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Tag Archives: Germany
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Today was a big day. I read about the world’s oldest joke and heard an old favorite, Haydn’s Symphony No. 93, on XM Radio.
Okay, here’s the joke, recorded ca. 1900 BCE by a Sumerian who shall remain nameless:
Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.
Hey, [...]
Spiel
Well, the Germans have arrived. Five out of five comments in the spam filter today came from Deutschland. All for poker sites.
I will say this for them: the comments were extremely terse, with only one link apiece. Chinese spam comments go on and on and on …
Beer
Make that “water filtered through a horse”:
[German soccer fans] are furious that Budweiser will be the official tipple for the World Cup, which starts next month. The American lager has secured a near-monopoly of beer sales inside World Cup stadiums and within a 500m radius of the grounds, supplanting more than 1,270 domestic breweries.
A Bavarian [...]
Meat
The local PBS station is begging for money again, and to get our attention they’re running old episodes of Julia Child’s The French Chef. Last Saturday she made several dishes using potatoes. It was the first installment, apparently, from 1963— “in glorious black and white,” as they say. She didn’t manage to flip the first [...]
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