> Ah, how poorly jokes translate from language to language. Sometimes people > put rings through the nose of bulls to make them easy to control. Kevin is > implying that your wife has put a ring through your nose to make you easy > to control.
Well, over here a "ringed bull" is a person of scarce intelligence and great stubbornness, responding only to primeval instincts -like fear of a beating-. Understandably not what one wants to be called, even tongue-in-cheek. Just goes to prove the UN translators could drive us all to a nuclear war... Roberto
