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To: SunkenCiv

The godfather of all curses is Arabic: (translation, well, sort of) May your t(*&tEKH&^$ be doorknockers on the gates of hell.

That is a curse.


11 posted on 07/17/2008 5:21:17 AM PDT by combat_boots (She lives! 22 weeks, 9.5 inches. Go, baby, go!)
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To: combat_boots

How about, “may your life be full of lawyers”. ;0)


15 posted on 07/17/2008 5:42:40 AM PDT by seemoAR
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To: combat_boots
original article: The city, a regional capital under the Romans, still flourished in the 7th century AD but was abandoned by the 12 century.

combat_boots: The godfather of all curses is Arabic: (translation, well, sort of) May your t(*&tEKH&^$ be doorknockers on the gates of hell.

You know what I'm thinking would have caused a flourishing 7th-century Mediterranean city to have been abandoned by the 12th century?

16 posted on 07/17/2008 6:14:35 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: combat_boots

There’s one in Japan that translates to “die sh!tting”.


17 posted on 07/17/2008 6:42:55 AM PDT by lesser_satan (Cthulu '08! Why vote for the lesser evil?)
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