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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (329750)12/16/2002 10:54:25 PM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
but I bet I could guess the meaning in less than a dozen tries. It's probably something like "Bese mi asno." Am I close?

You might be. I'll bet that if you stick with foreign phrases I don't know and I stick with foreign phrases you don't know, we'll never know whether you guess it in a dozen tries.

I was just trying to explain to you why those terms were usually used as insults by our right wing friends.

My explanation is that it's a version of the childhood game of "Your mother wears army boots"; followed by "Your mother wears a babushka"; followed by "Your mother wears army boots and a babushka". The game continues until either 1) a fist fight starts, 2) one of the children starts to cry or 3) one child throws one more insult and walks away [getting the last word in].

[The various insults change depending on the culture of your neighborhood.]

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