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How Hard is Janka's Wood?

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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/19/08

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Wait, whuh? I thought this was Janka:

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DoctorEcks
11/19/08

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I dunno how hard it is, but PLEASE!...... let me be the first to volunteer to pound an 8-penny nail into it.
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DevilsAvocado
11/18/08

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I really hope he pronounces his surname in the Scandinavian/Germanic manner, with a 'y' sound instead of a 'j'. Because that would make him a 'yanka'. Which seems highly appropriate. There's a whole lot of yanking going on there.

Not to mention, it brings it even closer to one of my favourite colloquialisms, used in Australia to refer to someone who over-indulges in excessive self-pleasure, or more commonly, talks crap, blows his or her own trumpet, tries just a little bit too hard to impress others:

Wanker: aka tosser, puller of own pud.
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i'm a bottle
11/18/08

@DevilsAvocado: "Janka" is probably a German last name, derived from "Janker," which is somewhat related to the English word "jacket" and the name "Jack." In any case, it is a word that was invented by the peasantry for an item of clothing worn by peasants (acc. to the sources I looked at, it mentioned the peasant-jacket thing). So, it could very well be the case that "Janka" means "Jacketer," that is, it could be that at one time there was a member of the family who provided jackets to the other peasants, and one could easily imagine that they were low-quality jackets sold at hugely-inflated prices, and also that this ur-Janka was not very popular among the other peasants in whatever village in which he lived.
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BookishLookish
11/18/08

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A rubber plant is made of wood, ain't it? That's the picture I get. Like in a Fleischer Brothers cartoon.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/19/08

@BookishLookish: {Running to front row and elbowing other student out of desk to get as close to Bookish as she says things like "Fleischer Brothers Cartoon."}
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DevilsAvocado
11/18/08

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Oh, and on a hardness level? Veneer, or laminate. With plenty of splinters when it shatters prematurely.
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DevilsAvocado
11/18/08

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Oh, and Janka? By your age, presuming you've been making a concerted effort to bed ladies for many years, 146 encounters ain't all that impressive.

One a week for three years? Please. Now, go away.
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DevilsAvocado
11/18/08

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If a Janka falls in a forest with nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound?
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imjustskinny
11/18/08

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I wish I could remember where on aol I saw him, and he was actually giving relationship advice. Someone wrote in some dorky ass questions, and then either he or one of maybe three other "people" gave their opinion of the correct action to take. Priceless. I might have to search it out again.
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gladys_kravitz
11/18/08

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What has Paul been up to lately anyway? There haven't been any stories of his trying to lure unsuspecting women to his apartment in months.
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Unfun
11/18/08

@gladys_kravitz: Don't summon him, or his spirit. If you say his name three times, none of us are getting laid through at least Christmas.
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flossy
11/18/08

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I don't care to speculate on its hardness; I prefer to imagine it being savaged by a swarm of Asian Longhorned Beetles.
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es-ki-mo
11/18/08

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I can't see the forest for his knees.
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fileunder
11/18/08

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There must be a willing woman somewhere in town who'd volunteer to cut it in half to confirm his age.
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Unfun
11/18/08

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He's like that wood paneling on a early 80's station wagon. Is that even real wood? I think it's formica.
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Aaron Altman
11/18/08

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"Can you pull your pants back up? That logo is really distracting me."

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DevilsAvocado
11/18/08

@Aaron Altman:

And as for where one might insert the Allen key? Don't even go there.
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dado
11/18/08

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I pine for the day this ash-hole takes a knot to the head. If I ever see him on Mulberry Street, fir will be flying.
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