Snekaos i L.A.?
It’s time once again to bring the joys of snow to poor inner-city children and city councilpersons:
Last time, Reyes and his staff tried to make their own [snowman], but it turned into a disaster because none of the Southern Californians knew how to build one, said Reyes spokesman Tony Perez.
“We don’t have a lot of experience with the snow,” said Perez, who added that he has never actually seen it fall from the sky.
Sir! If you cannot build a snowman from first principles, you are clearly unfit to run the city. I suggest a sabbatical in Sweden or Minnesota.
des wrote:
Not “knowing” how to build a snögubba? That’s a hefty blow to any doctrine of innate ideas, for sure. Can such things really be?
Posted 10 Dec 2003 at 1:40 am ¶
des wrote:
Beg pardon, that’s en snögubbe, två (eller många) snögubbar.
Posted 10 Dec 2003 at 10:12 am ¶
yami wrote:
Mange, mange snemennesker, selvfølgelig!
But, erm, how does one properly danskify “gubbar”?
Posted 10 Dec 2003 at 1:24 pm ¶
des wrote:
Dunno. “Gubbe” means “old geezer” in Swedish, and is the idiomatic thing to make out of snö. Where are the native informants when you need them?
Posted 11 Dec 2003 at 1:37 am ¶
Birgitte wrote:
Det hedder ’snemand’ på dansk.
Posted 29 Jan 2004 at 9:04 am ¶