pongito ergo sum = I stink therefore I am.
Apologies: I hadn't thought to check that "pong" wasn't a common US word. Which leads me again to a new thread I've been mulling over on "Usage/Ukage/Ausage etc" (Sorry CK, I couldn't quite see how to fit Zild into the pattern). This board throws up examples all the time of words in local use, but I was wondering about words and phrases which have opposite meanings, or meanings so different as to cause embarrassment (and therefore amusing to the onlooker ). I know of a few, but would like to hear of more.
Rod