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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 08:13 PM
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Do you know about the Coriolanus effect? It means that, in the Southern hemisphere,
Shakespeare has to be performed upside down. Weird, huh?
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 08:24 PM
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1. And in Russian novels, everyone ends up happier and joyful
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 09:19 PM
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2. No, I believe that's the Tolstoyolus Effect. n/t
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:44 PM
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8. You're right, of course. I was totally not paying attention to your OP's actual words
I just assumed you used the right word, but I see that you used instead a Shakespeare title, and made a brilliantly wonderful joke out of it.

My joke would have been funnier if I'd realized it, and use "Tolstoyolus Effect" myself.

Oh, well.
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:18 PM
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3. in soviet novels
YOU depress the CHARACTERS!
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:20 PM
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4. I think it is the
Coriolis Effect...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect

Unless we are talking about something else entirely you do to your anus...
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:22 PM
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5. Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare's tragedies.
:P
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:23 PM
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6. well, there goes my snark...
:embarassed:
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:25 PM
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7. LOL
I was about to post something hilarious, but I was pre-empted!
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