[cl-faq] We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto?

[Peter Seibel]

On Jan 14, 2006, at 10:45 PM, Jean-François Brouillet wrote:

> For the benefit of the non US natives, what's that supposed to mean ?
>
> BTW:
>
> "Toto" is French for "foo"
>   Tutu                 bar
>   Titi                 ???
>   Tata                 ???
>   Tete                 ???

In the classic book/movie, _The Wizard of Oz_, a young girl, bored  
out of her skull with living in Kansas, is picked up by a tornado and  
transported to a quite strange land where she befriends a lion, a  
scarecrow, and a tin-man, does battle with a wicked witch, and  
realizes that all she wants to do is get home. When she first arrives  
in this strange land she says to her little dog, Toto, "We're not in  
Kansas anymore" on some such. I.e. things are not what we're used to  
anymore.

-Peter

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