Posted in Austen, movies and misc on 29 January 2007 | No Comments »
So I was going to go to Paris for my birthday, actually DH and my birthdays together, since mine is on Feb 3 and his is Feb 9. HOWEVER, Paris just faded into nothingness when I learned that an English theater troupe is going to do a version of Pride and Prejudice on the same [...]
Posted in Austen, movies and misc on 2 January 2007 | No Comments »
We made our annual Three Kings pilgrimage to Strasbourg today. It’s really all about the food, since the only consistent things we do are have a fabulous lunch and buy a Galette du Roi, puff pastry with an almond cream.
We visited the cathedral and saw many of the tapestries - wonderful. We ended up lunching [...]
Posted in Austen, movies and misc on 9 December 2006 | No Comments »
29 Things to Make You Forget About the Tooth You Just Chipped
1.If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
2. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren’t people from Holland called Holes?
3. Why do we say something is out of whack? What’s a whack?
4. Do infants [...]
Posted in Austen, movies and misc on 24 November 2006 | No Comments »
Dear Daughter made a right of passage today. She wanted to go visit a friend for a birthday party, three hours away by train. So she made the trip safely, and is now partying with about 70 other older teens.
The interesting part about this in Germany is we were able to sign a form that [...]
Posted in Austen, movies and misc on 22 September 2006 | No Comments »
Seriously funny
Only choice
Found missing
Almost exactly
Original copy
Jumbo shrimp
Pretty ugly
Same difference
Definite maybe
Act naturally
Deafening silence
Minor crisis
Larger half
Liquid gas
Working holiday
Open secret
Exact estimate
Hell’s Angels
Clearly confused
Genuine imitation
Poets think it’s sublime when the words they write rhyme,
But to Teachers and Students, they’re trouble.
Is it right to write white or is it rite to right wight,
And when do those consonants double?
Is it ‘i’ [...]
Posted in Austen, movies and misc on 22 September 2006 | No Comments »
Understanding Americanese is not as easy as one might think. Try this on for size:
If you are selling a product, what does an Ami really mean when he says the following:
I am interested in your product.
You have a very interesting product.
Number 1 is generally what it says - the Ami wants to know more about [...]
Posted in Austen, movies and misc on 1 September 2006 | No Comments »
Why in the world do people on limited incomes not see how they waste money? When my family was dirt poor, we knew it, and we knew what we could not buy. Our poverty was our fault, due to my stepfather’s compulsive gambling. My mother did what she could to keep us going, including lying [...]
Posted in Austen, movies and misc on 27 June 2006 | No Comments »
Bruno the bear was killed yesterday.
See http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2068219,00.html
He was a brown bear, the first to re-enter Germany in over 170 years. But he was marauding, killing animals for sport as well as food, and was becoming too comfortable with people and civilization. So they hunted him wiht tranquilizers and scientists. At a cost of probably more [...]
