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Pop quiz: Leipzig

November 12, 2006

What is this plaque for?

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From a doorway in Potsdam-Babelsberg

October 4, 2006

Nazis zu Fischstäbchen = Nazis to fishsticks

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I am not alone…

October 3, 2006

Scott Adams just wrote in a blog entry entitled, “My Invisible Caveman Friend”, that he has conversations with imaginary people: Confession: Often when I am driving my car, I imagine that a caveman has time-traveled to the present and is sitting in the passenger seat next to me. And in reading the comments, it seems [...]

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Good deed for the day? Check

September 7, 2006

Well, I didn’t actually have to do much for my good deed of the day. This afternoon an elderly woman rang my doorbell and explained that her husband is ill and desperately needed to use the toilet, which I don’t really think I could in good conscience refuse, so of course I escorted the couple [...]

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Phonebooths and horse cakes

July 2, 2006

So today we had a nice family walk in the Parforceheide, a very typical thing to do in Germany on a Sunday afternoon. Go to any park on a Sunday afternoon and you will find it full of Germans walking about or making bike tours. In the west it is also typical that after your [...]

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Eeewww… How pervy!

July 1, 2006

I just took a look at my blog statistics and someone who visited my site found it through a search for “grandma@grandpa sex” on msn.com and my blog comes up in sixth place on this search as: An American Expat in DeutschlandPerhaps it could be young people in a city (“Sex and the City”-esque) or [...]

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What’s with all the creepy little kids

June 25, 2006

Ebay (in Germany at least, I dunno about everywhere else) has started showing ads with the song “Tonight You Belong To Me” sung by Patience and Prudence, two sisters aged 9 and 12 at the time of recording in 1956, who have, according to Allmusic.com, “ethereal voices”. I suppose it’s supposed to be about dreaming [...]

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