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Wendell Grogan schrieb: > in a strange world of bright primary colors and geometric shapes. Or at least > that's how I remember it, it was the 60's... What I remember well from the sixties, comicwise, is Capt'n Klutz , among others, Fritz the Cat, Charles Schultz's ever honored set , of course. > Learning colloquialisms is a nice bonus of this international web site. No > matter good you are at a language, there's a whole second language out there to > learn. Very much so, indeed. Some years ago during a dive trip to Brittany, a young french girl was giggling about my choice of words, said these had changed their meaning a bit during the 30+ years gone by since my school days. Well, some words we didn't even learn in school. In 78 I nearly ran into trouble at the englisch customs in Harwich, there were some Irish guys with me looking for a job in Germany, reason enough to check my van beyond measure. When I asked this customs guy what this fuss was all about, whow, you could see him swelling to twice his size " I must report you to my senior officer! You know you are talking to an officer of the royal empire ... When she senior officer arrived, I thought it wise to confess my lack of idiom knowledge. I can remember when my kids got a book called "Scheisse! a guide to the > German you don't learn in school". Now they are rude and crude in two languages > instead of just one! We have " English for runaways" :-) - Mathtias > Wendell G > > Scott wrote: > and getting tossed into the local "Home > > for the Bewildered." He calls it "Fruit Loop Land" as one of the staples of > > their diet is Fruit Loops. > > > > Basically, "Fruit Loop" is a colloquialism for someone who outwardly, > > obviously, mentally unstable. > > > > > > Scott schrieb: > > > > This guy is a complete sociopath. Psychotic from the socks up. 100% > > Fruit > > > > Loop. > > > > > > Scott, would you like to help me advance my english skills ? > > > > > > Fruit loop , 100 % ???( sounds like half rotten, prealcoholic, > > > vegetable, delta - ;-) > > > - Matthias -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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