Useful Unicode Hieroglyphics

With a revised draft for extended Unicode hieroglyphs doing the rounds, let’s take the time to examine some of the more interesting and useful symbols currently available when writing in ancient Egyptian…

Cobra Defending a Lemon

13198 – Cobra Defending a Lemon

Ducks going for a Ride

13179 – Ducks going for a Ride

Man installing RAM

13028 – Man installing RAM

UFO with Oar

13099 – UFO with Oar

Awkward Moment Hippo

13101 – Awkward Moment Hippo

Hawk on Fruit Bowl

13148 – Hawk on a Fruit Bowl

Trombone

131BB – Trombone

Cobra Choir

13261 – Cobra Choir

Steve Buscemi

1308F – Steve Buscemi

Crocodile Sunbathing

1318B – Crocodile Sunbathing

Crocodile Bed Time

1318D – Crocodile Bed Time

Awesome Walking Stick

13109 – Awesome Walking Stick

My Coffee Table is Getting Away!

1321D – My Coffee Table is Getting Away!

Artillery Shell

13276 – Artillery Shell

Warning - Cymbal Secured by Cobra

131F4 – Warning – Cymbal Secured by Cobra

Snoopy

130E3 – Snoopy

Croquet Cancelled due to Slugs

132F5 – Croquet Cancelled due to Slugs

Slugs have Captured the Vatican

1335A – Slugs have Captured the Vatican

Awesome Toboggan

13344 – Awesome Toboggan

Chubby Plesiosaur

1317E – Chubby Plesiosaur

IKEA Home Decor Department

13262 – IKEA Home Decor Department

Hangover from Hell

1317D – Hangover from Hell

Abaddon the Despoiler, Warmaster of Chaos

1306F – Abaddon the Despoiler, Warmaster of Chaos

Seneb Dropped Acid Again

1314B – Seneb Dropped Acid Again

He Returns!

I was recently reminded of Alsace’s greatest contribution to black metal music, the amazing Fadades. He inhabits a castle! He builds lasers! He wears knives! No one can figure out whether he’s parodying the genre or is terrifyingly serious!

In perusing the Fadadian oeuvre I stumbled across a – I do hesitate to use the word ‘song’ but let’s go with it – a song I hadn’t heard before. So of course I jumped right in.

The piece in question sees our hero returning to the same rich vein of landing his spaceship in Egypt and being annoyed. This time around he’s considering the “nightmare” of Ramses rather than his “rage”, and he’s managed to convert his spaceship into 3 dimensions! Well done Fadades!

He also discovers a domed city –  Ramses was terrified of domes you know…

Anyway, as is traditional I’ve decided to attempt a transcription of what he’s on about. I think he’s trying to organise catering for a party and it’s not going well…

Ain’t jealous!
Just a word,
Not jealous!
Seat yourselves,

Suey the yeah yeah yeah I guess!
Suey the yeah yeah yeah I guess!

Excellent guests,
Yet faith,
Eggs!
Yet faith,

Ah!
Delicious!
Humongeous!
You seated at us!

Eggs for guests!
Lettuce!
Eggs!
Lettuce!

Need to get suggestions for keggers!
Tomorrow’s furious sun-a-rise!
Need-a sauce!
Like some samboria say…
This is stupid, lists of guests,
Really need a secure swain!
Stupidest suggest, oy!
Get us!

Suey the yeah yeah yeah I guess!
Suey the yeah yeah yeah I guess!
Suey the yeah yeah yeah I guess!

The Ice of FADADES

Here we see another performance from the incomparable, castle-dwelling, laser-building, French master of metal, FADADES!!

Unlike some of his other more ‘abstract’ videos, this one has an easily comprehensible plot. The alien FADADES comes to Earth and lands his spaceship in Egypt. Here he discovers that his precious ice keeps melting in the desert heat. This angers him, and as lightning flashes across the sky (no doubt a result of the disturbance caused by his ship plunging through the atmosphere) he curses. “BAD ICE!! DIE ICE!!” he shrieks over and over again.

Hey, it makes as much sense as anything else…

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