21 December 2018

Shaista

I must get my skates on in a minute. However, I have still got time to send a shout out for a certain hair and beauty salon in the suburbs of Birmingham. If you were going to name a hair and beauty salon you might come up with an exotic name or a name filled with hope and promise. You know the kind of thing - "Orchid Hair and Beauty", "Hair Rooms", "The Beauty Lounge" etcetera. But the owner of the Birmingham salon chose this:-

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  1. Haha, very funny. (I didn't know you frequented beauty salons.)

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    1. As it happens I was in one just today...to buy someone a voucher.

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  2. I don't get it. Is this a British joke?

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    1. Please read Mistress ADDY's explanation.

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  3. Steve, technically the Yiddish is sheister from the German Scheisse meaning, in its polite form, "dung". But a bad choice of shop name indeed. haha

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  4. But in Hindu it means beautiful, polite, cultured -- so it's apropos for those folks.

    Beware of double (or more) interpretations!

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    1. I shall beware Mistress Jenny. Thank you for your advice.

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  5. I didn't get it until I read Addy's comment. Of course I am very familiar with Scheisse.

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  6. there must be a good reason for this name. Now I nominate you to go in and ask why this name.

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    1. Trouble is, it's eighty miles away Red and besides I do not require hair and beauty treatment.

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    2. Excuses, excuses!

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  7. Hilarious post. On more than one level, in fact.
    Alphie

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    1. As the actress said to the vicar, "Pleased to have tickled you!" Thanks for calling by Alphie. "I thought you had deserted me!" as Cathy wailed to Heathcliff.

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