Showing posts with label German. Show all posts
Showing posts with label German. Show all posts
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Daily Dose
From Frederick the Great, by Nancy Mitford
SO
"He was so fond of fruit, hitherto unknown in Brandenburg, that speculators built glasshouses in order to supply him with it at enormous prices."
From Chapter 13, Sans Souci
Monday, October 8, 2018
Clerihew in No Man's land
ERICH MARIE REMARQUE
Erich Marie Remarque
Deciding to embark
On a novel of the grunt
and wrote All Quiet on the Western Front.
Monday, March 13, 2017
Clerihew of a Thwarted Swiss
ROBERT WALSER
Robert Walser
Got an ulcer
Trying to do literary work
While earning his living as a little clerk.
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Berlin Clerihew
ALFRED DOBLIN
Alfred Döblin
Thought it mean
When Wiemar's Social Democrats
Pissed on Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Friday, November 11, 2016
Friday, October 21, 2016
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Friday, June 3, 2016
Monday, March 23, 2015
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Daily Dose
THIRTEEN
"In the hospital yesterday, a word of thirteen syllables was successfully removed from a patient -- a North German from near Hamburg; but as most unfortunately the surgeons opened him in the wrong place, under the impression that he contained a panorama, he died. The sad event has cast a gloom over the whole community."
From The Awful German Language
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