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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: INFO: Coolcard pipe
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.052050.21882@galois.mit.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 05:20:50 GMT
- References: <BzBoB4.JEJ@fenk.wau.nl> <1992Dec18.232817.9875@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- In article <1992Dec18.232817.9875@oracle.us.oracle.com> rchilder@us.oracle.com (Richard Childers) writes:
- >hoeven@fenk.wau.nl (Joost vd Hoeven) writes:
- >
- >>I just bought a new pipe...
-
- >>On the back it says : Rauchen gefa^hrdet ihre gesundheit, so it must
- >>be manifactured in Germany originaly.
- >
- >I think that translates into "Smoking makes you [cough and] sneeze."
-
- Heh. Typical of alt.drugs that someone who doesn't know German
- translates the thing, while those who do simply read it. Hint:
- Gesundheit doesn't mean "sneeze" in German! Do you think that after you
- sneeze people say "Sneeze!" in German? :-) It means "smoking endangers
- your health." So the big question is: is there a law in Germany that
- pipes have to say this on them?? Or is this some kind of bizarre joke?
-