We can but hope.

I can just imagine a stirring rendition of:
"'obmaQ vIQach 'ej porghlIj 'ay'Du' vIchev."

The sheer elegance of "I wield an axe and separate your body parts." is surely breathtaking.

yIH!

There fixed it for you :)

Qo'noS -- tlhIngan Hol
Kronos -- DI'vI Hol
Same planet, different language.

Oh freddled gruntbuggly...

Of course it'll be "in universe" - that's what the title of the thing means!

Of course.

It will be a tasty part of the feast afterwards.

vIvupbe'

(I don't pity him...)

Speaking of him...
Khhhhaaaannnn!
Going on about klingon proverbs...

Damn right I would.

qeylIS DaghItlhchu'be'chugh vaj bIHegh

So'wI' yIchu'Ha'!
QInlIj vIjang

Hurgh'taH DISvam 'ej He'taH DISvam 'e' 'atlhqam rur, SoSwI' wutlh pa' rur DISvam

tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh'a'? nuqneH? Pity, if so a few of us could at least converse.

More likely not though. I voted more primitive as I reckon we're more likely to discover alien microbes closer to home, maybe ones utilising energy derived from volcanic sources. Of course we'll then kill them, or welcome them as our new overlords.

Might even sing songs about the great microbe hunt...

Nine millimetres later,SkyNet terminates itself.

TFIFY

Well you could wait six months for the service pack- ahem I mean spring version.

FWIW I've used Mandriva since 2005, and consider it a pretty solid distro, with many newbie friendly features as well as not dumbing things down or limiting the more advanced user too much.

You are crazy. Kneel before your corporate overlords and be happy!

I, for one welc... ahem. Not quite.

Back to the discussion, and there is one main missing point.

Recently, I did visit the only relevant rights-holder at his current address http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GeorgeOrwellGrave.jpg. Funnily enough he did not have much to say on the subject. Though I'm surprised (and glad), given how this country is going, and with certain corporations putting his own Ministry of Truth to shame, he was not rotating sufficiently rapidly for us to meet in person.

Exactly where are these royalty cheques going? I sure didn't see any wafting around his yard.

We didn't receive any messages and we definitely did not shoot this plump breasted pigeon.