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[wickedflea]

I'm still angry about my German II class back in the summer of 1993. I had that bastard George "Little Hitler" Buehler. One day we were going over the "gern" construction, which is used to say you enjoy something. If you wanted to say, "I like talking" in German, you'd say, "Ich spiele gern." So, okay. We were looking at the textbook at all the different activities listed and going around the room to say what we liked. I decided I wanted to say that I liked skeet shooting, despite the fact that I detest guns and in fact have no idea what a skeet is. The German word for "shooting" is "schiessen," which is pronounced with a long "E"--sort of like "sheesen." Well, that "ei" vs. "ie" thing always screwed me up in German. I could never remember which was pronounced like a long "E" and which with a long "I". So I mistakenly said it with a long "I" sound: "Ich skeetscheissen gern."

Well, as it happens, the German word for "shitting" is "scheissen." So I'd said I enjoyed skeet shitting. And that little Translyvanian bastard stood up there and laughed his Teutonic ass off at me. And if that weren't bad enough, every time he saw me on campus for the next year, he'd make a point to say, "Hey, how's the skeetscheissen going?"

I'll get him back one day oh yes oh yes I'll get him and if you try and stop me you're all going down. YOU'RE ALL GOING DOWN.

Comments

[cynical5679.livejournal.com]

wow man let it go

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

THE SHAME, IT BURNS

[lulu-girl.livejournal.com]

haha! that's awesome.
reminds me of the time I saw a woman on the greyhound bus (of course) who had her daughter's name tattooed on her arm. It was spelled Scheisha....and totally pronouced scheisse. Hilarious to hear her yell her daughter's name. I wonder if she's going to have a career in German porn flicks.

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

You never think about the skeetscheissen while you're eating them.

Tch.

I think you should make a bumpersticker that say "SKEETSCHEISSEN CHAMPION" with the Olympics rings and affix it to your car.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

HAW! That rules! I love stories about screwed-up tattoos. My friend who once worked as a line chef at a fancy restaurant in the French Quarter tells a story about a guy he worked with. The guy badly wanted a tattoo, but he didn't know what to get. Well, apparently one of this guy's main duties at the restaurant was to prepared brunoised (brune-WAD) peppers--which is like diced peppers, only the pieces are a little smaller than you typically think of with dicing. So my friend suggested that the guy should get a ring of brunoised peppers around his upper arm. Dude thought that was a pretty good idea, so he made his appointment. The next week, the dude was at work showing off his ring of little red squares with one word above it: "BRUNO".

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but then I'd have to move to Germany to get any reaction except from deranged foreign-language teachers. :)

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Not to mention crazy baby names. ;)

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of wandering, deranged foreign-language teachers out on the veldt... encountering bent bursars and loopy librarians, machiavellian chemistry professors and the occasional mercenary anthropologist.

man

[nationofsheep.livejournal.com]

skeet shitting that's awesome, that had me giggling for a while

Re: man

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I'll bet Buehler is still laughing about it. :)

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

Buehler...Buehler...