DaveO: "Lego" means to steal? Don't tell the kids!

Apparently Gilbert and Sullivan were chastised for putting on a play called Ruddigore because it was "obviously" a euphemism for the B-word. (There! made it a musical thread!)

I remember learning two Yiddish curses from my high school friend Steve Cohen (who sat next to me in homeroom, of course...along with David, Fred, Larry, and Michael)--though I've seen a whole book of them in the past.

A chaleryeh af dayn Bubbe -- May your grandmother get cholera
Zolst du vaksn, vi a tsibeleh, mit kop in drerd -- May you grow...like an onion, with your head in the ground.
There's another one, I don't know it in Yiddish, but it goes something like this: May you become wealthy and famous, and build a huge mansion, with fifty rooms and two beds in each room....and may malarial fever drive you from bed to bed each night.

LH: I doff my chapeau to you, sir. Well fouled, indeed.

Aloha,
Mark