Shivers Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 K, as both Hex and I are semi-away from the site this weekend, (Hex is at a conference, and I'm moving) we figured it'd be best to temp-admin a couple people to help fill in just in case. Any adminny-related help you might need can be directed to our resident bard and sadist-nut. *steps down from podium and applauds bard of aven and the evil cashew* Speech!! Speech!! Speech!! Link to post Share on other sites
The Evil Cashew Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 Bah Sadists thats for whimps *steps up to the podium* as your New dictator i promise to oppress you all and make your stay very miserable. I also promise not to break the board. *steps down* was that good? *gets smacked in the head by amcan* ok ok i be good! promise! no seriously guys. i be here for ya if u have any issues. and i won't break the board. ~Cashew Link to post Share on other sites
bard of aven Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 Ahem. When in the course of four score and seven ask not what you can I have a dream to be or not the winter of our let them eat I am a jelly doughnut that shall live in infamy will not accept and if nominated I think therefore I made a desert and called it promise them anything but give them the truth they'll just think it's. boa Link to post Share on other sites
ghosts Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 :lol: Great speeches... Link to post Share on other sites
deladangerous Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 Oh yes. I applaud so hard. :D Link to post Share on other sites
Peix Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 *applauds* Yes! Good show! Jolly good! Link to post Share on other sites
Hallucigenia Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 *cheers* Link to post Share on other sites
Goonie Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 *goes into hiding* Link to post Share on other sites
Shivers Posted December 15, 2005 Author Share Posted December 15, 2005 Wow..... boa.... is it a bad sign I can identify every one of those speech segments? Link to post Share on other sites
Jesh Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 Wow..... boa.... is it a bad sign I can identify every one of those speech segments? Me too. :? Link to post Share on other sites
winter Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 i'd think it's a good thing to be able to identify everyone of those speech segments. *is glad her public school education didn't suck as much as she thought it did* Link to post Share on other sites
bard of aven Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 Ahem.When in the course of [Declaration of Independence] four score and seven [Gettysdberg address] ask not what you can [JFK...campaign speech?] I have a dream [M L King] to be or not [Hamlet] the winter of our [Richard III] let them eat [Marie Antoinette]I am a jelly doughnut *[JFK] that shall live in infamy [FDR] will not accept and if nominated [LBJ] I think therefore I [Descartes] made a desert and called it [Tacitus] promise them anything but give them [Arpege commercial] the truth they'll just think it's [Harry S Truman]. *As I have mentioned elsewhere, I am reliably (and hopefully correctly) informed the anywhere else in Germany, what JFK said means I am a jelly doughnut, but in the Berlin dialect, it means I am a person from Berlin. boa boa, snob Link to post Share on other sites
Amcan Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 *applauds*Yes! Good show! Jolly good! *coughs* Link to post Share on other sites
Kelly Posted December 15, 2005 Share Posted December 15, 2005 *As I have mentioned elsewhere, I am reliably (and hopefully correctly) informed the anywhere else in Germany, what JFK said means I am a jelly doughnut, but in the Berlin dialect, it means I am a person from Berlin.boa When I hear "Berliner," I think of beer. :) Link to post Share on other sites
Xenon Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 *As I have mentioned elsewhere, I am reliably (and hopefully correctly) informed the anywhere else in Germany, what JFK said means I am a jelly doughnut, but in the Berlin dialect, it means I am a person from Berlin.boa Actually, you are almost correct. "Ich bin ein Berliner" = I am a jelly doughnut. (A "Berliner" is a round pastry, usually glazed, with some kind of fruit preserve in the middle; a 'jelly doughnut' is the closest thing we have over here to that. "Ich bin Berliner" = I am from Berlin. If the distinction still seems to be a little fuzzy, imagine someone from Denmark saying, in English, "I am a Danish". Link to post Share on other sites
Carsonspire Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 *As I have mentioned elsewhere, I am reliably (and hopefully correctly) informed the anywhere else in Germany, what JFK said means I am a jelly doughnut, but in the Berlin dialect, it means I am a person from Berlin. While the Berlin dialect sounds distinct (harder consonants, etc.), "Ich bin ein Berliner" still means "I am a jelly donought." Link to post Share on other sites
Peix Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 I thought a "Berliner" (i.e. the jelly-doughnut-like object) had a different name in Berlin itself? Link to post Share on other sites
Amcan Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 I thought a "Berliner" (i.e. the jelly-doughnut-like object) had a different name in Berlin itself? I thought it was a sausage....like a frankfurter.... Link to post Share on other sites
vikingo Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 Berlinerpfannkuchen (sorry for being off topic :) ) Link to post Share on other sites
bard of aven Posted December 17, 2005 Share Posted December 17, 2005 And yet.....my reliable informant was a Bavarian who once lived in Berlin. Also, see http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historica...fk_berliner.htm, not that that holds any particular weight. Any native Germans/Berliners care to weigh in? boa Link to post Share on other sites
xaida Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 Hehe, not just native German, but native Berliner. :-) I had not known that Berliner would mean "jelly donut like object" until I was something around 25 and spoke with a guy from Switzerland. We call them "Pfannkuchen" (pancake) in Berlin and they look like that. Outside Berlin, especially in the West of Germany these object are called Berliners. Since JFK spoke in Berlin this double meaning was not recognized at all, whereas everywhere else in Germany I could imagine a couple of good laughs :) About sausages we have Wiener (inhabitants of Vienna) and Frankfurter (inhabitants of Frankfurt). Im in announcements! Yeah! :) Link to post Share on other sites
bard of aven Posted December 18, 2005 Share Posted December 18, 2005 Thank you. boa Link to post Share on other sites
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