[HUG ] Re: SV: Re: SV: IMG: Recent Trips

As Mark said, that was back in the 70s. Now I'm just a bald(ing) eagle...
:-)

 Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:05:15 PM
Subject: [HUG ] Re: SV: Re: SV: IMG: Recent Trips

Eagle = Adler auf Deutsch
Adler = dork in English
Therefore...

Tom, you made me do it!

;-)

Jim


On Jun 24, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Tom Just Olsen wrote:
>
> No.  I looked up my 2000 word German/Norwegian 'tourist phrase  
> book' (haben sie unterhosen hier? - type of a thing), but found  
> nothing on 'dork'.  My old 15.000 word German/Norwegian dictionary  
> is somewhere in the house, - I'll look it up.  We had compulsory 5  
> years with German in my time at school.  I am not that good at it,  
> but can find my way around Germany and handle simple phrases with a  
> German telephone switchboard operators and so on, in my business.  I  
> speak German 'fluently' when I am drunk, they say.  Just give me a  
> schnaps and I'll be as good an orator as...well, forget it.
>
> Adlerhorst means eagle's nest, by the way.
>
> I liked learning languages and regret that I did not take it more  
> seriously.  We had a few years of French too, but I make total fool  
> of myself whenever I go with my wife to a Paris restaurant and try  
> my skills, - my wife say.  Her French is excellent.
>
> Tom of Oslo


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