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Posted on 03/03/2005 10:23:50 AM PST by Right Wing It
I was unaware up until this point that there was a German word meaning "happiness at the misfortune of others" The Word is "SCHADENFREUDE". What makes it ironic is that it is the only national language in the world to have a word for such a subject. Who else thinks there should be an American word for this?
TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: abusemeplease; child; dangimbored; growathickerskinpal; hehatescheese; iamthewanderer; kittenkiller; schadenfreude; sheestenfinster; soontobebanned; stupidvanity; uneducatedkid
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
There's a yellow rose of Texas
That I am going to see
No other fellow knows her
No other, only me
She cried so when I left her
It like to broke my heart
And if I ever find her
We never more will part
(Chorus)
She's the sweetest rose of color
This soldier ever knew
Her eyes are bright as diamonds
They sparkle like the dew
You may talk about your dearest May
And sing of Rosa Lee
But the Yellow Rose of Texas
Is the only girl for me
Where the Rio Grande is flowing
And the starry skies are bright
She walks along the river
In the quiet summer night
She thinks if I remember
When we parted long ago
I promised to come back again
And never leave her so
(Chorus)
Oh now I'm going to find her
For my heart is full of woe
And we'll sing the song together
That we sang so long ago
We'll play the banjo gaily
And we'll sing the song of yore
And the Yellow Rose of Texas
Shall be mine for ever more
(Chorus)
*Some versions have these 2 lines as
the last lines of chorus*
But the Yellow Rose of Texas
Beats the girls of Tennessee
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:37:21 AM PST
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: Knitting A Conundrum
You can also sing "Amazing Grace" to the theme of "Gilligan's Island".
Yep.
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:37:46 AM PST
by
MaryFromMichigan
(We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
To: King Prout; Knitting A Conundrum
Two songs.... Niel Diamond's "Turn on your heartlight".. and Don Johnson's "Heartbeat"...
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:38:07 AM PST
by
Darksheare
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To: MaryFromMichigan
You can sing gilligan's Island to the tune of Stairway to Heaven...
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:38:34 AM PST
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: Gabz; King Prout
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:39:02 AM PST
by
bad company
(There can be no freedom without right and wrong.)
To: MaryFromMichigan
That hurts my brain to even think about it.
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:39:39 AM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(Certified cause of Post Traumatic Redhead Syndrome)
To: Hi Heels; Right Wing It
Well, it looks innocent enough to me. We'll see.
Welcome to FreeRepublic.com, Right Wing It .....
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:39:57 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: MeekOneGOP
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:40:50 AM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(Certified cause of Post Traumatic Redhead Syndrome)
To: TASMANIANRED
249
posted on
03/03/2005 11:42:06 AM PST
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: King Prout
I was a wily history major who hung out with the English majors and learned all the lowdown...and then I went to grad school in English lit.
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:43:46 AM PST
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: bad company
Evil...........simply evil.
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:48:13 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Wanna join my tag team?)
To: Darksheare
can have no effect on me today - I have the opening theme from Ghost in the Shell SAC and Chevelle's "the Red" going on alternating etern-o-loop.
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:48:37 AM PST
by
King Prout
(Remember John Adam!)
To: Petronski
I'll see your boobies and raise you a pair of tits.
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:49:01 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(“Every time a system is made foolproof - a new class of fool emerges.”)
To: discostu
We do have a word for it. It's "schadenfreude", this is English, any time we run into a good word in another language we just steal it.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
--James D. Nicoll
Wombat wandering through.
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:49:08 AM PST
by
Darksheare
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
but did Dred Zeppelin ever do a cover of "Immigrant Song"???
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:49:31 AM PST
by
King Prout
(Remember John Adam!)
To: King Prout
Hmm.. you're
certain nothing can harm your sanity at the moment?
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:50:22 AM PST
by
Darksheare
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To: Slings and Arrows
that's a great quote.
I'm stealing it.
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:50:29 AM PST
by
King Prout
(Remember John Adam!)
To: Gabz
Evil...........simply evil. Nope.......just Bad.
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:50:42 AM PST
by
bad company
(There can be no freedom without right and wrong.)
To: Darksheare
said NOTHING about my sanity, merely that I am immune to earworms at the moment.
*looking at link now...*
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posted on
03/03/2005 11:51:21 AM PST
by
King Prout
(Remember John Adam!)
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