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#82158 10/03/02 07:58 AM
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No water for me. You know what WC Fields said about that

Indeed I do, nauntie, and it's true. OTOH, we fish wouldn't get very far without it. Cycling is thirsty work.




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a term meaning, literally "ten thousand years", with an implied "may you live" stuck in there somewhere

Makes the Polish toast Sto lat, "may you live a hundred years", look pretty tame.

I still like it, though, especially if you add an implied "..in one night" at the end.

Incidentally, I just read that "Banzai" is traditionally repeated three times. Surprisingly similar to our "Three Cheers" isn't it? With the difference that we don't actually repeat "hooray" three times.



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similar to our "Three Cheers"

Hip, hip!
   Hooray!

Hip, hip!
   Hooray!

Hip, hip!
   Hooray!



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Gets more difficult as you grow older and have to have replacement hips.


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This isn't exactly what you are looking for, but this site is fascinating! It takes your phrase and runs it through a series of translators back to English. FAR too much fun. I am going to start a separate thread so people can report what they put in and what they got out!

http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/



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