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Let’s Celebrate!

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as soon as it is possible

I came across this slogan (or wishful thinking) on the information board of a little town last year which had to forego celebrating its 1225th birthday.

Hopefully, we will see lots of signs with opening times rather than take away menues in the not-to-distant future.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Open

Telling Sweet Little Lies

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The Fastnachtsbrunnen (carnival fountain) in Heppenheim features the figure of Till Eulenspiegel, a well-known figure of German folklore. He was known as a liar and prankster who often exposed failings in people, particularly those in higher office.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Liars

It Must Be All the Wine

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The people living in the Rheinland, the area on both sides of the middle section of the river Rhine, are said to be jolly, fun-loving, and generally full of joie de vivre. In Koblenz they have a sculpture of two people illustrating a well-known verse of a regional writer who wrote hunourous poems.

  • a market-woman
  • a policeman
Can you imagine a more jocular pair?

The verse is written on a plaque on the ground:
The market-woman to the officer:
"Believe me I'm patient but
My husband has been peed on
by our neighbour's mutt."

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Jocularity.