I’ve had a note from a cynical reader about our little town’s annual festival called Up Your Bum
It’s the truth! It’s in a language other than English and the closest translation idiomatically is place something in your buttocks but of course we normally call the holiday by its name in the other language.
If you know what the polite people of Melbourne usually call this holiday, post the answer in a comment. The first correct answer will get a reward of 5 credits at Blog Explosion
Can you spare a dime for an old dame?
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March 29th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
ooohh i know this one…lol
its the Moomba festival
The name is supposed to mean ‘Let’s get together and have fun’, though one wonders how anyone could be naive enough to believe that all this can be expressed in two syllables. In fact ‘moom’ (mum) means ‘buttocks’ or ‘anus’ in various Victorian languages and ‘ba’ is a suffix that can mean ‘at’, ‘in’ or ‘on’. Presumably someone has tried to render ‘up your bum’ in the vernacular.
March 29th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Do you have a user name at Blog Explosion? I should have said that clearly in my post.
March 29th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
lol ahh sorry yes… its nastysnoops
http://www.blogexplosion.com/profile.php?member=nastysnoops