The last fix for a "All Shook Up" 33
Chris Elmquist
chrise at pobox.com
Tue Oct 27 18:46:04 CDT 2015
On Tuesday (10/27/2015 at 03:30PM -0400), Peter Cetinski 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.
You better be careful here or you'll shoot your eye out.
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Chris Elmquist
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