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  1. 11-06-2004, 12:24 AM #1
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    Translating Gotama Symbols...

    Anyone versed in the language that's scribbled all over my skis? I'd like to know what's said on the sticks I'll be carrying around all winter.
    "Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never has been able to find those words." ~ Rilke
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    in the roman alphabet, they spell out

    "JONG"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lone Star
    in the roman alphabet, they spell out

    "JONG"
    from the Texan residing in Colorado. Wow.

    BURN!!!
    Last edited by Jumper Bones; 11-06-2004 at 02:21 AM.
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    got my 190s a couple days ago and would also like to know
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    I think it's the number of the warranty claims department...
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    gotama in engrish mean "big ski, weak sidewall"
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    Strikes me as being in the same alphabet as Sanskrit, on which I once had a better grip than I do now. Anyone have any pics of the text itself?
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    You majored in a ten-thousand year old dead language?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jumper Bones
    from the Texan residing in Colorado. Wow.

    BURN!!!

    hadn't heard that one before. yawn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lone Star
    hadn't heard that one before. yawn.
    it wasn't directed at you, but the originator of the thread. I was playing the third-person peanut gallery onlooker.

    I thought the JONGing was funny considering the source.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jumper Bones
    it wasn't directed at you, but the originator of the thread. I was playing the third-person peanut gallery onlooker.

    I thought the JONGing was funny considering the source.
    it's all good-- we Texans are a little dense.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by gonzo
    You majored in a ten-thousand year old dead language?
    Get the fuck out. Seriously, get the fuck out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ski Monkey
    Get the fuck out. Seriously, get the fuck out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gonzo
    You majored in a ten-thousand year old dead language?
    Somebody's got to manage the Jiffy Lubes, you know
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Jackamo
    I have latin, that's the best I can do
    I love that movie. As for the writing, I have no idea, but Gotama was Buddha's last name, so if you are looking for an origin of the writing, I'd look to the SE asia area.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Huck Finn
    You never know, it could make a comeback.

    Look at the Red Sox.
    ....Amazing things can happen!
    Just like COBOL Yeti, ya' never know when Sanskrit_skills will become HOT!

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    Not exactly a "major", but idle-curiosity-driven interest. I'm the Yeti, I'm from the abode of snows:

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    Due to the brutal texas 'joinging' I recieved above, I fell into a deep, morbid depression. Thus, lying on the floor in self-lacerating and sickening humiliation, by sheer force of logic, I knew I must redeem myself. I then embarked upon a quest for the truth... I went to the souce - that is - I went to Volkl. Here is their reply:

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    Justin,
    Unfortunately, I can't be the one to clear up that little mystery for
    you. It's sort of like the "33" on a Rolling Rock label...nobody
    really knows...
    Thanks for choosing our skis.
    Thank you for your interest in Volkl.

    Volkl Ski Guru
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    Alas, what am I to do? What - indeed, what - does this mean? Is the Volkl-guru of Buddah himself not able to furnish me with the knowlege for which I yearn? And what of the meaning of life? Should not the translation of a few symbols be, if the grand scope of things, a simple task for a god or prophet? Has truth and knowlege vanished. Oh - woe is me, jongee of texas and beholder of brittle-sidewall skis. Can no one lift this blanket of despair from mine eyes?
    "Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never has been able to find those words." ~ Rilke
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    Volkl doesn't even know what they put on their own skis?! The retardedness can't quite be quantified.
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    i got it!!! it says......
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeedashbo
    i got it!!! it says......
    Z-BO ownerizez BakerBoy!
    Is that BakerBoy you are kissing in your avatar?
    I have never been good with facts.
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    http://www.skiershop.com/catalog/ima...l_gotama_1.jpg

    See that red writing up toward the tip? That says "Volkl."

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