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pollyanna
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 picking daisies Walking back from Calis Beach (fethiye) with my mommy-in-law, we stopped to admire the impressive garden of a man called 'Tavukcu Nevzat' who kindly gave me cuttings of each flower I commented on. It was a bit difficult getting them home alive on the plane, but I managed.
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pollyanna
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incidentally, 'picking flowers' (cicek toplamak) is a euphemism for emergency roadside urination.
if you're en route and need to stop, you can tell them you need to pick some flowers....
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| Mon, May 23 2005, 13:54 PM |
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Istanbulguy2004
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pollyanna wrote: incidentally, 'picking flowers' (cicek toplamak) is a euphemism for emergency roadside urination.
if you're en route and need to stop, you can tell them you need to pick some flowers.... I, as a native speaker of Turkish, didn't know this....thanks, Polyanna...it might prove out to be useful one day  Cheers, Cem
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pollyanna
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well, cem, it might only be said behind the backs of the urinators rather than as an announcement one makes to a crowd... 
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