File under F for freaky stuff you learn from your students.

Mr B’s girlfriend’s first husband was a nuclear physicist working the the Soviet Union. That’s how she met Mongolia’s ambassador to Germany; he studied in the GDR and was also a physicist in the Soviet Union in the same town as her then-husband.

The Ambassador lives in Berlin in a tent made of thick camel fleece. Mr B’s girlfriend is going to Berlin to visit him this weekend, pictures of the tent have been promised. Check back on Thursday.

Also, the Swiss German word for chicken is “Mistkratzerli”, literally manure scratcher. Soup’s on.

What is this crap?
— Michael Seezen

This was the contents of an email I got from my brother this morning. At first I thought that my Christmas package had finally arrived at his house and he didn’t care for his presents.

As it turns out, he was referring to a chain letter based off this site: how many of me?.

Based off of –incomplete– census info, the chain letter tells us that there is only one Roxie Lumpkin, there are only 155 people in the U. S. named Susan Craft, and you can go on and add to it too:

53. There are 817 people in the USA named Susan
Crawford-WOW!!! yes, wow indeed. Or:

34. There are 2,278 people in the USA with the
name Gail Smith. … and they all suck.

Maybe Mike was just annoyed because this information was already available for years on www.whofuckingcares.com, or maybe it was the fact that “Seezen” is missing from the list. So I went looking up for other unique names.

As it turns out, There is 1 person in the U.S. named Dick Dick. Hot damn! Ron and I have decided to make this man an honorary member of Dude Dude Chick and send him a free CD.

Finding him might be difficult, though; a search engine won’t get you the results you are looking for — which is also true if you try to find Dude Dude Chick‘s website by searching — so we are going have to go to more drastic means, like using www.nahscrewit.com.

Holy Smokes– did someone say CDs? We now have em online — the first link is on-demand burning (sharp looking cover) and the second link are the ones I burn myself (homemade, baby).
here

and

here.

Make Up Lesson Schedule

I’ve booked some make up lesson time in the PC POOL Informatik Neubau 069.
Please tell me in person or write me an email to let me know if you can come to any of these times (include which class you are in).

Freitag, den 19.1.07 1.DS 2.DS 3.DS

I will also try to book some time on the Thursday before that.

Video: the Arrest of historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Happy New Year to all.

We survived without any missing limbs or punctured eardrums. Plenty of idiots out there, but at least the city sweepers will be glad to have their work already cut out for them tomorrow.

I must be sure to write again, for their are many new exciting developements going on, such as my new sewing machine, or Mr T, my new private student from Libya.

So long, Joe.

Joe Barbera of Hannah Barbera dies.

PC POOL TIME

READING
Catch the Phish — Can you spot which examples are fraudulent?

VOCAB
Commonly confused words

Calling to and from cellphones is crazy expensive in Germany, like in most of the world outside the states.

Voip is a good alternative when calling from home for landlines — international calls can cost almost nothing, or nothing at all, but most providers charge heft rates on mobile telephones.

Neighbor Thomas tipped me off to one provider with a good deal, though: webcalldirect.com/.

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We’ve got a gig tomorrow at Die HO H?nstlerverein. A gallery in Magdeburg. Magdeburg is the sister city of Nashville Tennessee.

I swear, if one more German asks me where I am from and then when I say “Tennessee” the exclaim, “Tennessee whisky!”, I swear so help me God, I’m gonna … tell people I’m from Maryland.

Here is a link to a fascinating — and perhaps the most accurate — short presentation of forefather
George Washington.