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- From: er@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Elie Rosenfeld)
- Subject: Re: Cornered turtles?
- Reply-To: er@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Elie Rosenfeld)
- Organization: Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 18:20:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.182052.25087@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- References: <1992Nov20.180726.16368@umbc3.umbc.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov20.180726.16368@umbc3.umbc.edu>, shimoff@umbc4.umbc.edu (Eliot Shimoff) writes:
- |> Warren's new "acharei ha-chagim" sig tells us "adif tzav pinui
- |> mi'tzav shmoneh." Some have suggested a subtle (or perhaps not
- |> so subtle) political message, but those of us who fondly recall
- |> the "strange carrot" assume that there is an even more subtle
- |> message.
- |>
- |> My own guess:
- |>
- |> "A cornered turtle is better than "Thou Shalt Not Steal""
- |> ...etc....
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- I hate to sound clueless, but for us modern-Hebrew impaired types, before this
- thread gets even wackier, could someone *please* tell us the real translation
- of the phrase? No political comments, just the facts, ok? Thanks.
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