Schadenfreude

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[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?

[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

[MaryFromMichigan]

You can also sing "Amazing Grace" to the theme of "Gilligan's Island".
Yep.

[Darksheare]

Two songs.... Niel Diamond's "Turn on your heartlight".. and Don Johnson's "Heartbeat"...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

You can sing gilligan's Island to the tune of Stairway to Heaven...

[bad company]

[TASMANIANRED]

That hurts my brain to even think about it.

[MeekOneGOP]

Well, it looks innocent enough to me.

We'll see.

Welcome to FreeRepublic.com, Right Wing It .....

[TASMANIANRED]

Where have you been?

[Knitting A Conundrum]

He is late...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

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.

[Gabz]

Evil...........simply evil.

[King Prout]

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.

[Fierce Allegiance]

I'll see your boobies and raise you a pair of tits.

[Slings and Arrows]

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

[Darksheare]

Wombat wandering through.

[King Prout]

but did Dred Zeppelin ever do a cover of "Immigrant Song"???

[Darksheare]

Hmm.. you're certain nothing can harm your sanity at the moment?

[King Prout]

that's a great quote.

I'm stealing it.

[bad company]

Evil...........simply evil.

Nope.......just Bad.

[King Prout]

said NOTHING about my sanity, merely that I am immune to earworms at the moment.

*looking at link now...*