Amy's last name

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In an episode, Amy introduces her parents (I think) and goes on to say something about where she originated from. She said something about being part of the "Kappa Kappa Wongs" but what does that mean? How does it relate to her parents?

And speaking of Greek letters, is Mars U's Robot House part of the Greek system? And if so, what letters represent their organization?

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"Kappa Kappa Wong" came from "The Series Has Landed." 

Leela: Wait, Amy Wong, of the Mars Wongs?
Amy: Look, we're not as rich as everyone says we are.
L: Oh yeah?  What sorority do you belong to?
A: Kappa Kappa Wong

Amy's parent's weren't introduced until several episodes later.

The Greek letters for Robot House were Rho Rho Rho, I believe.

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Originally posted by Nixorbo:
The Greek letters for Robot House were Rho Rho Rho, I believe.

Epsilon Rho Rho

(ERR)

 

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Unfortunately Epsilon Rho Rho is actually EPP if you know your Greek alphabet like me 

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Piss off.

  No, just joking. What is Greek for "R" then?

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It's all Greek to me.

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Greek for "R" is the symbol "P"
EURO in greek sounds exactly the same but is spelt EYPΩ - Epsilon Upsilon Rho Omega (although to be honest I'm not entily sure whether it's Ωmega or Omicron)

Please don't take this as patronising, it's not intended to be.

Greek and Russian have some really f*cked up alphabets. 

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In that case, Epsilon Rho Rho spells ERR once translated into English, and not many robots are programme din Greek.

So... I'm right. End of story.

Anybody else wann' peice of me?

*looks around for a fight*

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And then a hero rose out of the dust on the early morn down south of El Paso.  He came to face his opponent the totalnerduk, and only one man would be left standing by dusk..... 

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That man was the streetsweeper, who looked at the dead hero with disgust, and the drunken totalnerduk pretending to swim in the dust with scorn. Both were tossed out into the desert, where the cactuses grow wild and tall.

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Originally posted by totalnerduk:
That man was the streetsweeper, who looked at the dead hero with disgust, and the drunken totalnerduk pretending to swim in the dust with scorn. Both were tossed out into the desert, where the cactuses grow wild and tall.

Mars Uni. was a great re-make of the classic movie "National Lampoon's Animal House", starring John Belushi, Stephen Furst (that Fat Space Ranger in Buzz Lightyear, Vir Cotto in Babylon 5).

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Originally posted by totalnerduk:
So... I'm right. End of story.

Anybody else wann' peice of me?

*looks around for a fight*

Nah, I never said you were wrong. 

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Originally posted by Zed 85:
Greek and Russian have some really f*cked up alphabets.   

Look at my craaaaazy æ ø and å!

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Originally posted by Ricky:
 Look at my craaaaazy æ ø and å!

Craaaaazy Norwegian is not half as Craaaaaaaaaaaazy as Russian and Greek I assure you 

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Originally posted by Zed 85:
 Craaaaazy Norwegian is not half as Craaaaaaaaaaaazy as Russian and Greek I assure you   

not even as crazy as crazy german äöüß?   

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look at my craaaaaaaazy å ä ö... whooooo!
well, maybe not that crazy...

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What about Hebrew? It's so crazy, you have to read it BACKWARDS!

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Hmm, all good points but, here's an example for you of where Russki tries to confuse westerners.

Вόдка - you should know what this is, is pronounced the same in every language (nearly) 
Any one guess what it is yet?

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Moscow Milkshake?

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mmm....moscow....

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Vodka! Yeah! Best kind of spirit ever.

Moscow would be "Mockba".

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Originally posted by totalnerduk:
 Epsilon Rho Rho

(ERR)

 

maybe i actually does mean ERR (in futurama offcourse, it REALLY means EPP like Zed 85 said)
like ... short for ERROR, meant as comedy, as a joke

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Originally posted by JoJo:
meant as comedy, as a joke

You don't say

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Oh. I get it. I get jokes.

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Originally posted by winna:
And then a hero rose out of the dust on the early morn down south of El Paso.  He came to face his opponent the totalnerduk, and only one man would be left standing by dusk..... 

Uoooh, what??? Did I hear Paso???

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Paso-cules? I love that guy!

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Вόдка - Vodka? Potato?

Epsilon Rho Rho:
ERR - short for error?
EPP - Parrallel port configuration type?

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Originally posted by Torquemada:
Вόдка - Vodka? Potato?

Epsilon Rho Rho:
ERR - short for error?
EPP - Parrallel port configuration type?

Teral was absolutely correct with Vodka, I should have said. 

Basically I think the writers over-looked that some weird guy (me,  or though I may not be the first) would point out mistakes they made with the greek language, either that or they didn't care. I think we don't need to worry about EPP anymore. 
ERR to me reminds me of that confused phrase "er....?" but they couldn't write ER because that would through up problems (not neccassarily legal ones) with that show. Plus do fraternities have to have three Greek letters in their names?

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Originally posted by Zed 85:
 Teral was absolutely correct with Vodka, I should have said.   

[Zoidberg]Hurray, I'm helping. I'm having a wonderfull time[/Zoidberg]

::Hides half a dozen vodka bottles under the mattress::

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Speaking of russian:
Сталин

That should bring back some nightmares... (if I spelled it correctly)

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Great gow of Glasgow! He's talking about Stalin!

Ok, there's no such thing as "gow", but there should be.

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Originally posted by Tor:
Speaking of russian:
Сталин

That should bring back some nightmares... (if I spelled it correctly)

"Sweet cow of Moscow!!!"   

I don't know why but all the Communist posters I've seen have it down as СТАΛИН, with a seemingly Greek Lambda( Λ ) instead of the more usual Л.

Just the same as with Lenin - ΛEHИН

I don't know why they did that.
Technically you're right though.


Just one thing, speaking of Russian, Stalin was from Georgia.   
   

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To ERR is Human. 

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Originally posted by Zed 85:
Technically you're right though.

Hooray! I know Russian! I'm the greatest!