[rollei_list] Re: OT What does it mean?

That should clinch it.  It is a nonsense phrase (which
I always thought, even as a child).

John

--- Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At 11:24 AM 1/28/06 -0800, 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?
> >
> >John
> 
> Every year at Christmas I send out an annual
> greeting which includes the
> Gaelic:  Nollaig chridheil (pronounced roughly
> "NOLLA-eek chree-yell")
> 
> I grew up a grand fan of Smokey Stover and long ago
> discovered the web site
> which was mentioned in the course of this
> discussion.  Notary Sojac has
> nothing of the Gaelic about it:  it was just a
> nonsene phrase made up to
> look a little like "Notary Public".
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
> 
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