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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jun 14, 2006
what kind of bank holiday 
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Englaender (wondering what he will be doing next) Posted Jun 14, 2006
Hm - Either Christi Himmelfahrt (Asencionday - no, that was earlier, sometime last month, before asencion day) Then it is Frohnleichnahm (Or Happy Cadaver, as we like to call it...)
This months good for bank holiday. The best place to live is in Augsburg. they have the 11 (or was it 12?) Bank Holidays, plus a day off for the "Stadtfest" Town-whatsits... The avrage german has 29 days of holidays a year, plus the bank holidays and 52x2 days for the weekend, leaves you aprox:365-144=221 days of w*rk per year (or 220, if you happen to live in Augsburg)Good eh? 
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Jun 14, 2006
no 
y wonder I can never get a German on the phone when I want to .. they never w*rk
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jun 15, 2006
makes them seem almost human, no?
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Jun 16, 2006
wellllll.... isn't that a bit .. overreacting now?
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jun 16, 2006
oh, come on. even dinos seem human
- well, at times... 
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Jun 16, 2006
* looks around *
aye, right
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Englaender (wondering what he will be doing next) Posted Jun 19, 2006
Good that you can look around and see that point 
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Jun 19, 2006
I didn't see any dinos so I thought I could safely say it
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Englaender (wondering what he will be doing next) Posted Jun 20, 2006
I guess there is no safer place than this dark corner. Anyone trying to do anything should have encountered a blackout by now... It's a miracle though how the drink keeps flowing!
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Jun 20, 2006
no miracle that. A simple physical process, pressurised barrels and all that. Our resident Dinosaur takes care of all that.
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Englaender (wondering what he will be doing next) Posted Jun 20, 2006
*wonders if he might be sitting on the back of the dinosaur, as he feels a little shaky - allthough: this could also be the effect of a wee bit certain amount of 
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wyvern Posted Jun 20, 2006
Did I get it right - both Dinos and Germans are almost human?
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Jun 20, 2006
Dinos, yes. I'm not sure about Germans .. 
because I don't know that many of course
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Englaender (wondering what he will be doing next) Posted Jun 20, 2006
I mast szay, ze mohst Tschörmens seam u-men tooh mysälf...
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Jun 20, 2006
ah.. sorry Englaender
It seems I overlooked the fact that Englaender is not an Englaender, but is a German (ok .. Tschörmen) himself.
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Englaender (wondering what he will be doing next) Posted Jun 20, 2006
Noh, Noh, ze Englander iz eih Inglischmen, but haz groan up in ze forn parts...
That is why I am Englander and not "Germen"
Yes, yes, in the old days we had a way of saying things in German here, using only english words. That was fun: like
Ha stew mall I nay Mark damn it we run set was zoo a zen cow fenn?
(have you got a Mark so we can buy ourselves something to eat?
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Hapi - Hippo #5 Posted Jun 20, 2006
how on earth was I to know Mark was German?
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Englaender (wondering what he will be doing next) Posted Jun 21, 2006
I ment the pre-Euro "Deutschmark". Oh, how they howl and grovel for the old money to be back...
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