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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I think you asked what is a “yob” but I couldn’t tell.

BTW.. What in samhell does Q’est qe c’est mean?

(”yob” is british for hooblum or delinquent)


14 posted on 03/11/2010 12:48:03 PM PST by envisio (My wife don't care if I smell like welding rods and gasoline. She actually kinda likes it.)
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To: envisio

That’s French for “What is that?”


24 posted on 03/11/2010 12:57:55 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: envisio
French for "what is ... ?"

Pronounced like "kess-ku-say"

Everybody else pitched in on "Yobs", which is easier than saying "misguided youths who must be treated like delicate porcelain in order to avoid damaging their already inadequate self esteem". Another good British-ism is "lager louts", but that's usually only used in reference to high spirited soccer fans.

In the good old days a judge would call them likely recruits for Army or Navy boot camp in lieu of a long stay in a state penitentiary.

27 posted on 03/11/2010 1:03:43 PM PST by katana (Interesting Times)
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To: envisio

It means “what is this?’


30 posted on 03/11/2010 1:07:47 PM PST by Cheesel (The Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals.)
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To: envisio

Q’est qe c’est

If I remember French I correctly, it means “what is” as in What does Yobs mean - what are yobs.


31 posted on 03/11/2010 1:08:39 PM PST by Bitsy
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To: envisio
BTW.. What in samhell does Q’est qe c’est mean?

I may have gotten the exact spelling wrong...but it's French for "What is it?"

Kind of a joke, ya see.

42 posted on 03/11/2010 1:54:11 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
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To: envisio
"BTW.. What in samhell does Q’est qe c’est mean?"

An easy way to decipher any word or phrase you don't understand is to simply cut and paste it into Google. Works like a charm.

quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur

45 posted on 03/11/2010 2:15:03 PM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: envisio
"(”yob” is british for hooblum or delinquent)"

Hooblum?

YOUblum.

He blum too!


49 posted on 03/11/2010 2:31:40 PM PST by shibumi ("..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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