The last fix for a "All Shook Up" 33
Peter Cetinski
pete at pski.net
Tue Oct 27 14:30:49 CDT 2015
> On Oct 27, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Jarratt RMA
> <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>> Of course FRAGILE means something...FRAGILE (pronounced ‘Fra-gee-lee') is
>>> Italian for “major award”. :)
>>
>> I suspect I am missing a joke here, but "fragile" in Italian has exactly the
>> same meaning as "fragile" in English. "Major award" in Italian is probably
>> something like "gran premio". Where is the joke I have missed?
>
> Movie reference: A Christmas Story.
>
> -ethan
Yeah, sorry, I just assumed everyone else has that movie memorized line by line.
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