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   Pedt to All   
   Sinogram   
   26 Mar 15 08:49:09   
   
   From: pedt@so.manygiggl.es   
      
   There's a lot of poetic Chinese idioms called chengyu that don't   
   actually mean what they appear to do - one of the idioms for sex (there   
   are a lot of them) literally translates to "Rainclouds over Wushan".   
      
   Another, for seeing someone naked, literally translates to "Saw colour   
   unvarnished"   
      
   Amused me that they are anagrams :-   
      
   Saw colour unvarnished. ~ Rainclouds over Wushan.   
      
   --   
   Pedt   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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