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German prefix "Ur" and Sumerian city Ur (Probably need to speak German to answer) - Straight Dope Message Board
German prefix "Ur" and Sumerian city Ur (Probably need to speak German to answer) - Straight Dope Message Board
My great uncle worked in a brewery at Freising and told this anecdote
Every so often, some workers secretly took a keg of bock beer, not to be discovered, the barrel would be completely empty.
The funny thing was his words to describe a slight drunkenness
"We were drinking up to ten liters of beer, and yet we could find our homes..."
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Some of us are more interested in what's right rather than who's right. I learned something and I'm grateful.
Meat hangover?
jeff
Not really - and the Paleos would no doubt argue exactly the opposite
Well not so much "argue" as dispute categorically
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My great uncle worked in a brewery at Freising and told this anecdote
Every so often, some workers secretly took a keg of bock beer, not to be discovered, the barrel would be completely empty.
The funny thing was his words to describe a slight drunkenness
"We were drinking up to ten liters of beer, and yet we could find our homes..."
When I first worked at the Deutsche Oper in (West-)Berlin I turned up just when a truck from a local brewery was unloading. Seeing dozens and dozens of crates coming off it I obviously assumed that the canteen was restocking.
Turns out it was a private delivery just for the stage crew.
Every one of them had a family-sized fridge just for beer, may be leaving room for a couple of home-made sandwiches.
A couple of weeks before I started one of the stage crew had told his wife that he had to do a double shift which he didn't. He spent the full extra 8 hours drinking, walked out of the building and dropped dead from acute alcohol poisoning not 50m from the gate.
The reason I suspected coincidence was because I found out that the Shona term for 'Do you smoke?' is exactly the same (spelling and pronounciation) as the italian slang word for 'prostitute'.
Shona also has a number of words which are, equally coincidentally, very similar to japanese words with a completely different, unrelated meaning.
(Shona is one of the languages spoken in Zimbabwe.)
Unfortunately, Deutsche Oper Berlin has some tragical history, and that worker died drunk, a director also died while conducting Verdi's Aida, just to mention one...
However, I envy you, I must resign myself with recordings, and the best beer here is Isenbeck, until 2010 was part of Warsteiner, not anymore, but still reasonably good.
I don't like Heineken, it is too bitter, and Stella Artois reminds me the smell of skunk, I guess it is a problem only here.
