Hwæt. HWÆT. HWÆT?!!!?

[tree_and_leaf]

Last.fm has just played me a really spectacularly silly filk of the German Pippi Longstocking song by a band called Rabenschrey called "Hej, wir sind Heiden" (Hey, we're heathen, and do what we like, and our god has two ravens, widdewiddewitt)

This is unfortunate, given that slumping on your desk and howling with laughter is not generally approved of in libraries, but at least it's lightened my mood while trying to decipher the abominably complex abbreviations in the Glossa Ordinaria, and cursing my anything but leet Latin skills...

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[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

I've come so dangerously close to howling with laughter in the Bodleian when illicitly watching Doctor Who. In theory, of course, what I do in the library is my own business, but there is some guilt associated with not doing Extremely Important Work. ;)

[tree_and_leaf]

there is some guilt associated with not doing Extremely Important Work. ;)

I know - though it doesn't really assist me in resisting temptation!

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

No, no, it doesn't. I wish it did -- and I do tend to draw the line when I'm working in Duke Humfrey and someone else is in the carrel with me (if I'm alone, all bets are off), but for the most part, I will occasionally give in to temptation.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Ooh, time for a rousing chorus of
Ich mache mir die Welt
wiediewiediewie sie mir gefaellt!

[tree_and_leaf]

Absolutely. Just not in the library!

[wuglet.livejournal.com]

Priceless!
I'm exhausted by workday, so this laugh is much appreciated. :)

[tree_and_leaf]

happy to help ;)

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

What are you looking up in the Glossa?

[tree_and_leaf]

The bits about Alexander the Great - 1 Macc 1; and Dan 8 and 11....

ETA: I didn't actually find anything to say about them, but I was able to work in the fact that I'd looked, which seemed at least to please my supervisor.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I must hunt that out.

[tree_and_leaf]

It's possibly the funniest German neo-pagan filk I have ever heard.

OK, I admit that it's also the only German neo-pagan filk I have ever heard, but it was pretty dashed hysterical.