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Old 01-29-2004, 02:47 PM   #4211
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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
If your grandmother had wheels, she'd be a trolley car.

My grandfather used to say this. I still ahve no idea what he meant.
The Yiddish version is: If your bubbe had baytzim, she'd be a zayde. Translation: if granny had balls, she'd be granddad.

I always understood it to mean, never try to teach a pig to sing...
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