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Dumb Cuneiform: Memorialize Your Tweets in Cuneiform

posted by CoolHand on Monday November 09 2015, @04:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the making-sure-future-generations-remember-us-properly dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

You send us your most ephemeral and worthless communications, and we'll carefully transcribe them into the most long-lasting medium known to man - a clay tablet.
...
        Here's how it works:
        Just send us a tweet or text (use the text field in the order form)
        We'll carefully translate it into cuneiform
        We'll stamp it on an actual clay tablet
        and mail it to you.

Favorite jokes? Amazing pickup lines? Your 2-star review of last summer's blockbuster?
KEEP IT FOREVER.

I dunno, the choice of Old Persian is rather questionable when everyone knows the lingua franca was Akkadian, and looking at the tablets it's pretty clear they were using a sharpened chopstick rather than reeds harvested from the banks of the Euphrates. In sum: FAIL.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by jdavidb on Monday November 09 2015, @06:53PM

    by jdavidb (5690) on Monday November 09 2015, @06:53PM (#260854) Homepage Journal
    http://web.archive.org/web/20080217223452/http://www.zug.com/pranks/tattoo/ [archive.org]
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by The Archon V2.0 on Monday November 09 2015, @07:10PM

    by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Monday November 09 2015, @07:10PM (#260861)

    The hell of it is, the tat was probably LESS coherent than "bean curd".

    http://hanzismatter.blogspot.ca/2006/08/gibberish-asian-font-mystery-solved.html [blogspot.ca]

    (See also literally the rest of that site, half the entries refer back to the font in this one.)

    Then again, maybe she's like the guy who went for a tattoo that said "Strong" and got one that said "Mexican".

  • (Score: 1) by angelosphere on Tuesday November 10 2015, @08:37PM

    by angelosphere (5088) on Tuesday November 10 2015, @08:37PM (#261421)

    It is actually not funny at all.

    I mean, some guy made up a story about a girls Chinese tattoo signs.

    There is a photo of her on the first page with the tattoo.

    She claims it means: inner peace.
    He convinces here, it means some bullshit from a Chinese restaurant menu.

    Erm ... the two signs mean: Woman, and Strength.

    That is a made up story inside of a made up story ... does not make an sense to me.