Ticket to ride

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Fri May 05, 2006 6:52 am

Yikes, Randy...

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Fri May 05, 2006 6:59 am

Sheena: That was a joke from The Rutles movie 'All You Need Is Cash'. Somebody is sure to point that out, if I don't!

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:13 am

Unfortunately, i have never seen this movie...

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:18 am

Wolfgang: Nobody was laughing at you. They may have been laughing at my terrible German. The only thing worse is my 'Pepe LePew' French. Americans are often accused of being deficient when it comes to foreign languages. I simply proved them right in my case.

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:21 am

Sheena: Go to www.rutles.org and read their 'Story'. I think this includes most of the movies script. It's the story of the Pre-Fab Four!

revolver323 · Post by **revolver323** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:23 am

Lost in the translation? Everyone has problems --even John Fitzgerald Kennedy wound up saying "I am a jelly doughnut" in his famous Berlin Wall speech when he meant to say "I am a Berliner." I have enough trouble with English (AMerican English).

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:34 am

Boy, am I sorry to have missed out on all this drama...a guy I never heard of left me in the dust with all the other Beatles books, and I didn't even know about it...

But the really important thing here is: who the hell is Nikki Oyes, and how may I acquire a poster of her?

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:38 am

Dave: I suppose it wouldn't have worked out any better if JFK had been making his speech in another major German city...

"Ich bin ein Frankfurter!"

or

"Ich bin ein Hamburger!"

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:40 am

Dane, we were waiting for ya... or, at least, some of us

Thanks a lot for the link, Randy... it made my day... tea and Punk Floyd - what else do you need?

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:40 am

Or (heaven forbid): "Ich bin ein Bitscher!"

alanz · Post by **alanz** » Fri May 05, 2006 8:07 am

Lost in the translation? Everyone has problems --even John Fitzgerald Kennedy wound up saying "I am a jelly doughnut" in his famous Berlin Wall speech when he meant to say "I am a Berliner."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner

revolver323 · Post by **revolver323** » Fri May 05, 2006 8:52 am

Aw ... they always go after the Kennedys.

"Ask not what your plum tree can do for you, ask what you can do for your plum tree."

Look it up.

And have you heard the one about the giant rat mistaken for a chihuahua?

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Fri May 05, 2006 10:48 am

Yeah, you guys were right... I just typed the correct way to say "I don't understand..."

Then was a bit wary that I may have gotten it wrong, so I said "I've only studied German for two years" and then asked if anyone else spoke the language.

I took Spanish for three years in high school, which was an obvious choice, having lived in San Diego, California for the first 18 years of my life. Now that I'm up in Northern California, I decided to take German, as I'm planning on working in Europe at some point.

Next year I plan to take Italian for a quarter.

Tschüss!