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[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Jochen Kunz may have mentioned these words:
>On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:26:04 +0200
>SPC <spedraja at ono.com> wrote:
>
> > Martin de Jode
>In Germany the family name "Fickeisen" isn't that uncommon.
>(Fick should be obvious and Eisen means iron.)

In my neck of the woods, souvenir stores are called "fudgie shops" as many 
of them started out as & prominently feature handmade fudge. (and yes, 
tourists are called "fudgies" as well; i.e. people who come & tour all the 
fudgie shops.)

We have one called "Das Gift Haus" - perfectly good German for:

The Poison House.

I asked once if they kept arsenic in stock, the onshift salesmonkey 
(usually current or former [read: dropout] college students) just looked at 
me funny, even after I explained the translated meaning of the name of the 
establishment. Must've been one of the dropouts. ;-)

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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