The last fix for a "All Shook Up" 33

Ethan Dicks ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 14:25:29 CDT 2015


On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Jarratt RMA
<robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>     Of course FRAGILE means something...FRAGILE (pronounced ‘Fra-gee-lee') is
>> Italian for “major award”. :)
>
> I suspect I am missing a joke here, but "fragile" in Italian has exactly the
> same meaning as "fragile" in English. "Major award" in Italian is probably
> something like "gran premio". Where is the joke I have missed?

Movie reference: A Christmas Story.

-ethan


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