We usually call lawyers solicitors. The US friends she was staying with let her hang herself for a week or so before finally explaining why people kept giving her weird looks when she told them what she did for a living.
ahhhhhh ... for christ sake ... hahaha - thank you very much indeed ...
See Carol, where I'm sitting, the green hills abutt the sea and the sun is just about to rise over the Pacific Ocean at which point sea and sky will begin their daily battle to claim who is the bluest. A battle neither of them can ever win. It's rather idyllic. I guess that's why they called it Eden.
Give me the latitude and longitude and I'll be right over.
I crave what you have. \
Carol
PS However, I suppose I really should mention that I do actually live in a world-class resort area. heh.
This thread just keeps getting funnier and funnier. ...
you want fun? there you are crazychester.
This woman rushes to see her doctor, looking very much worried and all strung out. She rattles off, "Doctor, take a look at me. When I woke up this morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and saw my hair all wiry and frazzled up, my skin was all wrinkled and pasty, my eyes were bloodshot and bugging out, and I had this corpse-like look on my face! What's wrong with me, Doctor?"
The doctor looks her over for a couple of minutes, then calmly says, "Well, I can tell you that there ain't nothing wrong with your eyesight ..."
Oh Vox Barbara now you're just making me paranoid! That's exactly what I look like just about now [insert smiley that doesn't exist with eyes narrowing suspiciously]. Have you smuggled an iSight into my place? (Chester takes time out to search house for hidden camera). Can't find it but when I do you'll be sorry.
Fortunately, when the Geisterstunde rolls round I turn back into a pumpkin.
Anyway I'm still laughing about the world resort thing. You got me there Carol. World resort Eden ain't. Power outtages are so common the local supermarket has it's own back-up generator (nothing like grocery shopping by candle power!) and if you want mobile phone reception, sorry, but you'll have to walk to the top of the hill.
Anymore remote and I'd be doing a Bogucki (reference to American Robert Bogucki who went wandering in the Simpson Desert to find himself.......and got lost. It's OK. We found him, gave him a couple of bananas, let a TV crew torment him for a day or two and then packed him off home with a stern warning not to do it again).
Anyway I'm still laughing about the world resort thing. You got me there Carol. World resort Eden ain't. Power outtages are so common the local supermarket has it's own back-up generator (nothing like grocery shopping by candle power!) and if you want mobile phone reception, sorry, but you'll have to walk to the top of the hill.
Anymore remote and I'd be doing a Bogucki (reference to American Robert Bogucki who went wandering in the Simpson Desert to find himself.......and got lost. It's OK. We found him, gave him a couple of bananas, let a TV crew torment him for a day or two and then packed him off home with a stern warning not to do it again).
Hi Chester -
No problem about the power outtages. Eden sounds great to me. I used to backpack a lot, and have no objection to living close to the earth and the essence of things.
Though I live in a world-class resort area (five stars!), I have never sampled the 'luxury' of those five-star places. I could - but just haven't gotten around to it. Know what I mean???
I would love living without a phone at all! I love camping in the pine forests of my state - cooking gourmet meals on a two-burner propane stove; reading, writing, thinking; writing songs to sing while I play my guitar. The beauty of the surroundings is what makes my soul take flight. That, and peace and quiet. The sound of the waves, the birds, the crickets. Nothing is more lovely than nature in its purest form. No mobile phones needed.
A German guy I used to kick around with at university taught it to me. And in the 20 or so years that have passed since then I am proud to say I have dropped that word on every German or German speaker I have come in contact with just to get their reaction. Which always seems to be pretty much along the lines of "how the hell do you know that?"
Anyway, as using it again around here would be too much like repeating myself, you are the first and last to have the honour Vox Barbara. It's a wonderful word. Strange the gifts you're given along the road sometimes.
I also have one for Giaguara (I'm assuming she speaks Italian). But as it's a whole sentence, I'm saving it up for a special occasion. 8)
...Anyway, as using it again around here would be too much like repeating myself, you are the first and last to have the honour Vox Barbara. It's a wonderful word.
My honour, sir
Actually, i am pretty much stretching HOW you gonna to pronounce it
There is another german word which always pops up to me, when i face the american government (and german and many others) these times. It is Gruselkabinett. It is a term taken from panopticum. But use it very occasionaly
Oh f**king hell! If I'd known AO was this much fun I'd have stopped by much sooner. I only came to hide out here because there are so many grumpy pants about over in The Main Game at the moment (I put it down to the lack of action - makes 'em all antsy).
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Originally posted by Vox Barbara Gruselkabinett.
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Love it. Had to work for it though. Couldn't find it the first place I looked. I'll be trying that one out.
I have a friend whose German parents emigrated here after the war. She's since married a pom (yeah John Cleese and Fawlty Towers have a lot to answer for). In our profession, it's traditional for women to keep their maiden names. Plus she didn't seem the type to give up her own name.
When I asked her one day why she'd done it, she patiently explained to me that her maiden name was Teitz. When she married, she welcomed with open arms the chance to put all the "Show us your Teitz" jokes behind her.
Almost drags this thread kicking and screaming back on track, doesn't it?
Almost but not quite.
PS Spelling phonetically, my guess at the pronunciation of Gruselkabinett would be something along the lines of Grooselkharbinett.
PS Spelling phonetically, my guess at the pronunciation of Gruselkabinett would be something along the lines of Grooselkharbinett.
yeah, Grooselkharbinett seems to be rrrrrright. From a phonetical point of view at least
That kicks and pushs (or rather spread?) the utter thread to an other direction indeed, -- perhaps freely german integration into standard american speech or something like that, i am completly muddled, don't worry, it is a state i love I almost always pretty much stunned to hear german linguistic adoptions an' adaptations in american language. I almost always fetch some funky fun with that ... not to mention kindergarten or kitsch.
I used to live Dundee in scotland it I had trouble understand the weegi (glasgow) accent It took me weeks to get my head round the whole scottish accent. I also have a friend in Halifax in Yorkshire in england and they have inhability to say H which is an odd thing when you town prononced Alifacks. My mate went to San Fran and they all thought he was an aussie, go figure. Im from north England Lancaster, and we tried our selves to get rid of our god forsaken northen slang I have got there really and it is really quite tame thank god. I now sound like a watered down middle class Cumbrian from the Lake district. Ok thats all i need to say
ahh yeah and all you yanks who think that the word pants is american is sadly wrong. In the north west lancaster we have always pronounced pants and not trousers so someone from my hone town must have thought of that
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Originally posted by crazychester
We usually call lawyers solicitors. The US friends she was staying with let her hang herself for a week or so before finally explaining why people kept giving her weird looks when she told them what she did for a living.
ahhhhhh ... for christ sake ... hahaha - thank you very much indeed ...
Originally posted by crazychester
See Carol, where I'm sitting, the green hills abutt the sea and the sun is just about to rise over the Pacific Ocean at which point sea and sky will begin their daily battle to claim who is the bluest. A battle neither of them can ever win. It's rather idyllic. I guess that's why they called it Eden.
Give me the latitude and longitude and I'll be right over.
I crave what you have.
Carol
PS However, I suppose I really should mention that I do actually live in a world-class resort area. heh.
Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah
I got off a plane from Cape Town, the parliamentary capital of South Africa, and not New Zealand...
Originally posted by Aquafire
It doesn't matter..I know what you meant..
Originally posted by Carol A
THE END
... Credits roll ...
and now to something very different. (to be cont'd)
Originally posted by crazychester
This thread just keeps getting funnier and funnier. ...
you want fun? there you are crazychester.
This woman rushes to see her doctor, looking very much worried and all strung out. She rattles off, "Doctor, take a look at me. When I woke up this morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and saw my hair all wiry and frazzled up, my skin was all wrinkled and pasty, my eyes were bloodshot and bugging out, and I had this corpse-like look on my face! What's wrong with me, Doctor?"
The doctor looks her over for a couple of minutes, then calmly says, "Well, I can tell you that there ain't nothing wrong with your eyesight ..."
Fortunately, when the Geisterstunde rolls round I turn back into a pumpkin.
Anyway I'm still laughing about the world resort thing. You got me there Carol. World resort Eden ain't. Power outtages are so common the local supermarket has it's own back-up generator (nothing like grocery shopping by candle power!) and if you want mobile phone reception, sorry, but you'll have to walk to the top of the hill.
Anymore remote and I'd be doing a Bogucki (reference to American Robert Bogucki who went wandering in the Simpson Desert to find himself.......and got lost. It's OK. We found him, gave him a couple of bananas, let a TV crew torment him for a day or two and then packed him off home with a stern warning not to do it again).
Originally posted by crazychester
Anyway I'm still laughing about the world resort thing. You got me there Carol. World resort Eden ain't. Power outtages are so common the local supermarket has it's own back-up generator (nothing like grocery shopping by candle power!) and if you want mobile phone reception, sorry, but you'll have to walk to the top of the hill.
Anymore remote and I'd be doing a Bogucki (reference to American Robert Bogucki who went wandering in the Simpson Desert to find himself.......and got lost. It's OK. We found him, gave him a couple of bananas, let a TV crew torment him for a day or two and then packed him off home with a stern warning not to do it again).
Hi Chester -
No problem about the power outtages. Eden sounds great to me. I used to backpack a lot, and have no objection to living close to the earth and the essence of things.
Though I live in a world-class resort area (five stars!), I have never sampled the 'luxury' of those five-star places. I could - but just haven't gotten around to it. Know what I mean???
I would love living without a phone at all! I love camping in the pine forests of my state - cooking gourmet meals on a two-burner propane stove; reading, writing, thinking; writing songs to sing while I play my guitar. The beauty of the surroundings is what makes my soul take flight. That, and peace and quiet. The sound of the waves, the birds, the crickets. Nothing is more lovely than nature in its purest form. No mobile phones needed.
Originally posted by Carol A
The sound of the waves, the birds, the crickets.
And the sound of Mooses mating, Koalas grunting, Galahs making whoopee..
Oh and don't forget the blood sucking Vampire bugs we have.
So you better pack your own flamethrower...
Originally posted by Aquafire
And the sound of Mooses mating, Koalas grunting, Galahs making whoopee..
Oh and don't forget the blood sucking Vampire bugs we have.
So you better pack your own flamethrower...
I thought it was supposed to be Eden!!!???
I need not remind you that the original Eden was filled with Apples.
But nowadays most people are forced to live in a Microsoft jungle.......
And we all know it is filled with bugs...
Aqua
Originally posted by crazychester
[insert smiley that doesn't exist with eyes narrowing suspiciously].
hear mod could we just have such one, please
Originally posted by crazychester
... when the Geisterstunde rolls round I turn back into a pumpkin.
BTW, where did you get that from?
Originally posted by crazychester
That's exactly what I look like just about now...
i will keep po-faced.
Originally posted by Vox Barbara
BTW, where did you get that from?
A German guy I used to kick around with at university taught it to me. And in the 20 or so years that have passed since then I am proud to say I have dropped that word on every German or German speaker I have come in contact with just to get their reaction. Which always seems to be pretty much along the lines of "how the hell do you know that?"
Anyway, as using it again around here would be too much like repeating myself, you are the first and last to have the honour Vox Barbara. It's a wonderful word. Strange the gifts you're given along the road sometimes.
I also have one for Giaguara (I'm assuming she speaks Italian). But as it's a whole sentence, I'm saving it up for a special occasion. 8)
Originally posted by crazychester
...Anyway, as using it again around here would be too much like repeating myself, you are the first and last to have the honour Vox Barbara. It's a wonderful word.
My honour, sir
Actually, i am pretty much stretching HOW you gonna to pronounce it
There is another german word which always pops up to me, when i face the american government (and german and many others) these times. It is Gruselkabinett. It is a term taken from panopticum. But use it very occasionaly
Originally posted by Vox Barbara Gruselkabinett.
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Love it. Had to work for it though. Couldn't find it the first place I looked. I'll be trying that one out.
I have a friend whose German parents emigrated here after the war. She's since married a pom (yeah John Cleese and Fawlty Towers have a lot to answer for). In our profession, it's traditional for women to keep their maiden names. Plus she didn't seem the type to give up her own name.
When I asked her one day why she'd done it, she patiently explained to me that her maiden name was Teitz. When she married, she welcomed with open arms the chance to put all the "Show us your Teitz" jokes behind her.
Almost drags this thread kicking and screaming back on track, doesn't it?
Almost but not quite.
PS Spelling phonetically, my guess at the pronunciation of Gruselkabinett would be something along the lines of Grooselkharbinett.
Originally posted by crazychester
** *uc**** ****!
...
"Show us your Teitz"
LOL
PS Spelling phonetically, my guess at the pronunciation of Gruselkabinett would be something along the lines of Grooselkharbinett.
yeah, Grooselkharbinett seems to be rrrrrright. From a phonetical point of view at least
That kicks and pushs (or rather spread?
best
ahh yeah and all you yanks who think that the word pants is american is sadly wrong. In the north west lancaster we have always pronounced pants and not trousers so someone from my hone town must have thought of that
PANTS ARE LANCASTRIAN