Re: OT: Arapaho language writeup in NY Times

Oh boy.   There comes a point (a few metres behind where you are now
standing) where sado-masochism crosses the line from fetish to perversion.

P.

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From: "J R" <tanuef@...>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 9:46 PM
To: <CONLANG@...>
Subject: Re: OT: Arapaho language writeup in NY Times

> Mesmells a good translation exercise....
>
> Josh
>
> On 10/17/08, Peter Collier <petecollier@...> wrote:
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>> From: "Matthew Turnbull" <ave.jor@...>
>> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 8:13 PM
>> To: <CONLANG@...>
>> Subject: Re: OT: Arapaho language writeup in NY Times
>>
>>> hold a chicken . . . ummm, what?
>>
>> I was a reference to Spitting Image's "Chicken Song" - must be a good
>> 20/25
>> years ago now, I guess (bleedin' Nora, now I feel old!).
>>
>>
>> Hold a chicken in the air
>> Stick a deckchair up your nose
>> Buy a jumbo jet
>> And then bury all your clothes
>> Paint your left knee green
>> Then extract your wisdom teeth
>> Form a string quartet
>> And pretend your name is Keith
>>
>> Skin yourself alive
>> Learn to speak Arapahoe
>> Climb inside a dog
>> And behead an Eskimo
>> Eat a Renault Four
>> Wear salami in your ears
>> Casserole your gran
>> Disembowel yourself with spears

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