[PRCo] Re: A rather gross picture

[John Swindler]

And "Pennsylvania" is north of Bath, England.  My wife and I made the appropriate photo stop.  We left the sign there.
 
John
 
 
> From: bdietrich at comcast.net> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> Subject: [PRCo] Re: A rather gross picture> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:37:23 -0500> > There was an article about this place in the local paper last month. What I> remember most about it was that he Austrians can't understand why the> Americans make such a fuss over their town name and why they insist on> having their picture taken next to the sign. I assume that you gave them a> explicit explanation Fred!> > > -----Original Message-----> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Mark> McGuire> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 5:57 PM> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> Subject: [PRCo] Re: A rather gross picture> > LOL(in computer lingo translates to Laugh Out Loud). > > -- Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:> Gross in German means large. In English it means something totally > different. Well, the very Gross man is now much smaller. But the > picture might be gross by American standards.> Some of you might like the attached picture of Fred Schneider > standing at the edge of a small Austrian town last month. It is > pronounced Foo-kEEng. It has no relation to what your evil minds > are thinking. It is not even translatable. The town has been > forced to sink the name posts in concrete because the English have > been coming over and stealing the signs. It was even hard to find > the road leading to the town because that sign was also stolen.> > The grass near the sign was heavily matted down from the evil British > stopping to take pictures. We certainly can't blame it on the ugly > Americans, now can we.> > > > > > > -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --> -- Type: image/jpeg> -- Size: 835k (855058 bytes)> -- URL :> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/071027%20Fred%20in%20Fuc> king.JPG> > > > > > 
_________________________________________________________________
Climb to the top of the charts!  Play Star Shuffle:  the word scramble challenge with star power.
http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oct