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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 10 October 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span>
<span id="_user_arthurobin2002@yahoo.com" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Arthur Jones <<a href="mailto:arthurobin2002@yahoo.com">arthurobin2002@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.10.09 (06) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Meene Dameseneeren,</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I regret to inform
all of you that, no doubt in the cause of gentility, culture and
raffinesse, M. Hahn has misinterpreted the very etymology of
"Schlappschwanz", and, to be sure, quite unforgivably. The connotative
message in the magic term in question is not that of a <em>floppy tail</em>
(Slappsteert), but rather that of a male human whose hormones and/or
blood circulation facilities have disappointed him (and possibly
others) in the nether regions. A frequently used synonym is
"Gummipimmel". </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">For M. Hahn to have
exhibited such cultural and historical ignorance in this fashion
probably suggests that his forebears participated in the <em>Voelkerwanderung </em>from Hamburg into their deserved exile in Wilhelmsburg: over the channel and into the seventh Hell.</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">But we, of course, will forgive him.</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Arthur</div><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span class="e" id="q_115888d12baf219e_3"></span><font color="#ff0000">ARTHUR A. JONES</font></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Etymology<br><br>OK, OK, Arthur. You may be sitting on the proverbial etymological </font><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">high </font><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">
horse, but be aware that these days </font></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Schlappschwanz</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> is not used in that way, no matter how much you may wish it were.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Indeed, Willemsborg/Wilhelmsburg has never been an address to print on your calling card. This Elbe island became a part of Hamburg as recently as in 1938. It used to be Hamburg's main milk cow. After annexation it came to be used as a depository (or should I say "suppository") not only of Hamburg's more polluting industry but also of its unwanted huddled masses, people you didn't want to see in the more prestigious parts of town: working class people, immigrants and emigrants, and lately "foreigners" (currently ca. 15% of the population). (Most of the shops in the street in which I grew up now have Turkish signs on them.)
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">But -- hey! -- just like my ignorance -- I wear it as a badge of honor these days.</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">What was that? Did your high horse just fart, or what?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Kumpelmenten,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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