yes it does, and bawdy better than body, with a nod to Flaminus.

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Do you think that bawdy bodies were ubiquitous in anitquitous?

And yet, doesn't ribald humor sound so much more refined than dirty jokes?

Of course not. We have moved on the "the other white meat".

Real friends don't let friends hide bodies by themselves.

I have no trouble getting unsweetened iced tea in the South. However, it is true that down here "tea" is always sweetened, and one has to specify "unsweeteneed tea" in order to get this more refreshing beverage.

French. You insolent swine.

Uh, shouldn't that have been, "Français, vous porcs insolents!"



Et, bienvenue, versus!

"Pas tros de cochonnerie", said this little piggie, as he went wee, wee, wee all the way home.

BTW, i am probably not alone in associating "It was a dark and stormy night" with Snoopy.

Just watch out when the caucus turns raucous.

Wonderful pun Stargazer! Even more fun than machine translations are children's Mondgreens. An example from yesterday. My pre-schooler explained to me that Pharoh told Mose and the children of Israel, "You will be Spanish if you don't bow down to me". Also when Finding Nemo was still relat...

So not only does Taekwondo help keep me young ...

Perry: you didn't specify which youngster is you...
-gailr

Here is a hint. My ring name is Bald Eagle.

Thank you for that link. I highly recommend "A Certain Male Person and His Comrade" from the same link. I nearly hosed myself laughing!

While I was translating a medical text from Portuguese into English, it occurred to me there is not a correlation in ending between benign and malignant (the set normally used in medical contexts), cf. Portuguese/Spanish/Italian benigno x maligno, Catalan benigne x maligne, French bénin x malin, Ro...

Today's word comes from the Latin adjective arcanus "shut up, closed" hence "secret". The adjective is based on arca "a chest, box, safe", a good place for secrets. I'd never thought about that before. :) Brazilian dude Never, ever; or only arcanely thought about it? :...

I would just call them small allergens; but that's just me.

I recall writing in the old Agora how in Israel it seemed to me (based on the oral directions that I often received) that every place in the country would be found by going, "straight, straight, straight [an idiom for going straight for some distance] and then right". I later observed that...