Erkjo ne szlepp statsik ne var ne vladrobzko ne?

[ciroccoj]

(literally, 'is it not that the water is not not undrinkable?')

This is one hell of a writing break: MOLVANIA – a land untouched by modern dentistry.

Warning: the home page has music. Gorgeous, uplifting Western European music that will keep you hitting Reload over and over so that you can fully enjoy its folkloric majesty time and time again. Those of you who have whiled away the hours listening to the haunting beauty of the pennywhistle solo from The Arrogant Worms' Gaelic Song will know of what I speak.

Some highlights from the site:

• Language: Molvanian is a difficult language to speak, let alone master. There are four genders: male, female, neutral, and the collective noun for cheeses, which occupies a nominative sub-section of its very own.
  
  
• History: The Middle Ages saw Molvania invaded by numerous armies, including the Goths, Tatars, Turks, Huns, Balts, Lombards and even a surprisingly militant band of Spanish nuns, before Molvania's first king and patron saint Fyodor I, set about unifying his country by killing off as many of its citizens as he could.
  
  Molvania experienced a brief flowering of Renaissance culture, with some historians putting the actual period down to about three weeks towards the end of 1503.
  
  In 1541 a peasant army attempted to turn on the landowners but the uprising was suppressed and the leader Gyidor Dvokic burned alive on a red-hot iron spike, giving rise to the modern Molvanian witticism 'eich zdern clakka yastenhach!' (literally 'my rectum feels as if a great heat is being applied')
  
  
• Religion: St Fyodor was born in 1507 to a family of wealthy Molvanian landowners. At the age of just four he amazed church elders by drinking an entire vat of communion wine. It was a religious feat he was to repeat many times later in life.
  
  
• National Anthem: No, I can't. I'm laughing so hard I'm going to wake up the children. Just trust me, go here.

Comments

[batita.livejournal.com]

ok, but did you see the baptismal font with the 'Saint Strips' sculpture? Man... what a hysterical time-suck!

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

ok, but did you see the baptismal font with the 'Saint Strips' sculpture?
Oh I know! Breathtaking, isn't it?

Personally I can't decide whether my favourite picture is the one captioned "Sjerezo's town square is no longer used for military parades. It does, however, continue to attract lunatics," or the one that says "Lutenblad: where old world charm meets concrete."