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To: Otto Krueger

Re: "insulted liver sausage."

Germans love their sausage, their culture is peppered with a number of sausage-themed phrases. I bet "SPIEGEL ONLINE: Beleidigte Leberwurst?" is a play on the saying "Spiel nicht die beleidigte Leberwurst" which means "lighten-up" (literally "Don't play the part of the offended sausage".)

51 posted on 03/09/2004 9:25:39 PM PST by John Robinson

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To: John Robinson

Kerry is like that or so a crack sausage.

52 posted on 03/09/2004 9:29:13 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (The butter on message bread.)

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To: John Robinson

Germans love their sausage, their culture is peppered with a number of sausage-themed phrases. I bet "SPIEGEL ONLINE: Beleidigte Leberwurst?" is a play on the saying "Spiel nicht die beleidigte Leberwurst" which means "lighten-up" (literally "Don't play the part of the offended sausage".) Ah, that makes sense! Thanks. (Wasn't in my dictionary; I need a Dudens.) Das ist mir wurscht = That's sausage to me = I don't care.

71 posted on 03/10/2004 7:20:19 AM PST by Otto Krueger

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To: John Robinson

John, how many new German FReepers do we now have?

83 posted on 03/12/2004 3:52:13 AM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)

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