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Originally Posted by Pie
Hey CF -- what does your sig mean? Babelfish gives this highly dubious translation:
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I know my onions - those are has each dimension of my bicycle
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Travel safely!
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Babelfish is almost correct, and, naturally, I can forgive a technologically marred application for producing such an imperfect interpretation.
In truth it is a play on words, 'I know my onions' is an old English saying that means 'I am very capable of doing what I know best', but, in an obviously (now) vain attempt at humour, I thought I would tie this to the old cliche image of the Frenchman with his bicycle, either side of which would be hung voluminous bunches of onions - a graphic description of the French onion-seller, as he was affectionately known in my younger days. The literal translation of the second sentence is therefore: 'they are each side of my bicycle'.
Well, it brought a tear to my eye, anyway - and to avoid mis-interpretation I meant that to be a tear of laughter... but they could just have been induced by the onions, I suppose...