<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Feb 3, 2007, at 10:38 PM, Tim Collier wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">On Feb 3, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Daly Jessup wrote:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">At 11:28 AM -0500 3/2/07, Neil wrote:</FONT></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Why do you really have to understand the language to interpret that statement?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It seems that Bablefish did a pretty good job.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">On Feb 3, 2007, at 4:33 AM, Tim Collier wrote:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 30.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">It's Spanish, but you really have to understand the language to interpret it correctly.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">He didn't say you needed to know the language to understand the words. He said you need it to "interpret" the statement.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'm positive it is something quite colloquial. In fact, I don't want to get raunchy on the list, but I suspect that the statement COULD be something a guy could say to indicate he has, well, lots of courage and is very manly.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Of course, I have a dirty mind.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Daly</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">It's nothing dirty...it's just "I have a lovely bunch of coconuts."<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It's been a standing joke between me and my wife for the past 23 years.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>OK, but then why did you say that you have to really understand the language to interpret it correctly? </DIV></BODY></HTML>