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Thread #63681   Message #1035985
Posted By: Wolfgang
15-Oct-03 - 06:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: A German-English wordplay on IDS(mith)
Subject: BS: A German-English wordplay on IDS(mith)
Maybe someone likes this:

Today's article in the online SPIEGEL about the cabale in the British Conservative Party is titled:

Ab, Duncan

The first obvious reading is '(Fuck) off, Duncan'

Only some time later I realised that when I speak it, it is phonologically identical to

'abdanken' and that means 'resign'.

Wolfgang