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[david weiner]

Could be read the same way - it's a little more of a stretch, but it  
would go something like "You shouldn't tamper with the family jewels"

In English it is very difficult to establish context through grammar  
or syntax as a result it's easy to create puns by intentionally  
misunderstanding the context of a phrase and extending it to something  
sexual.


On Feb 25, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:

> And the phrase tampering?
>
> 2009/2/25 david weiner <1265 at lucerneblvd.org>:
>> English is a difficult language - and joking in a second language  
>> is really
>> hard.
>>
>> WIthout putting too fine a point on it, the joke was that  
>> "fiddling" while
>> perfectly appropriate in the original context could also be  
>> interpreted as
>> "making out" or "fiddling with your privates" or something like  
>> that, so
>> that's where the joke came in, two guys fiddling with something  
>> could either
>> be hacking away at some code or making out. I believe the second  
>> half of the
>> joke was that Bob lives in the Southern US which is typically  
>> characterized
>> as homophobic and so two guys making out would be an invitation to  
>> abuse.
>>
>>
>> - david
>>
>>
>> On Feb 25, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>>
>>> That said, I have no clue what the joke was about, I thought I’d  
>>> used
>>> a frank word for hacking or playing around with that sounded a bit
>>> more wishy-washy than the strict process of making functions in  
>>> php...
>>>
>>> ggt
>>>
>>> 2009/2/25 Bob Patin <bob at patin.com>:
>>>>
>>>> Chris is like 9 feet tall... I think I'll stick to making stupid  
>>>> jokes
>>>> and
>>>> playing the piano...
>>>>
>>>> BP
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 25, 2009, at 1:56 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> I just want to see Chris and ggt "fiddling" together.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In Bob Patin's part of the country,  "Them's fightin' words".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> J
>>>>
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