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   From: walker@btinternet.com   
      
   "scally"  wrote in message   
   news:1172461967.028896.173760@8g2000cwh.googlegroups.com...   
   On 26 Feb, 03:22, Josiah Jenkins  wrote:   
   > Whilst perusing Usenet on 25 Feb 2007 17:13:24 -0800, I read these   
   > words from "scally"  :   
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   > >On 25 Feb, 23:31, The Highlander  wrote:   
   > >> On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:59:02 -0000, "Walker"    
   > >> wrote:   
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   > >> >Argthenaeus claimed in his Deipnosophists 13.603 that "The Celts, in   
   > >> >spite   
   > >> >of the fact that their women are very beautiful, prefer boys as sexual   
   > >> >partners. There are some of them who will regularly go to bed - on   
   > >> >those   
   > >> >animal skins of theirs - with a pair of lovers. (viz.,Wickipedia   
   > >> >Celt).   
   > >> >Why don't you poof-das get a life and shag women instead of young   
   > >> >boys?   
   > >> >Pourquoire vous hommens Celtic et bizarre ne vivrez comme les vrais   
   > >> >hommes   
   > >> >et foutez les fammes et ne foutez vous pas encore les jueune garcons?   
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   > >> What in the name of God is that last language - a Corsican dialect?   
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   > >> À Paris, dans ma jeunesse, on pouvait entendre des jeunes gamins qui   
   > >> crient, "Regardez! 'Y a trois pédales sur cette Spad là!"   
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   > >> (In Paris, in my young days you could hear street urchins shouting,   
   > >> "Look! There are three pedals on that bike there!"   
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   > >> Pédale, or PD (say Pay Day) is derived from pédéraste; a pervert; and   
   > >> was Paris slang for a homosexual. A Spad meant an old broken-down   
   > >> bike, so-named from the WW1 French aircraft.   
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   > >> All in the interests of educating our English monoglot friends...   
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   > >The only way to encourage an English person to learn another language   
   > >is to provide an incentive to do so. Can you think of a reason which   
   > >justifies the efforts involved?   
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   > Nah, in the words of Pink Floyd,   
   > 'We don't need no education'   
   > 'All in all I'm just another prick in the mall'   
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   For some unknown reason twisted Pink Floyd lyrics do not provide an   
   incentive great enough to encourage the English to embark upon a   
   foreign language course. Any other ideas?   
      
   Drag up as a tart!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)