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|  Message 3767  |
|  Paul Quinn to Ardith Hinton  |
|  Anecdotes about translators  |
|  03 Oct 21 18:46:18  |
 TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46 MSGID: 3:640/1384 2c21561b REPLY: 1:153/716.0 15914940 TZUTC: 1000 Hi! Ardith, On 02 Oct 2021, Ardith Hinton said the following... AH> PQ> Down here, a 'Twit' was long-known as a "pregnant goldfish". AH> According to Uncle Google, the idea that a "pregnant goldfish" AH> may be referred to as a "twit" is an urban legend from Australia. It's harkening back to the misty memory of long-gone youth. I did think, later, that it was a suggestive Monty Python line but cannot find any reference. AH> I cited THE FREE DICTIONARY in this case because it includes I did see that much later. Nice try. ;) Cheers, Paul. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/32) * Origin: Quinn's Rock - stuck in a Linux VM, again! (3:640/1384) SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 19/10 30/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 123/131 SEEN-BY: 129/305 154/10 203/0 218/700 221/0 1 6 360 226/30 227/114 SEEN-BY: 227/702 229/424 426 664 700 240/1120 5832 249/206 317 261/38 SEEN-BY: 280/5003 282/1038 301/0 1 101 113 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 SEEN-BY: 423/81 460/58 640/1138 1321 1384 712/848 920/1 3634/12 5020/1042 SEEN-BY: 5058/104 PATH: 640/1384 221/1 301/1 229/426 |
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