Reporters saying "TARMAC" how stupid!!

Martin Hotze wrote in
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On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 07:38:26 -0500, Cub Driver wrote:

gehactis mit ei (again, if I spell it correctly)

Gehacktes mit Ei

Ei = egg
mit = with (he with an)

#m


Isn't Gehacktes anything chopped? Like when I was growing up my
grandfather used to called Chopped Liver "Gehackte Liver".

And that ain't chopped liver!


Why don't they call it "Gehackte Fleishen" or something like that? (My
German is nicht so gut.)

Why don't they call it "Gehackte Fleishen" or something like
that? (My German is nicht so gut.)

"Gehacktes Fleisch" (chopped meat). "Gehacktes" is just a
short form of "gehacktes Fleisch" that has become a synonym
for chopped meat with an egg.

Tobias

Gehacktes mit Ei

Thank you! I will try to remember the spelling against the next time I
have occasion to invoke the memory, though since 46 years have elapsed
since dining at the Frankfurt Press Club and posting the information
here, my mind might well betray me again.


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On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 08:43:08 -0500, Bob Noel
wrote:

In London, some streets have it painted on the streets for pedestrians.

They wearied of cleaning up the messes made by foreign tourists,
smashes under the tires of the omnibusses?


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On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 17:13:33 GMT, Jose
wrote:

I will say "paddy field" from now on,

I am humbled and pleased, and I pledge to continue my vain campaign
against the oxymoronic "rice paddy".



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On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:41:12 -0500, vincent p. norris
wrote:

"telly"

Telly is a good word; I'm surprised it hasn't replaced the rather
awful "TV".

Have you noticed you aren't supposed to use the "the" with it, at
least not if you are belly-scratching lower class?

"Saw it on telly, Mum."



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"Cub Driver" wrote in message

(Did you catch the part about the crazy Marine
named Dale Dye?

No, I didn't. Likely I read the book after I saw the movie. I really
liked Full Metal Jacket, though cineophiles generally hold their noses
at mention of it.

Dye is the guy that runs the Hollywood boot camp. Was the captain in
Platoon ("Lovely ----ing war"), was in Saving Private Ryan on the
President's staff and appears in just about every American war movie made
since the '80s. If it's the same guy, Herr describes the guy as a nutjob
who painted a flower-shaped target on the front of his helmet.

The other classic example borrowed by FMJ from Dispatches is the helicopter
doorgunner screaming "Git some!" and answering questions about shooting
civilians from the helicopter.

-c