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Re: German!

May 04, 1996 05:04 PM
by JRC


On Sat, 4 May 1996, Alan wrote:
> >
> Nothing to do with theosophy, but I recall in school our German teacher
> took us through a German poem which translated into English as
>
> "And then the man the tiger ate."
>
> Even in the German it was impossible to tell who ate who.
>
> German tourist in English restaurant:  "Waiter!  I have been here since
> half an hour! When do I become sausages!?"

Even less to do with theosophy, but my ancestry is primarily slavic,
german and english, which a friend once told me meant that my life would
be spent using inborn spiritual powers to achieve domination over others
in order to force them to eat really bland lunches.
								-JRC

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