Thursday, December 2, 2010

thurs., 2 dec., 2010, are you shameless or just senile?

GERMAN:  Teletubbies zurück Winker.   +
SPANISH:  Sin vergüenza ...  ++
UZBEK:    эсар ... —  esar ...   ‡‡  
YIDDISH:  חוצפה  — chutzpah  ‡‡‡                    

     + )   “He waves back at the teletubbies.”  ;  
   ++ )   “Shameless ...”  /  No shame ...  shameless no shame  ;  
   ‡‡ )    “Feeble-minded ...   /  feeble-minded  ;  
 ‡‡‡ )     Per Harlan Ellison — “gall, brazen nerve, audacity, shamelessness, presumption-
               plus arrogance, such as no other word, & no other language, can do justice.”
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