prevod i okolnosti

prevod na engleski

who flies, is worthy
who is worthy, flies
who doesn't fly, isn't worthy

Another one from Grunf... mostly pointless and irrelevant, so it is quoted when someone says something that's true but useless.
From the italian original:
chi vola, vale
chi vale, vola
chi non vola, e vile

three four now
The common cue to start something on it, whatever two or more people should do synchronously. Usually there's a second's distance between the words.

We can only assume this used to be counted from one to five, and was shortened to this. Nobody remembers any other way, and everyone knows this way. No explanation, no source.

what [do you mean] read [it], walked [over it]!
[whenever you want to say you have more than indirect experience on the matter]

- Mujo, did you read "The bridge over Drina"?
- What, read? Walked on it!

just let me take the medicine to my aunt

This is from "Balkan express". It begins around 0:55, when the Gestapo guy turns his attention to Bora Todorović, who first confirms he's a musician, then denies it, then...

to drink a [high] heel
to drink a leg

Previously this was called "kick ticket", i.e. kick in the ass. To be refused or just told to fuck off. The high heel version is when coming from a lady.

mentioning the forester
whenever a dispute is not quite serious or is a fake fight, someone will mention that the forester should/will/may come.

"And so we hit from this side, and Germans from the other, then we charged and then they charged and it took all day."
"And how did it finish?"
"The forester came and ran as all out."

starts, goesSaid about anything that just works, no bells nor whistles.

A classified ad from about 1992: "Fića on sale, 260DEM. Starts, goes."
That would be about 130€ or $175. Fića was the national small car, made by Zastava until about 1981, derived from Fiat 600, long before they made the Yugo.

A students, son, A students.
Said to onyone ogling a sexy girl, or complaining about school, having bad grades.

Son brings lots of bad grades from school. Dad takes him to some rubbing.
- Do you smoke?
- No. Well, one or two sometimes.
- And what do you smoke?
- "Morava" from Niš.
- Some level. Here, take a mali Bora (Marlboro). Do you drink?
- Nooo... sometimes, at a party, one beer.
- Beer? Here's a whisky, have one. Are you looking up chicks?
- Well, some, a little, from "Start" [magazine].
- "Start"? Ouch, who made you... Grab this "Playboy". Open the centerfold.
- Whoa... who fucks these cookies?
- A students, son, A students.

doesn't even have a bicycle

A cop pulls Mujo over and starts going over his bicycle - no bell, no light, no rear light, no brakes...
- That's quite a list, it's going to cost you a big fine. Why are you laughing?
- Haso is coming behind me, and he doesn't even have a bicycle. Just thinkin' how much will you charge him...

on the channel!said to anyone looking for a free expert advice or technical help

Channel in this context is the pit under the car where the mechanic works, as in the case of the slow camel, where the fix was to get the animal "on the channel", and to have its balls hit by two bricks from each side. The camel sprinted away, and its owner asked "how do I get to it now?". "On the channel!".

don't make waves
May be said to anyone who may disturb the political status quo, no matter how small the politics.

A guy arrives to hell and gets to stand in a pool of shit, deep exactly to the mouth. He comments to his neighbors: "hey, this isn't as bad as I feared".Answer: "Don't make waves!".

my cards started going well
Googling the phrase returned 1,2 million hits. So I didn't have to retype the joke from memory :)

Haso went to England to make some cash, and soon really returned with lot of money. Mujo asks how did he earn so much money.
- Well I played poker, says Haso.
- But you play poker badly!
- In the first game I asked to see the hand of the guy who said he had a royal flush, and he answered that they play by consciousness and honesty. Then my cards started going well!!!

feed the pigs and don't touch anything(actually, the joke is already at Feed the pigs as a programming joke.
This is usually said to anyone who's messing with machinery and shouldn't, or to describe the machinery as maintenance-free.

Once they launched Mujo into orbit with three pigs. After a few orbits around the Earth, a certain bell rings. The pigs open up a compartment, take out an envelope, unwrap it, find instructions inside, and start doing as they read: reprogram the ship's computer, adjust the orbit, check the scientific instruments etc.Few orbits later, the same happens - they open up a compartment, take out another envelope, read the instructions, do as it says: reprogram the computer, adjust the orbit, check the instruments etc.The guy starts wondering - like, who's the boss around here? Who's the more advanced life form?
Next time the bell rang, he jumps to the compartment, opens the envelope, and the instructions read: "This is for you, Mujo: feed the pigs and don't touch anything"