November 2008
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August 2008
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De Rerum Exrementa or On the Nature of Crap
An Essential Primer on The Disposal of Trash in Germany
Section One- On the Past Grubbiness of Germans, and their Later Reformation
In the 16th Century so illustrious a personage as Erasmus himself berated German innkeepers for being ill-mannered, ill-tempered, lazy, and above all, unspeakably filthy.
When you have taken care of your horse you come into the stove room, boots, baggage, mud and...
July 2008
2 posts
Would You Like a Kitchen with That?
“The Mothership”, as we shall hereafter refer to my Bebezinho’s employer, is a giant German multinational. The biggest of the big. It is so huge t has a factory on the Rhine that is larger than my hometown. For legal reasons (actually, because I don’t know the laws of Germany but I am quite sure they are inflexible, severe, and exceedingly just) I will not disclose the...
How did it come to this?
Hi,
My name is Ryan. I was once a nice young Tennessee boy with a bright future, but I fell in with the wrong crowd. It started out small, like all addictions do. I took Spanish language in middle school. In high school, I moved up to the hard stuff- Spanish itself isn’t so bad, but it is a gateway to things like German. At the tender age of 14 I was introduced to Duetsch Huete, a...