(CNN)The question was about UFOs in the skies over Wales. The answer came in an alien tongue.
"jang vIDa je due luq. ach ghotvam'e' QI'yaH devolve qaS," was the reply, according to British media.
Time to panic? Call out the nukes to bring down the invading motherships?
Nah, it was apparently just a bit of good-natured ribbing by a liberal Welsh Labour government bemused by an out-of-the-blue inquiry from a conservative politician.
The government was using Klingon, the language of the race of warlike aliens of the same name on the "Star Trek" television series and movies. Fans have expanded the dialect into a full-fledged language with its own grammar and spelling rules.
According to the BBC and other outlets, Welsh politician Darren Millar recently passed along a few questions from a constituent about UFOs to the government minister responsible for science.
What he received in return seemed unintelligible but, properly translated, reportedly says, "The minister will reply in due course. However this is a non-devolved matter."
Further translated: We'll get back to you, but this is really a question you should ask the central government in London.
Millar, who spends most of his time on British health care as shadow health minister for the conservative Tories, took the response in stride.
"I've always suspected that Labour ministers came from another planet. This response confirms it," the BBC quoted him as saying.
Whatever the motive, the Welsh government scored "serious geek points" with the move, Twitter user @gkenvidal posted Monday.
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Ha, my old Professor is the Space Ambassador for Wales. He feels rather put out that he didn't get consulted about this.
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Yeah, I know this happened in Wales, CNN. So where's the Klingon?(CNN)The question was about UFOs in the skies over Wales. The answer came in an alien tongue.
"jang vIDa je due luq. ach ghotvam'e' QI'yaH devolve qaS," was the reply, according to British media.
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Look at it - it has vowels, it can't possibly be Welsh!
No, seriously - I'm beginning to like Wales. It's where Dr Who comes from these days, people in the government speak Klingon, and Welsh men are seriously yummy looking.
I'm sure there's a downside somewhere, but it's clearly not visible from across the Pond.
No, seriously - I'm beginning to like Wales. It's where Dr Who comes from these days, people in the government speak Klingon, and Welsh men are seriously yummy looking.
I'm sure there's a downside somewhere, but it's clearly not visible from across the Pond.
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I've heard it's where all the sheep get sodomized.Broomstick wrote:I'm sure there's a downside somewhere, but it's clearly not visible from across the Pond.
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The weather from what I can remember of my time there, its just as well Irelands there or it would get rain 365 days of the year, as it is its only 300 or so.Broomstick wrote:Look at it - it has vowels, it can't possibly be Welsh!
No, seriously - I'm beginning to like Wales. It's where Dr Who comes from these days, people in the government speak Klingon, and Welsh men are seriously yummy looking.
I'm sure there's a downside somewhere, but it's clearly not visible from across the Pond.
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I was listening to NPR this morning and one of the other politicians said see I told you my coworkers were aliens.
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I thought that was Scotland.aerius wrote:I've heard it's where all the sheep get sodomized.Broomstick wrote:I'm sure there's a downside somewhere, but it's clearly not visible from across the Pond.
I think the downside of Wales is supposed to be the coal mines...?
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Re: Wales goverment answer UFO query with Klingon
the main disadvantage would be living in a mining terrace house between Eternal Freedom and Me
There's not much in the way of sheep anymore, the weather is often wet (it never really gets properly cold which I miss). The coal mines are largely shut, leaving impoverished communities throughout the mountains. They're still in mourning.
Poverty and crap connections outside of the Cardiff area are probably the biggest issues Wales has. It's a nice place.
There's not much in the way of sheep anymore, the weather is often wet (it never really gets properly cold which I miss). The coal mines are largely shut, leaving impoverished communities throughout the mountains. They're still in mourning.
Poverty and crap connections outside of the Cardiff area are probably the biggest issues Wales has. It's a nice place.
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I object, I don't live in a mining terrace house! I have a very nice flat in an old synagogue.madd0ct0r wrote:the main disadvantage would be living in a mining terrace house between Eternal Freedom and Me
There's not much in the way of sheep anymore, the weather is often wet (it never really gets properly cold which I miss). The coal mines are largely shut, leaving impoverished communities throughout the mountains. They're still in mourning.
Poverty and crap connections outside of the Cardiff area are probably the biggest issues Wales has. It's a nice place.
But yeah, major downsides are fuck all work, poor connections outside Cardiff and (especially int he valleys area where I am) whole communities that just sit around and wait to die.
No, seriously, there's a place about six miles north of me that I went to once in my brief stint doing door-to-door sales. It's known as "the place people go to die."
And then you have the weather, which can go from "glorious sunshine" to "apocalyptic rain" in about ten minutes.
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Sounds sort of like where I live, except instead of "apocalyptic rain" we get tornadoes.
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In that case I can cross "American midwest" off my list of places to see, if it's that similar to Wales.
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Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
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Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
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Hey, we have TWO kinds of scenery: cornfields or soybean fields! (Further west, it's either wheatfields or soybean fields)
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I'm astonished. I never imagined a place more dull-looking than Lincolnshire was.
Baltar: "I don't want to miss a moment of the last Battlestar's destruction!"
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
Re: Wales goverment answer UFO query with Klingon
IMO biggest downside is that not many people even know what Wales is? I've had to explain to quite a few people that the Prince of Wales is a prince of a country, and not the Prince of Whales. Though the ladder would be pretty cool because that would mean Aquaman could have a sidekick.
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I'll have to post a video of the drive up the up to Rassau. I'm humming lord of the rings the whole way, each time.Broomstick wrote:Hey, we have TWO kinds of scenery: cornfields or soybean fields! (Further west, it's either wheatfields or soybean fields)
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Yeah its quite complicated really. Though the idea of Prince Charles riding a whale into battle is quite amusing (IIRC, he has actually ridden a whale before, which is amusing, though I think it was actually a killer whale, which are technically dolphins, so I dunno and now my head hurts).Tribble wrote:IMO biggest downside is that not many people even know what Wales is? I've had to explain to quite a few people that the Prince of Wales is a prince of a country, and not the Prince of Whales. Though the ladder would be pretty cool because that would mean Aquaman could have a sidekick.
The other fun thing to explain to people is that Wales is not a country, but a semi-devolved principality within England, the ruling title of which is traditionally granted to the Sovereign's heir. It doesn't automaticaly make you a Prince or Princess of the UK, which I find myself explaining everytime someone brings up "Princess Diana" when she was technically (before the divorce anyways) "HRH Diana, Princess of Wales." Picky, yes, but it's important, damnit.
Baltar: "I don't want to miss a moment of the last Battlestar's destruction!"
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
Re: Wales goverment answer UFO query with Klingon
Oh, one other thing I can think of is that damn bridge. I'm sure you know which one I'm talking about
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New Severn Bridge? Old Severn Bridge? Milau Viaduct for a total outside chance for the moronic?Tribble wrote:Oh, one other thing I can think of is that damn bridge. I'm sure you know which one I'm talking about
Baltar: "I don't want to miss a moment of the last Battlestar's destruction!"
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
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Or involving using Welshmen for target practice with a bow and arrow?
Pretty sure that law is not on the books anymore.
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Re: Wales goverment answer UFO query with Klingon
The one where you have to pay to get into Wales. Really annoying. That's Severn bridge right? I remember someone wrote a poem about it, but I can't remember it off the top of my head lol.New Severn Bridge? Old Severn Bridge? Milau Viaduct for a total outside chance for the moronic?
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2nd Seven Crossing?Eternal_Freedom wrote:New Severn Bridge? Old Severn Bridge? Milau Viaduct for a total outside chance for the moronic?Tribble wrote:Oh, one other thing I can think of is that damn bridge. I'm sure you know which one I'm talking about
Ancient modernist bridge?
Devils Bridge?
Menai Bridge?
Brittania Bridge?
Aaron Brutes 1812 ?
Llangollen Canal?
Some of Newport's excellent bridge selction?
Newport Transporter bridge (3 in the world)
Carno Arch?
(that's a 2 lane road and river passing through it, largest in europe)
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Yup, New Severn Bridge, or Second Severn Crossing. They charge you on the way in so they get the money before you know what Wales is really like. If they tried to charge you for escaping they' be replacing the barriers every day from people ramming themTribble wrote:The one where you have to pay to get into Wales. Really annoying. That's Severn bridge right? I remember someone wrote a poem about it, but I can't remember it off the top of my head lol.New Severn Bridge? Old Severn Bridge? Milau Viaduct for a total outside chance for the moronic?
Baltar: "I don't want to miss a moment of the last Battlestar's destruction!"
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
Re: Wales goverment answer UFO query with Klingon
Fun fact: Washington State and Oregon are together about the size of the entire UK. Roughly half of that area is badlands and rolling wheat fields and nothing else. It takes 5 hours to cross driving basically straight across at 70 miles an hour, and there's nothing but badlands and wheat. There are almost no towns in that entire duration. Then you get to Northern Idaho, which is entirely mountains and trees. Once you cross the mountains between Montanna and Idaho though (another few hours), there's nothing but flatlands for days. That's why we call it the "great plain," and "flyover country," - it's something like 1/8th the size of Europe.Eternal_Freedom wrote:I'm astonished. I never imagined a place more dull-looking than Lincolnshire was.
It's weird how variegated and densely populated the UK is in comparison.
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