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From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
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 Ar an seachtú lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh lar3ryca: 

 > [...] No idea. I haven't heard 'a month of Sundays' since Pontius was a
 > pilot. Alternatively, "since Christ was a carpenter".

I remember Nick Nicholas’ commenting that Greek has a similar phrase that
involves the idea of Jesus having to do his national service, which I found
very entertaining. Let me have a look; no luck with Google. Ah, excellent,
Yandex comes through:

https://hellenisteukontos.opoudjis.net/gtage-the-tsipras-edition-part-1/

“Last time I was here I saw the Christ soldier”

That cross-references to
https://hellenisteukontos.opoudjis.net/gtage-losing-ones-religion/ , which
involves the phrase “Είδε τον Χριστό φαντάρο”, “he saw GI Christ” and doesn’t
use it as a simile.

 > -- 
 > I asked a German gentleman if he knew the square root of 81.
 > He said "No".

Stimmt, [nœyn] heißt nicht [naɪn].


-- 
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)