[rollei_list] Re: OT What does it mean?


On Jan 28, 2006, at 2:24 PM, John Jensen wrote:

Marc, several days ago there were discussions about
'Notary Sojac' and 'Nov Shmoz Ka Pop'.  I spotted an
entry on a website that Bill Holman (creator of Smokey
Stover) said that Notary Sojac was 'Merry Christmas'
in Gaelic.  I thought that no way does it mean it, it
does not look like Gaelic.  But someone else wrote
that Notary Sojac sounds a bit like 'Notlaig Soghach'.
 Now, does that mean Merry Christmas?

From the Cartoonacy site:


From the Smokey Stover comics, do you know the source (other than the creator of the comic strip) or the meaning of "Notary Sojac" and "Scram Gravy Ain't Wavy?"

"Notary Sojac" was cartoonist Bill Holman's spelling of "Nodlaig Soghach," which is Gaelic for "Merry Christmas." I don't know where "Scram Gravy Ain't Wavy" came from, but if I had to speculate, I'd guess that it refers to the "gravy" a horse leaves behind when it "scrams," a scatological reference. For the record, Holman's other two catch phrases were "Foo" (which Holman said was a Chinese expression for "Good Luck") and "1506 Nix Nix" (which was a warning to single women to stay away from the hotel room in which a fellow cartoonist with a lecherous reputation was known to stay). 
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