Monthly Archives: December 2008

Germans Design Dual Mouthwash / Toilet Duck

This German cleaning product sure looks like it is meant to be held upside down and squirted into your toilet bowl. But no – it’s mouthwash, in a small ceramic bottle. Truly strange people.

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German Lessons Abandoned

On day four of my German class, the teacher asked us our professions, and one student replied a chef. If you are learning English, chef is pretty easy, like most nouns. Plurals and definite/indefinite articles follow basic rules. That’s it. … Continue reading

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Germans are too precise

Precision is great, especially when you build cars, but a reasonable person can see that such precision should have limits. I got in an elevator in Germany, and saw that the floors were not demarcated as 1, 2, 3, but … Continue reading

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