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Bootstrap wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 5:43 pm I'm going to catch a bus.
Wow, you must be fast. Might need a face mask for the fumes.
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Bootstrap wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 5:43 pm I'm going to catch a bus.
There are some very vulgar jokes about that in Spanish.

In Spain the verb "coger" (pronounced co-hair) means to catch, pick up, take ahold of, etc. So a Spaniard might use the verb "coger" to ask where to catch the bus.

In Mexico and Central America the verb "coger" is a vulgar term for having sex, equivalent to the F-word in English.

So the joke goes, a Spaniard visiting Mexico asks someone where to "coger" the bus and the Mexican looks at him curiously and answers: "El escape?" which means "the tailpipe?".
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Ken wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 6:00 pm
Bootstrap wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 5:43 pm I'm going to catch a bus.
There are some very vulgar jokes about that in Spanish.
When I was in Nicaragua, I was drinking a coffee when a bunch of young women came in and started giggling loudly about "soy latte". One of them went up to the barista, pointed to herself, and said, "soy latte!"

Not vulgar, but I thought it was funny.
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Fresh as a daisy.
Squiffy as 30 Billy goats (drunk).
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MaxPC wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:15 am
Squiffy as 30 Billy goats (drunk).
We would say "three sheets to the wind."
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One brick short of a load.

The elevator doesn't make it to the top floor.

He has a cuckoo that nests in his attic and sings. (This one is a German idiom, but I think it's funny.)
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One of the grandchildren uses "A french fry short of a happy meal."

Cockney rhyming slang is loaded with such interesting phrases, far too many to post here. If you have "time to kill", you may enjoy doing an internet search of it.
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steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:44 am That person doesn't have issues... they have a subscription!
Seen the other day: Please unsubscribe me. I don't want your issues.

By the way, every time I see this thread I think of a thread topic with one letter different. Maybe you could start it for us. :mrgreen:
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mike wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:43 am
steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:44 am That person doesn't have issues... they have a subscription!
Seen the other day: Please unsubscribe me. I don't want your issues.

By the way, every time I see this thread I think of a thread topic with one letter different. Maybe you could start it for us. :mrgreen:
So do I. The title wouldn't be just one word, though 8-)
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