So many examples of wit in that article alone:
This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.
Now there are more adjectives in this language than there are black cats in Switzerland.
I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
A good idea, in this language, is necessarily conspicuous from its lonesomeness.
In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has.
If he ends by trying to comfort himself with the thought that he can at least depend on a third of this mess as being manly and masculine, the humiliating
second thought will quickly remind him that in this respect he is no better off than any woman or cow in the land.
To describe a wife as sexless may be called under-description.
In Germany, when you load your conversational gun it is always best to throw in a Schlag or two and a Zug or two, because it
doesn't make any difference how much the rest of the charge may scatter, you are bound to bag something with them.
Would any man want to die in a battle which was called by so tame a term as a Schlacht?
Observe the strongest of the several German equivalents for explosion -- Ausbruch. Our word Toothbrush is more powerful than that.
Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than with a shovel.
I challenge jim to slip as many of these into his upcoming chapters as he dares. ;-)
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Posts: 403 ( 3-Jan-2008 09:49:28) |
I see, so you have on your right SMS Augsburg followed by SMS Augsberg, in the center SMS Regenburg followed by SMS Regensberg and on the left SMS Kolberg
followed by SMS Kolburg.
The question is if SMS Königsberg will be supported in the Rufidji by SMS Königsburg and whether SMS Nürnburg escaped Falkland. And is SMS Luebeck a sister of SMS Lübeck? |
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Posts: 264 ( 3-Jan-2008 19:19:45) |
Hi, jim. I'm back and reading again after a distracting medical issue. All's well now, so back to Letterstime and the other tales of this board.
Among all the holiday cheer, and puns, it's a nice touch that Herr Ballin thinks the birth is more worthy of his attention than the messenger from the HSF commander. I like the idea of artistic pictures of the fountain formerly, and soon to be again, known as SMS Helgoland. The scene with De Robeck reviewing his duties and options shows that some time has gone by, since he has the wireless message from Inconstant. The OOB report is particularly accurate. That acting commander should be named in despatches and perhaps history books. I wouldn't stretch the avatar exclusion rule to cover him in this situation, though. Von Hoban is reviewing his duties, too, particularly against his preferences for beergardens. His POV is a good place the Sieg ... hell. I'm surprised that he thinks the baron wears braid in such a funny place, though. Was the father's name, Josef, as much a part of the set-up as Patience? British DDs trailing wreaths of smoke sounds better on the night before christmas than in the middle of July. Did that 9th DD have its bows painted red? It's becoming routine for Necki, etc. to dispatch rescue and move on in pursuit. The best part of this chapter is, of course, the birth and the big deal everyone makes of it, embedded puns not withstanding. I'm not as enamored of Hadi as some others, but he did well sniffing out the intrigue this time. |
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but dont worry, at least from what i remember, go east - try szech .... they have 8 cases ! (german some less ...)
TM edit : actually I like Mark Twain a lot, like when he wrote about his time as a Missisipi - pilot ... there was quite some wit behind these eyes.
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Posts: 2263 ( 3-Jan-2008 20:26:28) |
Ooooooooo - I'm green with envy. Polish has only 7 cases.
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Posts: 696 ( 3-Jan-2008 21:53:12) |
What is this Sense Franken thing?
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Posts: 2265 ( 3-Jan-2008 22:42:12) |
The little bundle of joy.
Don't just skim over the parts without warships in them! 
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Posts: 8727 ( 4-Jan-2008 03:36:27) Generally Obscure |
jab383 -
Welcome back indeed! Hope all is better, Thanx for the detailed feedback! ;-) In order: 1) Ballin got distracted before the boat left Moltke. His officer is following general instructions. 2) I should put a link in for Longwood, but did not. I had hoped to find one with a pic of those fountains and, pressed for time, posted w/o one because my first round of web searches came up empty. 3) It was, in fact, probably too accurate. However, an erroneous signal that DeR took too seriously could generate a decision GT, so I erred on the side of accuracy. (as odd as that sounds!) The Inconstant acting-CO is not an avatar, so he will be left to the tender mercies of jim's polygon solids. 4) Von Hoban is POed and feels let down and he wants his beer! If this keeps up, vH will be fantasizing about repositioning some of Letters metals where he said the braid was. 5) Yes, part of the setup! But that would have been transportable, while Patience would not have been. 6) Nice! ;-) 7) Necki, Letters' mop up leader Heehee!  Gald that scene worked! I had thought to have Hadi think more, like about exceeding the others' presents, but any more than a hint seemed to become
distracting. It was supposed to be evocative of the Luca Brazi (Brasi?) scene at the wedding reception for the daughter of Don Corleone. I left a hint of it,
and had to hope it would be enough.
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Posts: 1070 ( 5-Jan-2008 20:56:59) |
Well the DSN battle is over. The Great One has weighed back into the story. The Contessa has had a cameo. Engineer women have asserted kitchen dominance.
Time for the Baron to get his floating circus back to Wilhelmshaven before some British sub gets lucky. The Baron has to get a handle on what happened in American waters. Once he gets that, I think he grants Blue Fox a short (and fairtly vanilla) interview and (upon arrival) gets him discreetly to Italy to take an American or Italian ship back to the US. Maybe more on this later. Maybe Borys and Conda stagger in shortly. Necki gets an eyeful of the GF, swaps a few salvos and splits for home, maybe dusting a coastal town or two with his BCs. America is thoroughly in the dark as to what has happened, so they are out of the story for a while. Likewise, the Russians are clueless. Now the eye of LT needs to look into Britain and at the Archangel Force. Jim will be busy. |
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Posts: 8732 ( 5-Jan-2008 23:40:17) Generally Obscure |
P3D -
On little Mister Sense Franken, keep in mind that the chapter was posted on December 25, 2007. The other Xmas LT chapter happened in the chapter where Imperator docked in Philadelphia. ;-) |
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