The last fix for a "All Shook Up" 33

Jarratt RMA robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com
Tue Oct 27 14:39:22 CDT 2015


> 
>     On 27 October 2015 at 19:30 Peter Cetinski <pete at pski.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     > 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.
> 

>


Not to worry, I don't watch many films, so even though I now know the name of
the film I still have no idea what the joke is :-)

Regards

Rob


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