On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 05:10:34PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:41:52 +0100, Chris Bannister > <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:38:06PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >>OT for the OT, but a real joke: At a German office I've seen a women > > ^^^^^ > > woman > > [out of whole cloth] She is (they are) Siamese twins. [/out of whole > cloth] :).
Yeah, OK. One for the academics to discuss over their daily golf game. Incidentally, is "[out of whole cloth]" a German cliche/saying? Ummm, ... hang on ... ahhh, here we are: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/19/magazine/on-language-out-of-the-whole-cloth.html Weird, never heard of "out of the whole cloth" before. Live and learn. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
