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Re: CHAT: silly names

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Monday, March 26, 2001, 20:08
> En réponse à Dan Jones <feuchard@...>: > > > Christophe le Fraternitéen wrote: > > > > :)) Not bad to be named after such a nice concept after all (if only French > people had a true idea of what Fraternity is...). >
Hm. In Hungarian the most polite way to tell someone to sod off is to say "go to France". This dates to when there were French troops in Hungary after the first World War, and the commonly held belief was that their job was to spread Syphilis to the Hungarian population. -------ferko Ferenc Gy. Valoczy Suurt chugunikka peene ahjo suhe et toukka. Virtual Votia - Vaddjamaa Internetaza: http://www.geocities.com/uralica railways page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3976/ 25kV 50Hz: http://www.mp3.com/25kV50Hz

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