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:-
Haha, very funny. (I didn't know you frequented beauty salons.)
ReplyDeleteAs it happens I was in one just today...to buy someone a voucher.
DeleteI don't get it. Is this a British joke?
ReplyDeletePlease read Mistress ADDY's explanation.
DeleteSteve, technically the Yiddish is sheister from the German Scheisse meaning, in its polite form, "dung". But a bad choice of shop name indeed. haha
ReplyDeleteThank you Mistress ADDY.
DeleteBut in Hindu it means beautiful, polite, cultured -- so it's apropos for those folks.
ReplyDeleteBeware of double (or more) interpretations!
I shall beware Mistress Jenny. Thank you for your advice.
DeleteI didn't get it until I read Addy's comment. Of course I am very familiar with Scheisse.
ReplyDeleteHow familiar?
Deletethere must be a good reason for this name. Now I nominate you to go in and ask why this name.
ReplyDeleteTrouble is, it's eighty miles away Red and besides I do not require hair and beauty treatment.
DeleteExcuses, excuses!
DeleteHilarious post. On more than one level, in fact.
ReplyDeleteAlphie
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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