๐ i sent the pic to friends as a joke,
turns out it’s close to my best friend’s
flat in Dublin!!!
Truth is, it’s Najina, but the sign’s
broken and the N looks like a V…
๐ couldn’t resist posting!
Reem
7alaylia
All you can eat
Funny! I like the play on words. There is a shirt I have seen young Arab girls wearing here in the USA. It says “Where is the Cous-Cous”. Anyone familiar with Arabic will see the play in words there. Naughty girls. LOL!
anonymous
All you can eat
Sign of a mis-spent youth in Bahrain….. My VERY few words in Arabic are mostly the bad ones – and I get the “Cous-Cous” reference from Malik – most Bahrainis would be gobsmacked to know who taught me that particular word!!!!
My father very impishly named our speedboat at Zallaq “Zip” – as a kid I thought it was because it went fast! …..a further play on English/Arabic words which, whilst sounding the same, in fact have hugely different meanings. My mother, who was a dab hand at making dresses, had gone to Manama to buy some dress making stuff in the Souk once famously asked one of the traders if ……..(and this is as close as we can get her to admit to the exact wording) “he had a big Zip for her” – he apparently started to laugh a little, but held his mirth back long enough to say “how big memsahib?” – my mother, not knowing the measurement in inches held her hands one above the other and about 18 inches apart and said “about this big” at which point the shopowner disolved into laughter. I never did find out the Arabic word for a Zipper – but I do know what a Zip is in Arabic! All I can say is – use yours wisely!
๐
Mike
Luxembourg 12.05.2005
7alaylia
All you can eat
LOL! Nice story. He must have thought your mother was a real “fil-fila”.
The word you are looking for is รฦรลรโรยณรฦรลรโรยญรฦรลรโรยงรฦรลรโรยจ
mahmood
Re: All you can eat
bloody marvelous Mike! thanks for the laugh ๐
7alaylia
Re: All you can eat
Thinking of this reminded me of an incident when I lived in England. I was in a Tescos, a grocery store, and I heard an American lady ahead of me in the aisle having an issue with her little daughter. It was after 5 so the store was crowded. In a loud, frustrated voice, the American mother said “If you dont watch it little lady I am going to smack your fanny.” The Brits around her just stared, aghast at what she had just told her daughter.
I do not think the American lady was aware that in the UK, a “fanny” is the front side of a female, not the backside!
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All you can eat
๐ i sent the pic to friends as a joke,
turns out it’s close to my best friend’s
flat in Dublin!!!
Truth is, it’s Najina, but the sign’s
broken and the N looks like a V…
๐ couldn’t resist posting!
Reem
All you can eat
Funny! I like the play on words. There is a shirt I have seen young Arab girls wearing here in the USA. It says “Where is the Cous-Cous”. Anyone familiar with Arabic will see the play in words there. Naughty girls. LOL!
All you can eat
Sign of a mis-spent youth in Bahrain….. My VERY few words in Arabic are mostly the bad ones – and I get the “Cous-Cous” reference from Malik – most Bahrainis would be gobsmacked to know who taught me that particular word!!!!
My father very impishly named our speedboat at Zallaq “Zip” – as a kid I thought it was because it went fast! …..a further play on English/Arabic words which, whilst sounding the same, in fact have hugely different meanings. My mother, who was a dab hand at making dresses, had gone to Manama to buy some dress making stuff in the Souk once famously asked one of the traders if ……..(and this is as close as we can get her to admit to the exact wording) “he had a big Zip for her” – he apparently started to laugh a little, but held his mirth back long enough to say “how big memsahib?” – my mother, not knowing the measurement in inches held her hands one above the other and about 18 inches apart and said “about this big” at which point the shopowner disolved into laughter. I never did find out the Arabic word for a Zipper – but I do know what a Zip is in Arabic! All I can say is – use yours wisely!
๐
Mike
Luxembourg 12.05.2005
All you can eat
LOL! Nice story. He must have thought your mother was a real “fil-fila”.
The word you are looking for is รฦรลรโรยณรฦรลรโรยญรฦรลรโรยงรฦรลรโรยจ
Re: All you can eat
bloody marvelous Mike! thanks for the laugh ๐
Re: All you can eat
Thinking of this reminded me of an incident when I lived in England. I was in a Tescos, a grocery store, and I heard an American lady ahead of me in the aisle having an issue with her little daughter. It was after 5 so the store was crowded. In a loud, frustrated voice, the American mother said “If you dont watch it little lady I am going to smack your fanny.” The Brits around her just stared, aghast at what she had just told her daughter.
I do not think the American lady was aware that in the UK, a “fanny” is the front side of a female, not the backside!
LOL!