In article >,
"Lefty" > wrote:

> > >
> > Lefty, if it is a play on words, I just don't get it -- please 'splain.
> Who
> > thinks it's hilarious, who gets it -- please! I don't understand.
> > (One doesn't bow the body, just the head.)
> > Dee Dee
>
> The "hilarious" part is tongue-in-cheek :-)
> When the poster from UK mistook the (American) Indian for one from Delhi, I
> proposed thranslating the joke into that culture. So Om offered "curried" as
> the response instead of "scrambled", then I needed a greeting that the North
> American Indian "HOW" would translete to, that would elicit that response.
> You said "Nanamste" with hands in prayer bowed a little was the greeting.
> The stereotype for the American Indian would be his hand held up in a
> "stop"-like gesture when saying "HOW". The guy can stay seated in the canoe
> if he only bows his head, otherwise we would have to put him on a raft,
> which is OK too because they have been translated from "the lake" to "the
> Ganges". Simple, right?
>
> There is no way that it turns out to be funny. It is a monument to
> pointlessness, a glorious nonsense, a literary death-throe. Damn I'm good.
> :-)
> --
> Lefty

<snicker>
You did say that you were a dedicated nonsense-ist (or something like
that) several posts back.

It's why you enjoy Mark Twain as much as I do.

I've _got_ to get some literature from Ben Franklin.
I've heard he's every bit as good...
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson