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"If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike" is a bowdlerization of a much older phrase. As my Great-Grandfather, born in 1890 in Widz, Belaruz wou
by fortran77 4mo ago
"If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike" is a bowdlerization of a much older phrase. As my Great-Grandfather, born in 1890 in Widz, Belaruz would say it "ווען די באָבע וואָלט געהאַט בײצִים, װאָלט זי געװען מײַן זײדע" (If my grandmother had balls, she would have been my grandfather.)
- SugarReflex 4mo agoIn your understanding, what is the point of the original phrase?
- fortran77 4mo agoThe same point as the "meme" quoted in the article, but a little more raw/cheekier. More like "it's a waste of time to speuclate on what might have been."