tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post3992335043796849071..comments2024-03-12T18:40:26.776+11:00Comments on Ἡλληνιστεύκοντος: GTAGE: Screw you and your car jack!opoudjishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106433476518749382noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-80630690478785131372010-03-31T06:40:20.131+11:002010-03-31T06:40:20.131+11:00I really have to say, I used to keep crickets in c...I really have to say, I used to keep crickets in cute little Japanese cages, and I never saw one whose legs looked like a car jack. I have used car jacks on three continents, so I feel entitled to express myself here.Nauplionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-12671168682993721872010-03-31T03:30:13.276+11:002010-03-31T03:30:13.276+11:00The Turkish is sıçdırmak ( ﺼﭽﺩﺭﻣﻕ ) with a chim,...The Turkish is sıçdırmak ( ﺼﭽﺩﺭﻣﻕ ) with a chim, rather than a kha, and it gets "shit" right back into the context. Actually, it is a causative form and means "to make (someone? / yourself?) shit" and it appears to be imperative. My guess is that "ey sıçdır" is all Turkish and means "Go take a shit."Pierre MacKayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06539446944905632852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-61596002854913894992010-03-31T01:51:47.530+11:002010-03-31T01:51:47.530+11:00There is (inevitably, perhaps) a Jewish joke to th...There is (inevitably, perhaps) a Jewish joke to the same effect, though as far as I know the punchline has not become proverbial. There are of course many variations, and I have improvised this one rather than quoting it from a particular source:<br /><br />An older man and a younger man are sitting side by side on a train. The younger man asks "Can you tell me the time?"<br /><br />The older man thinks: Now why does he ask me the time? Is it because he truly wants to know, or because he wishes to have a conversation with me? Clearly the latter. Why? What good is the time to a man on the train? When he gets to his stop, he gets there. Then he can find out what time it is and act accordingly. So, he only wishes to make conversation with me. To what purpose? Clearly, he is a young fellow and therefore unmarried. Unmarried fellows are interested in young women, and when he sees me he naturally assumes that I am a husband and a father, perhaps even the father of a daughter. And this is true! I <i>am</i> the father of a daughter. So by starting a conversation with me, he hopes to find out whether I have a daughter or not. And suppose he finds out that I have one, what then? He will speak flatteringly to me, so that I will think him a fine young man. Perhaps I will even invite him to my house. And if I do invite him to my house, well, he is a handsome young fellow, and naturally my daughter will fall in love with him. And then of course wedding bells will follow, a wedding which <i>I</i> will have to pay for, and I will be stuck with a worthless son-in-law for the rest of my life.... "Drop dead!" [lit. "Go in the ground!"]<br /><br />The younger man recoils. "Why 'drop dead'?"<br /><br />The older man snarls, "Because, you <i>paskudnyak</i> [maximally insulting epithet], I am <i>not</i> going to marry my only daughter to a man who can't even afford a watch."John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.com