The Web's #1 Axe In My Head Page

June 15, 2004 3:38 PM

"Oh my god! There's an axe in my head"
posted by anastasiav (21 comments total)

Tagalog: Ay Dios ko! May palakol sa ulo ko!

If only I had known about this on that fateful October night in Manila back in 1989, a lot of unpleasantness could have been avoided.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:45 PM on June 15, 2004

Shouldn't the ancient greek be "Oh my god! There's a fully grown woman in my head"?
posted by fvw at 3:45 PM on June 15, 2004 [1 favorite]

Great fun, thanks.
posted by quarantine at 3:47 PM on June 15, 2004

There's an axe in my head called "The Best of the Web"
posted by troutfishing at 3:52 PM on June 15, 2004

Oh, dear god. I thought that thing had gotten lost in the mists of time.

Sounds unlikely, but I actually know the guy that started that whole thing with a post to alt.gothic. See http://tinyurl.com/2t7yk for Yohaun's first mention of it, and don't ever tell me that University of Waterloo doesn't produce some weird characters.
posted by Dipsomaniac at 4:02 PM on June 15, 2004

surprisingly entertaining. minutes of diversion!
posted by Tryptophan-5ht at 4:07 PM on June 15, 2004

for some reason i am reminded of the i can eat glass project.
posted by jcruelty at 4:12 PM on June 15, 2004

Now that's funny: Deus Meus! Securis in capite meo est.
posted by josephtate at 4:31 PM on June 15, 2004

don't ever tell me that University of Waterloo doesn't produce some weird characters.

*snicker* This is almost tame by UW standards of weirdness.
posted by wannabehippie at 5:01 PM on June 15, 2004

"*snicker* This is almost tame by UW standards of weirdness."

Maybe so - but I've had 12 years of Yohaun total, and that was just the start of it...
posted by Dipsomaniac at 5:10 PM on June 15, 2004

[off-topic]UW grads? Me too! (albeit, not in a geeky field, but the arts).[/off-topic]

On-topic: I do remember seeing this before, but it's still darn cute. Thumbs-up.
posted by livii at 5:30 PM on June 15, 2004

Variations on the Death of Trotsky, anyone?
posted by jearbear at 5:34 PM on June 15, 2004

Absolutely, jearbear. Also, Philip Glass buys a loaf of bread.
posted by 40 Watt at 6:17 PM on June 15, 2004

Shouldn't the ancient greek be "Oh my god! There's a fully grown woman in my head"?

But seriously, their ancient Greek is shite (they include an incorrect form of a word that Plutarch cites as the Lydian word for an axe!). For the exclusive benefit of Metafilter:

ômoi tên kephalên androkmêti tini peplêgmai pelekei

cf. Soph. El. 1415, Aesch. Choeph. 889
posted by Zurishaddai at 6:37 PM on June 15, 2004

k:-0
posted by MarkO at 6:41 PM on June 15, 2004

Problems with the Danish, too; it's technically okay but not at all idiomatic. My native source prefers:

"Åh gud, jeg har en økse i hovedet" -or-
"Åh gud, der sidder en økse i hovedet på mig"
posted by yami_mcmoots at 7:09 PM on June 15, 2004

There may be axes in our heads, but our cognitive functions are greatly improved by our bilingual natures, or so I hear.
posted by weston at 8:08 PM on June 15, 2004

Metafilter: There may be axes in our heads.
posted by grateful at 8:21 PM on June 15, 2004

One to add to the Zompist Phrasebook, perhaps. But then, non, je suis passionné par l'humour racial crétin.
posted by RichLyon at 5:54 AM on June 16, 2004

There are a number of lousy versions there. I wrote to them when I discovered this site ages ago but never heard back or noticed any fixes based on what I'd said, so I figure they're in it for the fun rather than for accuracy. Either that or it's the axes in their heads.
posted by languagehat at 7:32 AM on June 16, 2004

The fun in this case is entirely dependent on the tension of the serious/absurdist dialectic; if seriousness doesn't hold up its end of the bargain the whole thing collapses into uninspired diversion. So I'd imagine it's the axes in their heads.
posted by yami_mcmoots at 8:25 PM on June 16, 2004