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Yeah, me too. I graduated from High School with honors, so I got to a session with our district mayor where I got an impressing looking certificate, which is actually good for nothing except for hanging it above my sofa... and besides it spells my name "Rognar"!

Hmmm, lemme think about those words. Almost all of them either aren't German words or are horribly misspelled. Fried is English, but definitely not German, apple, thrasher and banger probably too. Horowitz is a jewish name. Spelterwasser could be Selterswasser, some ,kind of mineral water. Bahnwagen is railway car. "gutenabend bitte ein nurnburger bratwustle" would be "Guten Abend, bitte ein Nürnberger Bratwürstl", "Good evening, a Nürnberg (city in Germany) style sausage please."

(remainder of translation edited to keep PG Rating)

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Oh dear -- The perils of making up words to mock another language and accidentally stumbling upon something offensive. Do you think I should edit out anything here?

What might be relevant to rest of the quote is that banger is British slang for a sausage -- The peculiar British-style sausage, which is nothing at all like weiners, Brotwurst or anything like that.

That rings true. Last I heard over 75% of France's capacity is nuclear.

Jeez, and tried real hard to keep it decent! Must be the difference between Austrian and US mentality. Sorry if I offended anyone.
Anyway, the "name" contained a _real_ bad word mostly used by adolescent males around 12 or 13 (not sure they even know what exactly they're talking about...)

You did a good job at that, no problem there. To clarify, I don't want anyone to think that your comments (or ThinkGood's) were anything but proper. No offense could be taken from anything that either of you said.

I thought it would be best to remove the words in question since we do get a very varied audience I thought there might be some that would not need translation and might be offended by seeing the words. I was trying to be considerate of anyone that might be visiting.

FWI,

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Bill

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No offense taken! I keep forgetting I'm not the only German-speaking visitor here

Back to the power outage: Now all people keep guessing why the line broke at all.
Some say a tree fell on the line. Now everybody's wondering why they can't keep the area around the lines clear of trees.
by a Swiss sparky

Ragnar,
That's why I was asking if I shoud edit out the posts as well. ECN gets a wide range of visitors and we don't want to offend anyone in their native language if we can avoid it. Thanks for doing the necessary Bill.

I can't help thinking of the railways in Britain:

"We weren't expecting snow in January."
"THere were leaves on the line."
"It was the wrong sort of snow."

And yes, with the heatwave this summer they actually came up with "The wrong sort of heat!"

Off-topic a bit, but there are some good trouble-call stories at this link.




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Hmmm.... I wonder if this story actually had a serious side to it.

Don't you think the lady could have had an arcing connection somewhere in the room?

I reckon that these series of power failures DO in fact have something in common with solar activity.
I read somewhere back in 1993 (near to the last sunspot cycle at the time) that the Earth could expect to have problems with thier power grid systems over the next 20 years, communications systems were also mentioned in the article.
But, the article did mention that this sort of thing would be caused by solar winds carrying charged particles, of a magnitude never seen before.
I'll see if I've still got the mag that this article was in, at the time I never really took the comments on board.

So electricians should be selling their tools and looking at a career as a gas lighting expert instead?

Electrical systems are potentially very fragile in weird EM fields. Although then again considering that our nervous systems are basically chemo-electric large EM feilds could really mess with us too! Maybe it explains the dark ages!