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Old 09-10-2007, 01:41 PM
KAPital PHINUst KAPital PHINUst is offline
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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum View Post
he will become a dirty bird?
Hint: Substitute "monkey's uncle" for "dirty bird", and you will get the jist of what the phrase was supposed to convey. Again, it was a phrase that the late comedian George Gobel used to say as a signature trademark line.

I got the German version from a old (1975) episode of Jeopardy whereby the category was "Foreign Phrases" and the $60 clue was the phrase I mentioned. Hence my post.
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