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Tag: #Fandango
Half or Hyper?
Mistletoe varieties are called half parasites. Some are called hyper parasites (because they grown on another parasite).
These are common viscum album, white flowering mistletoe. Being an evergreen they are well suited as Christmas decorations and beloved by sexual predators. But in case of this particular poplar it might be okay to speak of a super or hyper parasitic infestation.
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Live Is Better without Nazis
but a whole world devoid of Nazis – that would be dreamy!
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A Thought for Eternity
Opera lovers might know E.T.A. Hoffmann from Jacques Offenbach’s opera The Tales of Hoffmann or as the author of The Nutcracker. He was one of the most important and well-known German poets of Romanticism.
To really appreciate the quote one should know that “love” is feminine in German, whereas “thought” is masculine.
“What is space and time to love! Doesn’t she live in thoughts and does he recognise a measure?”
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Until Death or …
“Until the road worthy authorities do us divorce!”
I saw the sign on a 2CV a beloved French vintage car in Germany.
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Asinine Wine Growers
The small winegrower village of Mußbach in the Palatinate has a Weinlage (smaller than a wine appellation but consisting of a number of vineyards) called “Eselshaut” (skin of an ass). The name is supposed to relate to the grass growing around the vines and which was harvested to feed the donkeys.
Images of donkeys abound all over the town in crests and emblems and sculptures. I found this red one particularly asinine … fetching.
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Is It a Fluke
that I see the fluke of a whale in this piece of a man with open arms?
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