Re: GR translation: checking out tits ‘n’ asses, waistlines ‘n’ baskets

[Keith Davis]

I love Ella, and breasts....


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> On Oct 13, 2015, at 11:11 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In this Ella context, I think the proverbial basket is also often also called many other containers...
> 
> But a translation won't be able, normally, to include these allusions.  Be literal, and let the reader dig for meaning.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> David Morris
> 
>> On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ella Fitzgerald - A-Tisket, A-Tasket (High Quality - Remastered)
>> Lyrics
>> A-tisket A-tasket
>> A brown and yellow basket
>> I send a letter to my mommy
>> On the way I dropped it
>> I dropped it
>> I dropped it
>> Yes on the way I dropped it
>> A little girlie picked it up
>> And put it in her pocket
>> SHE WAS TRUCKIN ON DOWN THE AVENUE
>> Not a single thing to do
>> She went peck peck pecking all around
>> When she spied it on the ground
>> She took it
>> She took it
>> My little yellow basket
>> And if she doesn't bring it back I think that I will die
>> A-tisket A-tasket
>> I lost my yellow basket
>> And if the girlie don't return it
>> Don't know know what I'll do
>> Oh dear I wonder where my basket can be
>> (So do we, so do we, so do we, so do we, so do we)
>> Oh gee I wish that little girl I could see
>> (So do we, so do we, so do we, so do we, so do we)
>> Oh why… Full lyrics on Google Play
>> 
>> 
>>> On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Of all the available words, breasts seems the warmest and most intimate. I'm sticking with that...
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> basket for breasts in this context seems rather unlikely as we have the tits just a few words before. 
>>>> 
>>>> In the urban dictionary I found that: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=basket: Could mean balls, obviously, but vagina too. Take your pick?
>>>> 
>>>> 2015-10-13 12:16 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>>>>> Baskets, noun, the female breasts, ROUTLEDGE DICT OF MODERN SLANG, interestingly no citation earlier than 1965. An anachronistic usage from the fountainhead of the sixties. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 2:01 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I would think the things normal bras have two of.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 2015-10-13 5:36 GMT+02:00 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>> Best ... P-List ... subject line ... ever ...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Mike Jing
>>>>>>> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> > V653.4-14   But he gets no farther than Nürnberg, where his valise, with
>>>>>>> > Byron wrapped inside in an alb, is ripped off by a transsectite, a Lutheran
>>>>>>> > named Mausmacher who likes to dress up in Roman regalia. This Mausmacher,
>>>>>>> > not content with standing in front of his own mirror making papal crosses,
>>>>>>> > thinks it will be a really bizarre kick to go out to the Zeppelin field to a
>>>>>>> > Nazi torchlight rally in full drag, and walk around blessing people at
>>>>>>> > random. Green torches flaring, red swastikas, twinkling brasses and Father
>>>>>>> > Mausmacher, checking out tits ‘n’ asses, waistlines ‘n’ baskets, humming a
>>>>>>> > clerical little tune, some Bach riff, smiling as he moves through the Sieg
>>>>>>> > Heils and choruses of “Die Fahne Hoch.”
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > What is the basket in "waistlines ‘n’ baskets"?
>>>>>>> -
>>>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>> 
>>> 
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