Am I the only...

Antarctican · Mar 16, 2008

"Good" being defined as 'making your nose bleed'? :lol:

Spidy · Mar 16, 2008

LaFoto said:
It is spelled "Gesundheit" and means "good health", for when you have to sneeze, it may be assumed you're on your way to "bad health" (a cold, the flu, something like that), so you wish the one who sneezes "good health".

Wow .. thanks for the clarification. All my life I had wondered what I was saying. I assumed it was something like this. The adults always found it funny that us kids didn't know what they were saying, therefore we never really knew much about the language other than that some words were dirty or funny. I wish I would have learned the language from them. Now that we are talking about this ... I'm really missing my Grandparents

It would be a great day to visit Germany and where they grew up. Maybe someday.

LaFoto · Mar 16, 2008

Do you know where they grew up?
And are you aware we're going to have a TPF Meet-Up here in Germany at the end of May! EVERYONE is welcome to attend! There's still room for newcomers!

Battou · Mar 16, 2008

Antarctican said:
"Good" being defined as 'making your nose bleed'?

LaFoto · Mar 16, 2008

We had horseradish in the garden and my grandmother would wash and grind it herself, too.

And when I was about 4, I went upstairs to where my grandparents lived (they lived in the upstairs of my parental home, and there was an outside stair to their balcony and a door from the balcony right into my grandma's kitchen), saw her grinding this "thing" and innocently asked "What is this?"

And my grandmother said "You don't know? So come and taste" and gave me a spoonful of freshly ground horseradish. To a four year old child!!!

I did not KNOW where to run to.
My mother got into a fierce fight with her mother-in-law over this!!!

Antarctican · Mar 16, 2008

^^^ OMG, you poor thing!!! That's just mean! I think it's an acquired taste, and pretty much no 4 year old will have acquired it!

(Heehee, funny smilie Battou!!)

Spidy · Mar 16, 2008

LaFoto said:
Do you know where they grew up?
And are you aware we're going to have a TPF Meet-Up here in Germany at the end of May! EVERYONE is welcome to attend! There's still room for newcomers!

He was born in Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen. I have no idea where this is, but now I think I will look it up :wink:

Thanks for the invite, and I would LOVE to come, but for now I do not have the funds to get there

I lost my job when the business I was working for closed after 70 years of business! Fortunatly for me, they have a program where I can go back to school, so that's what I'm doing. However, while doing so, I'm living on beans and wieners if you know what I mean. I make a very horrible poor person!! I can't wait to graduate!!