[sw-l] New Website

[Sandy Fleming]

Hi Nancy!

That's great - to hear that I'm not living completely in my own little
fantasy world!  :)

I know it kind of spoils things if you try to explain a joke but for the
benefit of non-BSLers I thought I'd also explain about the little bit of
SignWriting in the bottom right-hand corner above the octopus's head.

It's the BSL two-handed fingerspelling letter "Z". The multiple contact
symbols show (in a kind of rule-bending way) a slang sign from BSL meaning
"asleep" or "stacking zee's" as Americans sometimes say  ;)

http://bsltext.org/cartoons/dods.asp

Sandy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> [mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of Nancy Emery
> Sent: 26 October 2004 00:28
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] New Website
>
>
> Sandy,
>
> I thought the octopus joke was very cool and so is the haiku.  I didn't
> recognize the sign, but I got that if you're an octopus you can sign to
> yourself a whole flock of birds.
>
> Nancy Emery
>
> on 10/25/04 7:48 AM, Sandy Fleming at sandy at FLEIMIN.DEMON.CO.UK wrote:
> > I hope someone understood the octopus joke. If not, never mind,
> it'll maybe
> > inspire someone else to do better!
>
>
>