Tom in Canton, Texas, remembers fellow high school students in Israel saying in Arabic that they were taking bus number 11, a joking way to mean walking. The image is right there in the numerals: the two straight 1s look like a pair of legs, much like going somewhere on Pat and Charlie. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of ““Bus Number 11” Is Slang for Traveling by Foot”
We are still hearing from listeners who are talking about different ways to talk about walking,
like going somewhere on Pat and Charlie, meaning your legs.
We heard from Tom Moore in Canton, Texas, who said,
“When I was in Israel, the Arab high school students would say they were taking bus number 11,
the one representing your legs.”
Oh, nice.
Isn’t that great?
That’s number 11.
Yeah, taking the number 11 bus to get there.
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