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- From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: INFO: Coolcard pipe
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.145922.27603@burrhus.harvard.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 14:59:22 GMT
- References: <BzBoB4.JEJ@fenk.wau.nl> <1992Dec18.232817.9875@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1992Dec20.052050.21882@galois.mit.edu>
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- >>
- >>>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:
-
- Another hint: Don't correct someone else's use of a foreign language unless
- you know it youself. "Gesundheit" means "Health," or literally,
- heath-ful-ness, if there was such a word.
- Rauchen ... ; ie the whole phrase, means Smoking endangers your health
-
-
- >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?
-
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- "A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@
- I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
- think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
- these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
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