> > > > ich bin Pepper, du bist Pepper, er ist Pepper, sie ist Pepper, willst du nicht ein echter (sp?) Pepper sein?
> >
> > Heyyyy, wait a minute Raven. Is that last part a quip about "Pepper's the REAL thing"? As opposed to say, oh I don 't know...Coke? :-)
> >
> > Incidentally, the word "Pepper" has a totally other meaning where I live... heheh
> >
> >
> > > (above is copied and pasted, Ger.->Eng., result is copied, and pasted below for the benefit of people, such as myself, who do not understand German)
> > >
> > > I am Pepper, you am Pepper, it am Pepper, it am Pepper, want you not more genuinly (frame?) Pepper its?
> > >
> > > Faw"Ich bin ein Berliner ;-) "cett
> >
> >
> > ein Berliner: "I am a Donut-head"?
> >
> > Wolfspirit
> >
> > Dekliniere "Werwolf":
> > Der Werwolf, des Weswolfs, dem Wemwolf, den Wenwolf!
>
> I was quoting JFK. The story goes that he meant to identify himself with the people of Deutschland(sp?) by calling himself a Berliner. But what he or his translator forgot was that articles are not used before nationalities, and he ended up calling himself a jelly doughnut.
>
> Here's another:
> Someone else(not JFK) went into a German deli wanting a hot dog, so he asked for a "heisser hund". You can imagine what the owner thought.
>
> Faw"Nein ich bin ein Berliner(as I said, I don't speak German, so if this is ungrammatical, and/or doesn't convey the negation of the previous quote, please correct it"cett

Once when I was in Mexico one very, very, very, hot summer, someone told me the COMPLETELY wrong word for "ice." Don't forget it was VERY, VERY hot. I went around asking for more of something no woman should EVER ask for in public -- even in private, it's an intimate request. When I finally learned what I was really asking for, I was, fortunately, able to say I had understood the creep who had given me the wrong word to say he wished he didn't have such a small amount of it. Paybacks, my friends, are gratifying.