[etni] Here's a Good One (Tirshom Tirshom in English)
- From: Israel Cohen <cohen.izzy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:48:37 +0200
>> I'm sending [my English version of the popular Hebrew talkback parody
"Tirshom Tirshom"] again just in case it got swept away by the floods.
http://www.etni.org/teachers/barry/2010/Tirshom_Tirshom.doc
<<
I once wrote something similar for Groundhog Day (February 2nd) ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmot
... only the speaker was identified before rather than after each statement.
Some Israelis may think the groundhog is an aardvark because kHaZiR @aDaMaH
is the Hebrew term for an aardvark (anteater) ... but these are very
different, unrelated creatures.
Groundhog Day Party
=================
Dwight Hines: It takes true wordplayers to write about the shades of
mortality. [actual quote]
Random House: shade 7. the disembodied spirit of a dead person.
Walrus: The time has come to chat about eschatology.
Banquo: We thanes know all about thanatology.
Narcissus: What would *you* know about youth in Asia?
Pegasus: Horsefeathers! He probably doesn't know the difference between
Calvary and cavalry. If pigs could fly ...
Beelzebub: ... I'd be lord of the pigs.
Izzy: When should we have this party?
Marmota: Today, on February 2nd, of course.
Elvis: You ain't nuthin' but a Groundhog. -- with thanks to Cynthia
MacGregor
Izzy: But where?
J Maccabee: At the Macabre Caberet. It's an adumbral location for a dumb
brawl.
Izzy: How will we get there?
Dorothy: We can felo-de-sallow brick road.
Toto: Yep.
Izzy: Suffering succotash. Who are you?
Succuba: Men succumb to me. Call me Bella Donna.
Atropos: I'm here. In a reversal of Fate, I give everyone a Sport-ing
chance.
Izzy: Do you cast a die? or just a shadow?
Atropos: of nothing. Life hangs by a Hare...
Grim Reaper: ... that I cut with my scythe.
Tortoise: People say I'm an infernal animal. They confuse me with Tartarus.
If I were a sea turtle I'd be a martyr.
Oyster: Who's going to Host this party?
Izzy: I nominate Walt Quader. Where is that guy?
Quader: The phrase 'dead as a doornail' appears as though it might be a
stubbornly persistent corruption of this disputed fragment from
Shakespeare's otherwise lost notebook of sketches for his (alas, also lost)
last comedy, 'The Grim Knocker':
...dead, Isadore? / Nay! I'll... -- Walt
Lobster: Let's dance a quadrille. -- Lewis Carroll
White Rabbit: I can do the bunny hop.
Owl: I prefer the hootchy-kootchy.
Wovoka: Will there really be dancing?
Artemis: Of course. Just call me Diana, goddess of Dance. Do you like
rhythm and blues?
Izzy: Is that a form of synaesthesia? Where tints are produced by tones?
Silenus: That sounds very interesting. I must tell my friend Memnon about
this. Wonder where he is?
Memnon: I'm luxuriating in LuxOr (aka Karn-ak). I still produce tones from
(furtive glance + whisper) light rays.
Dwight H: The idea of this party is you become familiar with ...
Doppelgänger: ... with your own familiar!
Dwight H: No. Just a time and place where no one takes umbrage ... like
the WordPlay group where we all try to strike a happy medium.
Witch of Endor: Ouch.
Saul: Are you really a medium?
Witch: I used to be. Now I'm a large. Beware ... the ... evil ... eye.
Cyclops: What is your name?
Odysseus: My name is gnomon. How's that for style?
Ariel: WordPlay? That group is just a tempest in a teapot.
Belial: A worthless group if I ever heard of one. Full of nuts.
Satan: Don't reverse my name in vain.
Vampire: Where is that vein?
Azazel: They're as crAzy as 'ell.
Argus: I'd better keep an eye on that group... if only to see if anyone is
actually playing with words.
Humpty: If you can *see* whether I'm playing with words, you've sharper eyes
than most. -- (apologies to) Carroll
Caesar: If looks were daggers, Argus, you'd really be dangerous.
Pluto: Woof. It's He-l in Sheol.
Cerberus: Arf, Bow-Wow, and How. I can fetch three Styx at the same time.
Cynosura: Why is Argus watching me? Does he think I'm Gladly, the cross-eyed
bear?
Euler: You can't cross all 7 of the Koenigsburg bridges without crossing at
least one of them twice.
Caiaphas: Let me try that. I know how to fix a cross.
Valkyrie: Kyrie eleison. Let me carry you away from this Vale of Tears ...
to Elysium.
Izzy: Do they have Shades in Hades?
Satan: You'll find out soon enough. We recycle lemures as lemurs,
douroucoulis, and tarsiers.
Riding Hood: My, what big eyes you have.
Grandma: This has been one long bubbe-maise. It's time to fly the coop.
Azrael: Dei gratia. By your grace, I'll deliver the coup.
Israel: Just a minute. Una memento mori. Mama MIA. Son of Sam & Sara.
Eli Goodman: Is Izzy schizy?
Dr. Spock: No, just an ex-spook goin' back to 'is old haunts.
CIAo (proably cognate with tzadi-aleph = to exit)
Israel "izzy" Cohen
Petah Tikva
cohen.izzy@xxxxxxxxx
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BPMaps/
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