Re: OT: Arapaho language writeup in NY Times

Aww come on, you're just afraid! :-) I'll try it myself when I'm
computer-enabled again in a few weeks.

Josh

On 10/18/08, Peter Collier <petecollier@...> wrote:
> 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
>