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Dr.Moose1
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since 1999-09-05

Posts 3448
Bewilderment , USA

0 posted 2010-07-14 03:10 PM

In Spain it's "asno de caballos"
a name that's kind of hard to swallow.
The French will say "cul de chevaux"
the Czechs say "kone zadec" though.
The Dutch pronounce it "paarden kont"
it's all the same despite the font.
In German "Pfede Esel's" said,
Swahili, "farisi punda" instead.
the Irish say "capall asal"
There're some I can't translate at all.
Italians say "cavalli culo"
I bet there're even some that you know.
It's "kone marape" in Bulgarian,
I'm not sure what in Rastafarian.
Such names describe their teeming masses
these "equine rear-ends" are what passes
for our leaders, sad to say
or to put it one more way...
Performance of ones' civic duty
oft' results in horse patootie!

[This message has been edited by Dr.Moose1 (07-16-2010 08:20 AM).]

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

1 posted 2010-07-14 08:38 PM

As always, much more elegant than my thoughts.

I love ya, Doc. Even more than I love Dr. House, Dr. Oz and Dr. Doolittle.

Dr.Moose1
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since 1999-09-05

Posts 3448
Bewilderment , USA

2 posted 2010-07-15 06:46 AM

serenity,
Thank you dear lady. Just trying to further my education, you never know when being able
to identify something/ someone in 10 different languages might come in handy, lol. Oh, and I've got a confession to make,
I still pop in from time to time to see what you're up to poetically.
Doc

Balladeer

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since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

3 posted 2010-07-15 08:32 AM

You forgot one, Doc. In Pipanese, we simply say Toerag.

Dr.Moose1
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since 1999-09-05

Posts 3448
Bewilderment , USA

4 posted 2010-07-15 10:40 AM

Balladeer,
Lol, I stand corrected, make that eleven.
Doc

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2010-07-15 06:30 PM

Very clever, Doc.
ida

Dr.Moose1
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since 1999-09-05

Posts 3448
Bewilderment , USA

6 posted 2010-07-16 08:25 AM

Ida,
Thank you, I wasn't really sure if this one wasn't pushing the limits of acceptability in a "g" forum or not, but apparently because it was educational it was allowed, lol.
Doc

easy1
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since 2010-05-22

Posts 1209
Southeastern USA

7 posted 2010-07-17 02:43 PM

Clever and humorous---and I appreciate the rhyming in many languages.

"Few would find it a source of frolic,
toodling behind a horse with the colic."

Dr.Moose1
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since 1999-09-05

Posts 3448
Bewilderment , USA

8 posted 2010-07-18 08:23 AM

easy1,
Thank you & lol @ your reply.
Doc

Andrew Scott
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since 1999-06-24

Posts 2558
Redlands,CA,USA

9 posted 2010-07-30 01:28 AM

Ha! Back to the top where you belong.

"We'll chase them like rats across the tundra."

Dr.Moose1
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since 1999-09-05

Posts 3448
Bewilderment , USA

10 posted 2010-07-30 09:56 PM

Andrew,
Thank you m'friend, just an observation that certain things are universal.
Doc

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