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bibblebub | 17:35 Mon 23rd Apr 2012 | Phrases & Sayings
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In what circumstance in Denmark would one use the proverb "Hvis og hvis min røv er spids og fyldt med marmelade"?
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or an Ed's gnome's red hat "being pointy and filled with Seville marmalade."
21:13 Mon 23rd Apr 2012
If you google and translate it, it's if about an unlikely combination of circiumstances...
I think the closest you will get is Swedeheart and she hardly ever visits us nowadays.
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i guess it must be an unlikely set of circumstances as THECORBYLOON suggests, it's just an odd way to express it but they probably think the same about some of our sayings
It seems to be a slightly coarse way of saying never, or when Hell freezes over.
If there are too many unknowns in a hypothetical, the chance of it being true is zero, just like the hypothetical situation of "an ass being pointy and filled with marmalade."
or an Ed's gnome's red hat "being pointy and filled with Seville marmalade."
if and only if ass pointy and filled with marmalade

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