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shared birthdays: Hyla/Shoshannah
Downright weird. This is an area of my life where I have experienced a disproportionate share of synchronicity. In college, I twice lived next-door to someone who shared my birthday, and once lived upstairs from one person with my birthday at the same time I was living next door to someone with my birthday. Currently, my next-door neighbor has the same birthday as well. Weird.
It would happen that at AWAD, another important area of my life, there'd be someone with the same birthday.
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There's nowt so queer as life - to adapt the Yorkshire phrase. My daughter's partner's father (you might say, her father-out-law  ) not only shares a birth anniversary, but the actual birth DAY with me.
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> you've been living up to your moniker lately No, no. I've been living it up with Monika lately. > There's nowt so queer as life In Baveria there's the highly philosophical  : Dinge gibt's, die gibt's gar net
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Dinge gibt's, die gibt's gar net
Despite having a very German last name (Reiner) and a very Germanic appearance (blond hair, blue eyes, fair skin), my tongue is apparently not German. My greatest achievement in the language was to order 100 grams of cheese in a shop while Eurailing my way out of Germany years ago. So - translation of the above, please?
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So - translation of the above, please?
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Hyla brings up a good point. I would appreciate translations whenever foreign phrases are used, as I am not proficient in any language except mine own.
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... and that's not even standard German. It's Bavarian dialect. If our whippersnapper does not provide a translation soon, I'll be glad to hazard a guess.
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In reply to:
Dinge gibt's, die gibt's gar net
I really don't know any German dialects, but I have a guess to offer. How many of you have ever seen the original film Die Blaue Engel with Marlene Dietrich? She sang a song in that (also recorded it -- I have it on disc) which went, in part,
Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß
auf Liebe eingestellt,
denn das is meine Welt,
und dann : gar nichts !
I'm in love from head to foot
for that's my world;
and then : nothing at all.
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< Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß>
Hi Bob: Of course, this song is probably much better known in its English translation as "Falling in love again", but the original German version sounds much better. Great film, too!
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Looks like January's kinda a slow month. Anyone want to do something about that?
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