Possumblog

Would anyone actually notice?

Long live the moron project!!

Sometimes things like that can just ride around in the trunk until the right opportunity arises. With me, it would be yet another anchor.

Jordana, I'm not sure--in my office, there is an awful lot of free-floating paperwork that up until now has never been weighted. A couple of hunks of round aluminum might be suspicious. In the garage at home, they might be noticed, especially all boxed up. They might have to do the Steevil Solution for a while until I can get them to the powder-coating husband of my dentist.

And Tex, I sure hope so--I'd hate for it to suddenly up and croak.

Croak? Check for a frøg on the carburator. And I would tell everyone they're new architectural embellishments for a work project.

Spare wheels? That's no big deal! I've got 4 Porsche 914 wheels in my shop waiting for a certain kit car to begin restoring itself. Heck, I've got 4 spare engines and a transmission in my little shop!

I wonder if they have meetings for this kind of moronicity...?

Hey, look at Dan bringing on the weird Scandinavian vowels! Good job. Or should I say, "jøb"?

Nate, I think you've hit upon a great idea--Morons Anonymous! Of course, those kinds of 12-step programs are really for people who want to quit doing whatever it is, not for people who want to revel in their ineptitude...

Quit? Did I say anything about quitting? I was thinking more about brag meetings, show & tell time to talk about great finds, discovered sources and bargains.

What?

Swap meet?

Ohh...

I'm glad you agree with me that Sweden and Norway are really one country. The Swedes must have been mad that the Norwegians got the "ø"; they get stuck with the "ö", which is nowhere near as cøøl.

Maybe if there was some sort of online journal thing where you could write about your finds and post pictures and stuff.

Nah. It'd never work.

And Dan, sure, those are cool, but what about those wacky Germans and their B. Not the regular B, but the ß they use when they have THREE ESSES in a ROW! Who in the world writes like that?!

Can you say "Honey, look what I bought for you to give me for Christmas!!!!"?

That's about what we do every year. Cuts down on returns that way.

You only need two esses in a row to use an Esset! Duh. U, like, totally don't know what ur talking about.

Oops. Wrong post. :)

Wacky, zany Germans...

There are actually a lot more "rules" about when to use the ß in German. It does not replace 3 /s/es, but rather 2. That is true.
HOWEVER...Only after a long- or a dipthong-vowell and not after short vowells.
For example:
hassen but heißen

There are a couple of exceptions related to "word families," but too complicated to explain unless you are really pretty decently familiar with both German grammar und orthography.

Thank you, Carrie--obviously, the limit of my knowledge of German is what I could pick up from watching Hogan's Heroes reruns.

I'm just glad that for all of English's faults, we didn't pick up that thing from the Germans where we make impossibly long compound words.