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#60863 03/14/02 03:51 PM
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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


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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".


#60865 03/14/02 04:28 PM
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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."


#60866 03/14/02 04:34 PM
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>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/

#60867 03/14/02 04:41 PM
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Excuse me, but all insults concerning oversize proboscises should properly be directed at me.

[mutter-mutter. toucan play that game, you know ...]


#60868 03/14/02 08:03 PM
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Hey, Keiva! Has that bluebird family come back to resume residence in your shnoz...I mean yard?


#60869 03/14/02 11:53 PM
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Hey, Maxie!
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits!


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#60871 03/15/02 01:43 PM
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> 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


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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.


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