Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!raha From: raha@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Bob Hettinga) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Curses Message-ID: <1538@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 05:00:21 EST Article-I.D.: sphinx.1538 Posted: Sun Jan 26 05:00:21 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jan-86 02:49:02 EST Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center Lines: 36 [Hello, what's all this stuff about a line-eater??] all this stuff about a line-eater??                      >> My question to you net.joke-sters out there: What is the funniest "Comedic >> Curse" you have heard? Maybe someday we'll have a cannonical list. >Comedic or not, "May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits" is >a legit malediction from the Arabic, which has some of the most colorful >curses in the world. Makes English look anemic by comparison, I'm told. Said on the same night by Steve Allen, who was supposedly collecting these things: "May the rowboat of your life break apart in mid-lake, and may your mother be unable to find help as she runs barking along the shore." Johnny: "Haw, Haw, Haw" -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Emil Lizardo: Where Are We Going??... | What?...Oh yeah: Aliens: TO THE TENTH PLANET!!!! | **> A Disclaimer <** Lizardo: And When Are We Going??... | ^ ^^^^^^^^^^ Aleins: REAL SOON NOW!!!!!! | There. That okay? -- Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension | Good... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Hettinga University of Chicago Computation Center UUCP: ...!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!raha