|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511 |
I have this screaming urge to point out that Faldage's faux insult to tsuwm is straight out of Rostand (1897).
no apologies to Steve Martin
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli,
"I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or
of some vile disease". Disraeli replied, "That all
depends upon whether I embrace your principles or your
mistress".
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 2,605
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 2,605 |
The following is attributed to Sam Rayburn, I believe:
A congressman entered a restaurant and, seeing his opponent seated at lunch, walked up behind him. "Sam," he said, putting his hand on the seated gent's bald head, "your head is as smooth as my wife's ass." Sam rubbed his own head for a second, and replied with a glint in his eye, "Why, so it is, Joe; so it is."
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 10,542
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 10,542 |
>Faldage's faux insult to tsuwm oh, thanks alot[sic], ASp, for opening up a passage for yet another shot in the shnoz from the drip. http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 2,605
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 2,605 |
Excuse me, but all insults concerning oversize proboscises should properly be directed at me.  [mutter-mutter. toucan play that game, you know ...]
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 688
addict
|
|
addict
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 688 |
Hey, Keiva! Has that bluebird family come back to resume residence in your shnoz...I mean yard?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 688
addict
|
|
addict
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 688 |
Hey, Maxie! May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 3,409
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 3,409 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 866
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 866 |
> During cultural revolution in PRC a big insult was son of a dog
When I first learnt construction site Italian, I was struck by the frequent use of dio cani (dog god) to insult everybody and everything. If used in English the intended recipient would probably fall about the place laughing!
Mind you, the same education gave me "gutso" and "figa" (sp?? - never got spelling lessons on site). I've used these a million times since and felt greatly satisfied each time. And no I won't provide a translation. (Apologies to our resident Latins).
stales
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
dio cani
Then there was the time during my brief foray at French in a semiformal setting when a classmate called me a radio network.
His pronunciation wasn't any too good.
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,915
Posts229,845
Members9,197
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
611
guests, and
3
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
