Germany is a land of whimsy

[Olaf]

Are you sure the bunker is on 47th street, Heinrich?
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2628/375 ... 1ff0_o.jpg

Ha! That's a Muni bus so that's around my parts.

Actually I know exactly where that is, that is the Legion of Honor.

Um, San Francisco is not in Germany.

They're disguising as tourists.

[Dr. Medulla]

From an email makin' the rounds, and forwarded to me by my brudder:

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where! more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

[Olaf]

I consider English a dialect of German anyway. Just like Dutch or Bavarian.

[eumaas]

Lexically almost a romance language!

[Wolter]

Lexically almost a romance language!

Great, we get the Limeys on one side and the Jerries on the other.

[Wolter]

This is the most fucked up headline I've read in a while. Thanks, Germany!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... dozer.html

[rcs]

This is the most fucked up headline I've read in a while. Thanks, Germany!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... dozer.html

stole a bulldozer for the getaway!

[Dr. Medulla]

This is the most fucked up headline I've read in a while. Thanks, Germany!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... dozer.html

Olaf yawns and says, "What, again?"

[Olaf]

I'm just glad to hear the puppy is safe. [/Jen B]

[Wolter]

I'm just glad to hear the puppy is safe. [/Jen B]

Actually, so was I. Had the puppy died, I wouldn't have linked it on Facebook, for fear of saddening Ali.

[Dr. Medulla]

I'm just glad to hear the puppy is safe. [/Jen B]

Actually, so was I. Had the puppy died, I wouldn't have linked it on Facebook, for fear of saddening Ali.

I can't recall whose bon mot it was—Wolter, I think; maybe Tep—but I've related the puppy mill exchange when someone asked what a puppy mill is and was told, "That's where you make puppy flour." Just perfect.

[JennyB]

I'm just glad to hear the puppy is safe. [/Jen B]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I didn't respond, but I was very tempted to ask why there was no warning!

[tepista]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... dozer.html

[Olaf]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... dozer.html

I think I've read that before, can't remember where.

[Dr. Medulla]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... dozer.html

I think I've read that before, can't remember where.

Tep doesn't read all kinds of threads.