permaculture

["susan macias" <smacias@worldnet.att.net>]

Sheesh, I have to leave Lurkdom to set part of this straight.  "ten or tenga
cuidado" means "Take care" or "Be careful" en espanol.  Not too many Spanish
speakers on this list, I guess.

susan macias
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Hemenway" <hemenway@jeffnet.org>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 10:12 AM
Subject: [permaculture] tengo quid, daddio.


> >> "Que teng cuidado wid dat stuff!"
>
> Knowing too well how Rick's mind works--he abbreviates everything--my
> guess is that "Teng" is a reference to dead Chinese leader Deng Xiao
> Peng, using the  "T" as a D sound (as in Tao). Cuidado is just Rick, a
> notoriously bad typist, trying to type the Spanish word for city,
> ciudad, and "wid" is shorthand for old English "widdershins," meaning
> backward. Dat is Digital Audio Tape, so what I get is:
>
> "The backwards digital audio tape is about that stuff in the dead
> Chinese Imperial City."
>
> Rick, am I close?
>
> Toby, with apologies for the OT clutter. What is permaculture, anyway?
>
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