>> I'm sending [my English version of the popular Hebrew talkback parody "Tirshom Tirshom"] again just in case it got swept away by the floods. http://www.etni.org/teachers/barry/2010/Tirshom_Tirshom.doc << I once wrote something similar for Groundhog Day (February 2nd) ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmot ... only the speaker was identified before rather than after each statement. Some Israelis may think the groundhog is an aardvark because kHaZiR @aDaMaH is the Hebrew term for an aardvark (anteater) ... but these are very different, unrelated creatures. Groundhog Day Party ================= Dwight Hines: It takes true wordplayers to write about the shades of mortality. [actual quote] Random House: shade 7. the disembodied spirit of a dead person. Walrus: The time has come to chat about eschatology. Banquo: We thanes know all about thanatology. Narcissus: What would *you* know about youth in Asia? Pegasus: Horsefeathers! He probably doesn't know the difference between Calvary and cavalry. If pigs could fly ... Beelzebub: ... I'd be lord of the pigs. Izzy: When should we have this party? Marmota: Today, on February 2nd, of course. Elvis: You ain't nuthin' but a Groundhog. -- with thanks to Cynthia MacGregor Izzy: But where? J Maccabee: At the Macabre Caberet. It's an adumbral location for a dumb brawl. Izzy: How will we get there? Dorothy: We can felo-de-sallow brick road. Toto: Yep. Izzy: Suffering succotash. Who are you? Succuba: Men succumb to me. Call me Bella Donna. Atropos: I'm here. In a reversal of Fate, I give everyone a Sport-ing chance. Izzy: Do you cast a die? or just a shadow? Atropos: of nothing. Life hangs by a Hare... Grim Reaper: ... that I cut with my scythe. Tortoise: People say I'm an infernal animal. They confuse me with Tartarus. If I were a sea turtle I'd be a martyr. Oyster: Who's going to Host this party? Izzy: I nominate Walt Quader. Where is that guy? Quader: The phrase 'dead as a doornail' appears as though it might be a stubbornly persistent corruption of this disputed fragment from Shakespeare's otherwise lost notebook of sketches for his (alas, also lost) last comedy, 'The Grim Knocker': ...dead, Isadore? / Nay! I'll... -- Walt Lobster: Let's dance a quadrille. -- Lewis Carroll White Rabbit: I can do the bunny hop. Owl: I prefer the hootchy-kootchy. Wovoka: Will there really be dancing? Artemis: Of course. Just call me Diana, goddess of Dance. Do you like rhythm and blues? Izzy: Is that a form of synaesthesia? Where tints are produced by tones? Silenus: That sounds very interesting. I must tell my friend Memnon about this. Wonder where he is? Memnon: I'm luxuriating in LuxOr (aka Karn-ak). I still produce tones from (furtive glance + whisper) light rays. Dwight H: The idea of this party is you become familiar with ... Doppelgänger: ... with your own familiar! Dwight H: No. Just a time and place where no one takes umbrage ... like the WordPlay group where we all try to strike a happy medium. Witch of Endor: Ouch. Saul: Are you really a medium? Witch: I used to be. Now I'm a large. Beware ... the ... evil ... eye. Cyclops: What is your name? Odysseus: My name is gnomon. How's that for style? Ariel: WordPlay? That group is just a tempest in a teapot. Belial: A worthless group if I ever heard of one. Full of nuts. Satan: Don't reverse my name in vain. Vampire: Where is that vein? Azazel: They're as crAzy as 'ell. Argus: I'd better keep an eye on that group... if only to see if anyone is actually playing with words. Humpty: If you can *see* whether I'm playing with words, you've sharper eyes than most. -- (apologies to) Carroll Caesar: If looks were daggers, Argus, you'd really be dangerous. Pluto: Woof. It's He-l in Sheol. Cerberus: Arf, Bow-Wow, and How. I can fetch three Styx at the same time. Cynosura: Why is Argus watching me? Does he think I'm Gladly, the cross-eyed bear? Euler: You can't cross all 7 of the Koenigsburg bridges without crossing at least one of them twice. Caiaphas: Let me try that. I know how to fix a cross. Valkyrie: Kyrie eleison. Let me carry you away from this Vale of Tears ... to Elysium. Izzy: Do they have Shades in Hades? Satan: You'll find out soon enough. We recycle lemures as lemurs, douroucoulis, and tarsiers. Riding Hood: My, what big eyes you have. Grandma: This has been one long bubbe-maise. It's time to fly the coop. Azrael: Dei gratia. By your grace, I'll deliver the coup. Israel: Just a minute. Una memento mori. Mama MIA. Son of Sam & Sara. Eli Goodman: Is Izzy schizy? Dr. Spock: No, just an ex-spook goin' back to 'is old haunts. CIAo (proably cognate with tzadi-aleph = to exit) Israel "izzy" Cohen Petah Tikva cohen.izzy@xxxxxxxxx http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BPMaps/ ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------