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    marye
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    When our previous topic hit the 1,000-response mark, sleazy behavior by politicians was eliciting a certain amount of non-astonishment.

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  • gratefaldean
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    Those DeCoster egg guys
    They are not just in Iowa. 36 yrs ago I had a buddy who got a job building cages at their egg farm in Turner, ME. He lasted about 2 weeks in the job, it was that bad...the stuff he told me turned me off eggs for years until I started buying from farmers that I knew. So a lifetime later, they're still pulling the same crap (literally and figuratively from the sounds of it)...check out one of THOSE places if you want to get turned off the idea of factory farms.
  • Gr8fulTed
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    ho hum
    I see the 49'rs are favored by 2 as visitors in KC this weekend. Have fun all you folks sitting on rocks in Morrison CO this weekend. I'll await the day a show is booked in eastern Kansas or western Missouri: it sure has been long enough.
  • gratefaldean
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    I got confused in Germany by
    The WC door marked "Damen." The "men's," right? Didn't make THAT mistake twice.
  • johnman
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    Whew......
    ah speek murkin end floont gibberish...
  • TigerLilly
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    Translation
    I can most likely translate it for you marye-if you want to dig out the clip and send me the link.I can't speak Dutch-but as you said from speaking German and English I understand Dutch well enough to follow the news on the radio-so could give it a shot with Afrikaans ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
  • marye
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    whereas
    Dutch just sounds like English that's a little off, as it were... Somewhere on YouTube there's a clip someone sent me of some remarkable feat of wildlife achievement, and in the background a tour guide is commenting madly in Afrikaans. It drives me crazy because all the sounds are right and I don't actually understand a word!
  • TigerLilly
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    I can perfectly imagine marye
    Those who learn High German do find Switzerdeutch to be extremely funny! :)********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
  • marye
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    yeah
    when I was taking German in college one of my classmates spoke Switzerdeutsch as his family language and much comedy ensued.
  • TigerLilly
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    GRTUD!!!!
    :-D nice to see you posting. Oof re:the needle in your back!! The Swiss speak French, Italian, Rumansh (or something like that it's called) and a very strange dialect of German that the Swiss also call Switzerdeutsch. Two Swiss people speaking to each other in their dialect is basically incomprehensible to people from Germany-different pronunciation and some different words and different usage of common words. So was a half-joke really that I said that guy was speaking Swiss. He was speaking High German with a hefty Swiss accent. Austrians have a hefty dialect too, but are much more understandable for people from Germany. ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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    Greenpeace story
    http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1930720/?UserKey= go greenpeace!!!!!!
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