a new motto

[Joanna Sheldon]

At 15:25 10-07-00 -0400, you wrote:
> From Sam Smith's Progressive Review, back after a longish hiatus:
>
>>Even the politics [in Italy] can be pretty interesting. For example, 
>>I found this on a wall in Florence:
>>
>>"L'economia in culo a gli economisti."
>>
>>Roughly translated, I was told, this means: "Put the economy up the 
>>ass of the economists."
> 

That's exactly what it means.  (The "put" is implied, and Italians say "in"
where we say "up".  Lliterally: "the economy in the ass of the economists")

Beautiful!

Joanna

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