Hey guys,

I'm on a plane traveling to Gamescom in Germany. I'll be off the net for a bit.

Jason

Envy, envy...apart from the culture which I've always liked, you'll be around some excellent food! MMMM...beef rouladen, spaetzle, and so on...

Be careful or you'll come back 50 pounds heavier and wearing lederhosen, you'll hafta go real light on fuel loads to fly and you'll be an obvious target

[MF] Gunloon

Don't forget all that yummy beer

Best of luck, Jason!

not in the area of Cologne

Kölsch!

hm, that's amazingly correct spellwise and contextwise, how comes you are so familiar ?

Michael

Mmmmm.. loved Kölsch when I visited. Shame it was served in such tiny glasses though. One swallow and it was gone!

but you will get automaticly a new one from the Köbes if you are not putting your beermat on the emtpty glass

there is a joke going like this:

Three buddies going for a beer, when the waiter asks for the round, the one from Cologne says "For me, a Kölsch",

the other one from Dusseldorf (DUS, a neighboring and historically competing city to Cologne)
"an Alt for me"
(Alt is the Dusseldorfion flavor of beer, their pendant to Kölsch, served traditionally in tiny glasses as well)

Now it was the turn of number three:
"I'll have a Coke, thanks"

... his friends asking in disbelief "Hey, what's wrong, are you sick or what?"
- "no, but since you both won't drink beer, I won't neither."

never mind

Michael

I once had a screenplay idea for a post-Apocalyptic world that had adopted solely Germanic culture, and had deifed Goethe as a prophet of God, who would one day return. The survivors led by a noble Kaiser lived on the oceans, in Giant sausage shaped Galleons, sailing amidst a Pilsner Sea. Never quite took off though. Kevin Costners lawyers were in hot pursuit, what is this 'waterworld' they speak of? I know nothing.

No sense of humour.

Kevin Costner, not Germans!

'Das Hokey Kokey'.....Bill Bailey vs Kraftwerk (LMAO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5P7RsC9TI

Excellent!


PS Surely 'Costner' must be of German origin? Linguistically, I mean.

I wouldn't know why. "Costner" has no meaning in German and it is highly uncommon for words beginning with a "K" sound to lexically start with a "C".

Yes, most likely, roots from the German "Kastner", "Kaestner" and such. I think, it means "treasurer" in the context of early villages.

Michael.

EDIT:

Edit:

- now, I don't think "Hokey Kokey" is a German word

well, it depends on the amount of drunken Kölsch

Ich bin Däne und ich wohne in Brüssel. Ich kenne Deutschland ziemlich gut.

Excellent research. Shows that Costner is most probably of German origin. At Ellis Island they habitually changed K to C.

Jäger (hunter) became Yeager in the US. A quite fitting name for Chuck Yeager...

I am reading "Roede Orm" to my children (mostly to my seven years old son) every evening these weeks. one chapter a day. Wir mögen die Dänen sehr. We visited Haithabu as well this year.

Michael.

At Ellis Island they habitually changed K to C

That's where Kahn morphed into Cohen then perhaps, thanks I'd wondered about the Cohens. Hmm say Kahn in a guttural accent heard by an American-accented brain

Ming