wayman
Special user
England - Sunderland
589 Posts
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Posted: Nov 1, 2002 11:35 pm
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Can anyone translate this?
Si Signor der dego forte loreze inaro demainte loreze demis trux fulla cooza henza dux.
This was given to a language student who spent hours trying to decifer it.
Send answers on a postcard please....
Someone should be able to work this out...
.....think Irish....
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Dave Le Fevre
Inner circle
UK
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Posted: Nov 5, 2002 12:03 pm
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There they go, forty lorries in a row.
Something about lorries and trucks, full of hens and ducks.
But I can't decode all of it.
Dave
The Ozzy Osbourne of the 34x27
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Kathryn Novak
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PA
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Posted: Nov 5, 2002 12:36 pm
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Dave-that's more than the rest of us got!
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Daniel Meadows
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Manchester, UK
392 Posts
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Posted: Nov 5, 2002 04:53 pm
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I thought they were full of cows, hens and ducks but that was all I got.
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Peter Marucci
Inner circle
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Posted: Nov 5, 2002 05:41 pm
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Si Signor der dego forte loreze inaro demainte loreze demis trux fulla cooza henza dux.
Really can't get the first two words, but the rest is:
There they go, forty lorries in a row. Them ain't lorries, them is trucks, full of cows, and hens, and ducks.
So what is "si signor"?
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Kathryn Novak
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PA
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Posted: Nov 5, 2002 06:11 pm
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I speak very little Spanish but I believe that would be "Yes sir."
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Paul Jester
Special user
UK
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Posted: Nov 5, 2002 07:03 pm
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ahhh... to anyone as lost as I was, try reading it out loud!!!
Paul
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wayman
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England - Sunderland
589 Posts
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Posted: Nov 5, 2002 08:47 pm
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Well done Peter,
The "Si signor" is the only part that you dont decode.
Like jester_juggler said. try reading it out loud, WITH an Irish accent, or for the people in the UK with a Geordie accent.
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The Village Idiots
Elite user
Orlando
464 Posts
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Posted: Nov 12, 2002 02:32 pm
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(whining) I don't get it.
Someone please explain. What is this odd thing that is hurting my brain? I feel like I am 8 years old and have just read a Al Jaffee comic that I don't understand and can't wait till I grow up so that I can.
Sillily,
Will
Some are born idiots.
Some are made idiots.
Some have idiocy thrust upon them.
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Missing_Link
Elite user
442 Posts
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Posted: Nov 13, 2002 10:29 am
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Will - it's a phonetic gag. It looks for all the world like a profund quasi-latin verse, but when read out loud it is something quite different! As Wayman said, try it in an Irish accent
Also works in my Scottish accent.
Cheers
ML
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Sid Mayer
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Santa Fe, NM
656 Posts
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Posted: Nov 14, 2002 04:14 am
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Just for those of us who wonder if the term "anal retention" requires a hyphen,
"Si signor" is Italian rather than Spanish. The Spanish equivalent is "Si, senor".
It does mean "Yes, Sir (or Mister)" in both languages.
Sid
All the world's a stage ... and everybody on it is overacting.
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Rich Cowley
New user
Orange County, CA
53 Posts
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Posted: Dec 19, 2002 05:07 pm
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A disturbingly-similar gag. I have a engraved brass plaque above my desk which reads:
CIBILI CEUM GO
FORTIBUS ES INERO
NOBILI DEUS TRUX
VATIS INEM CAUSEN DUX
When people ask me what it means, I tell 'em to "say it out loud" (with a slight Pennsylvanis Dutch accent):
"See, Billy, see 'em go -
Forty buses in a row!
No, Billy, they is trucks!
What is in 'em? Cows and Ducks!"
The plaque is very stoic and proper, which makes it all the more fun.
Enjoy!
"Mankind's greatest problem is a perfection of means, and a confusion of ends." - Albert Einstein
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Payne
Inner circle
Seattle
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Posted: Dec 19, 2002 06:26 pm
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I had always seen it
Seville dar dego
Dousen busses invro
Nojo dems trux
Summmit cousin
Summit dix
translated
See Willy there they go
Thousand Buses in a row
No Joe thems trucks
Some with cows in
Some with ducks
"America's Foremost Satirical Magician" -- Jeff McBride.
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Sid Mayer
Special user
Santa Fe, NM
656 Posts
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Posted: Dec 22, 2002 12:24 am
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You may do penance, if you didn't get this, by repeating over and over
Owa Tagoo Siam
Or maybe not,
Sid
All the world's a stage ... and everybody on it is overacting.
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magician_carter
New user
79 Posts
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Posted: Feb 4, 2003 02:03 pm
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MR DUCKS
MR NOT
OSMR
CM WANGS
LIB
MR DUCKS
From an old southern post card.
See Below
Them are Ducks
Them are Not
Oh yes them are
See them Wings
Well I'll be
Them are ducks
Enjoy
Without Magic, Life is Boring.
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Good to here.