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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • German class taught me fünf nach sechs.
    Or if you want a real nighrmare
    6:35
    fünf nach halb vor 7
    5 past half an hour to 7… It’s in my textbook people look at me funny if I use it.
    British English I still haven’t figured out if half 7 is 6:30 or 7:30. Halb 7 in German is 6:30
    Living in Germany coming from north America doing a lot of work with England I miss a lot of meetings that are at 17:30… Either I screw up the 12 hr change and can’t remember if the said 7 or 17 and then where the half hour falls before or after.


  • I have his whole anthology from the 90s. Two massive books. He was the first one to do a single panel comic. There is almost always at least double meanings If not triple so you have to know the common phrases or slang that’s being referred to. One in the oven? Pregnant, but for a witch, it’s Hanse and Grettle cooking children. The party and the bananas? Who is Tarzan going to invite to a dinner party? So after they host a party it’s bananas everywhere. Instead of typical dinner party cleanup. You got one comic a day and sometimes you have to look and think and others were obvious. If it alludes to something and you don’t know the reference, then you’re lost. The chickens, cows and dogs were all recurring themes. I still absolutely die laughing at the boneless chicken ranch one. Probably my favorite. https://www.cardcow.com/911282/boneless-chicken-ranch-gary-larson-far-side/