Thursday, August 30, 2007

One of these things is not like the others




Lunfardo lesson du jour, or should I say el día!
Choose the one item that does not belong to the group. Later at the end of the day when I return home from work, I will post the correct answer and explanation in the comment box. But please take a wild guess and post what you think the answer is.

9 comments:

Tina said...

Oooooh I see the makings of an alfajor in the middle picture! Mmmmmm dulce de leche... The alfajor cannot possibly belong to the group because Tina should be eating it. :-)

Seriously though... I have absolutely no flippin' idea what doesn't belong.

miss tango in her eyes said...

They are actually shortbread cookies. I added some Dulce de Leche to Argentine them up a bit. They are Mr.Tango and Munchkin´s favourite cookie.

tangospeak said...

No clue! although "dulche con leche" sounds as though it could also mean something else. so i'm guessing the bean bag doesn't belong.

Tina said...

Or maybe the bean bag DOES belong because the pimp needs furniture for his bachelor pad.

Would you just tell us already? ;-)

Maria said...

That's a trick question. The pimpy guy is going to lounge on the bean bag (?) while eating the delicious cookies.

miss tango in her eyes said...

Good effort chicas!

The cookies do not belong.

A Bean Bag chair here is called a fiaca, which means lazy.

The pimp in lunfardo is called a cafiolo, cafio which is the tangled form of fiaca. The pimp is lazy because he doesn´t work, he has others work for him.

So in a Tango song if you hear the word cafiolo, you will know there is a pimp involved somehow.

Next lesson, I will explain another way of saying lazy, that can get you into much trouble...much much trouble.

marianomatulich@hotmail.com said...

it was too difficult H !!!

miss tango in her eyes said...

Difficult for you M! I know you grew up a very well bred boy ;) and don´t know these naughty words.

Anonymous said...

lol.
maybe...

M