The last fix for a "All Shook Up" 33
Jarratt RMA
robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com
Tue Oct 27 14:39:22 CDT 2015
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> On 27 October 2015 at 19:30 Peter Cetinski <pete at pski.net> wrote:
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> > 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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>
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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