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Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2010 5:39 am**

Tesshu wrote:
cdobe wrote:In Germany we say: 'The dumbest farmers harvest the biggest potatoes'

Actually we say "Die dümmsten Bauern ernten die dicksten Kartoffeln." Otherwise nobody would understand you in Germany.

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2010 6:26 am**

Love the way these yammy threads go -- and how fast they get there...

...oh, why the hell not, here's another one for good measure. It's happy time!

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:32 pm**

how's the weather?

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2010 2:36 pm**

qiphlow wrote:how's the weather?

If you stare at this image long enough, a map of the United States will appear in the background.

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2010 6:19 pm**

Cdobe:

SNIP
Andy,
the only one, that is still frequently used, is the last phrase. For instance, I often say it out loud after reading one of your postings.
SNIP

For some reason which I cannot understand, I tend to generate the same reaction from a lot of people...people whose nationalities are not restricted to monocle und lederhosen wearers.

BTW, those are some damned fine potatoes you Germans have over there. Distant memory suggests to me that the German word for spud is "busen"? Am I right?

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2010 9:46 pm**

Andy_S wrote:Really? The German literature which I (avidly) studied in my youth was full of phrases like:
Gott in himmell!
Achtung! Schpitfeur!
Die Englander! Die!

I don't recall Goethe or Schiller ever having written "achtung, Englischer schweinhund!", "donner und blitzen!!" and similar literary gems. Perhaps I went to the wrong school.

Are such Teutonic phrases no longer current? And do any of you fellows have a monocle?

I don't think the good Europeans of modern Germany approve of our sense of humour. Unfortunately I had to sell my monocle to buy rations.

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2010 10:19 pm**

Martin wrote:
qiphlow wrote:how's the weather?

If you stare at this image long enough, a map of the United States will appear in the background.

LMAO!!

still staring...still not seeing this alleged map...

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2010 11:15 pm**

Martin wrote:
qiphlow wrote:how's the weather?

If you stare at this image long enough, a map of the United States will appear in the background.

nice one.

Posted: **Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:15 am**

Lazyboxer:

SNIP
I don't recall Goethe or Schiller ever having written "achtung, Englischer schweinhund!", "donner und blitzen!!" and similar literary gems. Perhaps I went to the wrong school.
SNIP

Yes, yes, those phrases also resound! Not Goethe, you say? Hmmm, where could I possibly have encountered them?

Martin and Qiphlow:

Outstanding set of spuds on the weather girl. In a movement of vegetal empathy, my trouser turnip is responding.

Posted: **Sat Dec 18, 2010 4:33 am**

lazyboxer wrote:
Andy_S wrote:Really? The German literature which I (avidly) studied in my youth was full of phrases like:
Gott in himmell!
Achtung! Schpitfeur!
Die Englander! Die!

I don't recall Goethe or Schiller ever having written "achtung, Englischer schweinhund!", "donner und blitzen!!" and similar literary gems. Perhaps I went to the wrong school.
Are such Teutonic phrases no longer current? And do any of you fellows have a monocle?

I don't think the good Europeans of modern Germany approve of our sense of humour. Unfortunately I had to sell my monocle to buy rations.

What I personally don't approve, is how English speaking folks often don't care the least to be accurate when it comes to foreign languages. I have even watched movies like Die Hard or TV-series like Scrubs in English and the "native" Germans were basically talking gibberish $:-\$

In the interest of our mutual cultural exchange, I have prepared some phrases for you as well:
For Andy: "TeetYme, TeetymE", "Got safe the kwEEn"
For Lazyboxer: "ok, ok, CunnsTeetooshn, alwrite?"

Posted: **Sat Dec 18, 2010 10:01 am**

hey, don;t lump all us english speakers together.. i think you mean't Hollywood is a bunch of cultural retards..

Posted: **Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:46 am**

knopfloch!
(sorry, that's all the german i know.)

Posted: **Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:36 pm**

qiphlow wrote:knopfloch!
(sorry, that's all the german i know.)

Then you will like "Klappstuhl".

A Turkish-German comedian recently said about the modern Germans, that they are way too tolerant in order to get rid of the old Nazi cliché.

Something more political:

Posted: **Sat Dec 18, 2010 3:55 pm**

Posted: **Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:28 pm**

Tesshu wrote:
qiphlow wrote:knopfloch!
(sorry, that's all the german i know.)

Then you will like "Klappstuhl".

Kissenschlacht 8-)

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