Date: Monday, March 13, 1995  10:10am                          Forum: Classic
From: wired child                                                Msg#: 292789
  To: ** ALL **
  Re: The Lame List II
      (Copy by Autox, Reply to #292719, Reply to #261940, Repl*)

WC>Easy, give the rorshah a hid of sid and we'r off

My "Wc" (as opposed to wC - since I've become convinced that he may well
be my evil twin) translator kind of pinged off on this one. So I had to
diagram this message by hand, and I'm unsure of what I've come up with.
Other users are encouraged to critique my analysis.

"Easy, give the" -- we're still in Standard English here, situation
normal

"rorshah" -- This could be a veiled reference to the fallen Shah of
Iran. The "ror-" prefix, therefore, could be a reference to the roar of
the lion, which appears prominently on the Pahlevi family crest.

"a hid of sid" -- This one still throws me. It could be a drug reference
that I'm unfamiliar with (a hit of sit?) or perhaps "ahid ofsid", which,
taking the Iranian connection further, could be an obscure Parsi
saying.

"and we'r off" -- Almost Chaucerian in its brevity, this is of course
the coda to this thought. Since, not knowing Parsi, I have no idea what
"ahid ofsid" means, my usual method of determining a coda's meaning via
contextual clues is shot.

wC
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