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To be amish.....
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 7:24 pm
by Aughnanure
Overheard in an Istanbul square:
"I'm really tired of the desert, I'm gonna move to America and become Amish".
" What?' (Concerned discussion amid the witnesses to this blasphemy)
"Then go in peace, my son".
Re: To be amish.....
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 9:23 pm
by Niner Delta
Re: To be amish.....
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 9:56 pm
by Karl/Pa.
Translation?
Re: To be amish.....
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 2:42 am
by Aughnanure
Very subtle
Re: To be amish.....
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 3:01 am
by Niner Delta
Too subtle for me, explain it.......
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Re: To be amish.....
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 5:36 pm
by Aughnanure
To try and save myself from the deep corner I must confess that I took it from another forum; I am NOT the author.
Amish = a missionary.
Re: To be amish.....
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:06 am
by Niner Delta
Ummm.... The Amish aren't missionary, you are probably thinking of the Mormons, they go on
missions, especially in their late teens.
The Amish are very low tech, no cars or electricity, not even zippers in their clothes.
Is that the joke, going from low-tech middle east to no-tech Amish???
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Re: To be amish.....
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 7:50 am
by DuncaninFrance
Amish
n plural noun (the Amish) a strict US Mennonite sect living mainly in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
n adjective relating to the Amish.
ORIGIN
C19: apparently from German amisch, from the name of the Swiss preacher Jakob Amman.
Re: To be amish.....
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:18 am
by 24626151
Subtle for an aussie, for those others Mish is slang shortening for missionary as sanga is slang short for sandwich, arvo for afternoon etc.
Re: To be amish.....
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:51 am
by Niner
So....he's an Australian living in Moslem Turkey and deciding to go to America and telling somebody who is a party to the Aussie lingo. The somebody is pretty much reponding, "roger that". This is the best I can make of it from what has been said so far.
"I'm really tired of the desert, I'm gonna move to America and become Amish".
This joke has to earn some kind of prize I think.
