> [Original Message] > From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 10/1/2006 1:54:18 AM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Joke > > >>I remember the name of > > > Michael Pfeiffer, my eighth grade German teacher, who died > in the March of my my eighth grade German class. One day he > was intonating the old aus-ausser-bei-mit-nach-zeit-von-zu; > the next day he was dead. He was in his twenties and looked > like a young Vasily Smyslov. They told us it was a heart attack. > Looks like Vasily Smyslov does he? This is during the Cold War presumably? And no doubt he was teaching you *East* German. Wearing a trench coat and casting a big shadow on the wall. Has a nondescript girl friend and lives in a small room where he decodes mysterious messages. One day he has a heart attack, known at headquarters as "catching the Russian flu" ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html