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durrelllrobert
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I remember that in High School we used to say that our girl friend was riding the white horse (caballo blanco) at her time of the month. Guess that's
why a sanitary napkinn is called caballo in Mexico?
Bob Durrell
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noshoes
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Quote: Originally posted by DENNIS  | .....
Another....a person from India is known, officially, as a Hindú, whether they practice Hinduism or not. |
Actually makes sense as India used to be called Hindustan.
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Alm
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Autoparts have weird names in any language. Odd to foreigners - yes, probably. Or, rather, - "odd to American English speakers". Spanish Semaforo =
traffic light, is a legitimate English and French term for railway signalling devices - English spelling is Semaphore. How many Americans use
railways?  ... Rhetorical question...
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Mexitron
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"sin fin" could perhaps refer to anything round---a circumference has no end (aka pi)?
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woody with a view
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Chezgete (cheez-get-A) is a tube.
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nandopedal
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Steering column=Tornillo sin fin
Tornillo=screw=threaded column but with no ending point
My two centavos
\"There are many dangers in Baja. The most serious of which is not going.\" Christophe Noel (EXPO)
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Tomas Tierra
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My last trip I heard a cold beer called a "Chevy"
Never heard that one before
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nandopedal
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Tomas,
Cerveza=cheve, somebody sometime decided to cut the word and also to give it a funky pronunciation at the start of it, very popular.
\"There are many dangers in Baja. The most serious of which is not going.\" Christophe Noel (EXPO)
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Correcamino
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I noticed that many cars posted for sale around the neighborhood in La Paz featured a "quemacocos". Why would a car need to burn coconuts? Biofuel?
I felt like a fool when the locals explained that it was a sunroof. Clever Mexicans! There actually is a more "proper" term - techo corredizo - that
nobody uses.
Si sirve, sirve.
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