{"id":12042,"date":"2023-08-12T16:51:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T20:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12042"},"modified":"2023-08-12T16:51:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T20:51:58","slug":"yes-there-were-hot-days-and-short-tempers-a-century-ago-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12042","title":{"rendered":"Yes, there were hot days and short tempers a century ago, too"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a Hungarian-language letter, an official note from 120 years ago that has been making the rounds on the Hungarian Interwebs for many years already. As far as I know, the letter is real, penned by a well-known Hungarian scholar, also known for his poetry. Below is my translation: watch it, the language is more than a little, hmmm, rough.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

506\/1903<\/p>\n

To the esteemed Public Works Office
\nin the town of Pecs<\/p>\n

Concerning your official transcript 1090\/1903 that arrived with yesterday’s mail, in which you ask what needs to be done with the old spurs that were found in the outskirts of the village Magyarbeki? With official respect, my answer is that you gentlemen should fuck your spurs, because in this heat of 35\u00b0 Reaumur, we cannot deal with such shit.<\/p>\n

Aug 18, 1903, Budapest.<\/p>\n

With all due respect,
\nHorsedick up your ass
\nDr. Laszlo Rethy
\nDeputy Director, Hungarian National Museum, Department of Coins and Antiquities<\/p>\n

To the Hungarian Royal Public Works Office of District XIV, Pecs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ahem. For what it’s worth, 35\u00b0R is 44\u00b0C or about 111\u00b0F.<\/p>\n

In other words: damn hot.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a Hungarian-language letter, an official note from 120 years ago that has been making the rounds on the Hungarian Interwebs for many years already. As far as I know, the letter is real, penned by a well-known Hungarian scholar, also known for his poetry. Below is my translation: watch it, the language is more […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,59,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humor","category-hungary","category-25-id","category-59-id","category-21-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12042"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12049,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions\/12049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}