ernest.schaal@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jun 1, 8:21 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>esch...@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>>>I give up. What does 春喉 mean?
>>
>>Think of it as a Spoonerism.
> 
> Okay, so it is a word play involving the swapping of vowels? You have
> got to be kidding!
> 
> My Japanese is bad enough as it is, but having to decipher this is
> ridiculous. I did some Googling of the term, and the best I can come
> up with is that it is some type of editorial comment, probably of an
> obscene nature. Frankly, it is not worth the trouble to waste time
> deciphering something that will probably be nothing but a juvenile
> insult.
> 
> Frankly, I don't know what he was commenting on, but clearly
> communications is not his forte. My first exposure to him in this
> thread is a cryptic comment "Do we have Hughs in this NG?" in response
> to a post of mine to someone else. Not having the faintest idea what
> he was talking about, I looked up "Hughs" in Google and Wikipedia, and
> the only thing I found was that Hugh is a common name, with no
> significant connotation attached.
> 
> I don't have the faintest idea why he would want to know if there were
> anyone by that name, so his Spring Throat made less sense than even
> his previous comment.
> 
> Maybe he thinks he was being witty, but frankly there is a big
> difference between being witty and merely being Okay, so it is a word
> play involving the swapping of vowels? You have got to be kidding!
> 
> My Japanese is bad enough as it is, but having to decipher this is
> ridiculous. I did some Googling of the term, and the best I can come
> up with is that it is some type of editorial comment, probably of an
> obscene nature. Frankly, it is not worth the trouble to waste time
> deciphering something that will probably be nothing but a juvenile
> insult.
> 
> Frankly, I don't know what he was commenting on, but clearly
> communications is not his forte. My first exposure to him in this
> thread is a cryptic comment "Do we have Hughs in this NG?" in response
> to a post of mine to someone else. Not having the faintest idea what
> he was talking about, I looked up "Hughs" in Google and Wikipedia, and
> the only thing I found was that Hugh is a common name, with no
> significant connotation attached.
> 
> I don't have the faintest idea why he would want to know if there were
> anyone by that name, so his Spring Throat made less sense than even
> his previous comment.
> 
> Maybe he thinks he was being witty, but frankly there is a big
> difference between being witty and merely being bewildering. He should
> work on his communication skills.

(wipes tears from eyes....)

One of the funniest things I've read for ages.

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学