[TheForge] Yale Yellin gate...

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

  A small member of BAMA?

bamablacksmith at comcast.net wrote:
> That's bambino ....  ;-)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ries <ries at riesniemi.com>
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:15:15 
> To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA<theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Yale Yellin gate...
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> I know, in Italian, "bimbo" is slang for  a baby, usually a male baby.
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> ries
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> On Apr 21, 2010, at 8:03 PM, Bruce Freeman wrote:
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> Strictly speaking, "bimbo" (like "blond") IS masculine.  The
> respective feminine forms are "bimba" and "blonde".  But Americans
> don't even know the difference between "sex" and "gender" so...
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> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer
> <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
>> A bimbor then?
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>> Bruce Freeman wrote:
>>> Fred,
>>> Actually, this bimbo was male - to judge from the voice.
>>> A rather clueless person who apparently foisted himself off as an
>>> asset to the Yale visitors' center.
>>> Yale DOES feature the Harkness gate on their website, after all...
>>> Bruce
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