2 Jul
2009
2 Jul
'09
3:46 p.m.
Rumor has it that Jochen Kunz may have mentioned these words:
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:26:04 +0200
SPC <spedraja at ono.com> wrote:
In my neck of the woods, souvenir stores are called "fudgie shops" as many
of them started out as & prominently feature handmade fudge. (and yes,
tourists are called "fudgies" as well; i.e. people who come & tour all the
fudgie shops.)
We have one called "Das Gift Haus" - perfectly good German for:
The Poison House.
I asked once if they kept arsenic in stock, the onshift salesmonkey
(usually current or former [read: dropout] college students) just looked at
me funny, even after I explained the translated meaning of the name of the
establishment. Must've been one of the dropouts. ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Martin de Jode
In Germany the family name
"Fickeisen" isn't that uncommon.
(Fick should be obvious and Eisen means iron.)