I lived in Gettysburg, PA, USA for a while and I always laughed because there was a kitschy little store that sold German-esque trinkets (because PA has a lot of German heritage I suppose) but they named it "Das Gift Haus".
There's a group referred to as "Pennsylvania Dutch" who have nothing to do with the Netherlands, but are actually of German descent, with "Dutch" being a corruption of "Deutsch."
Why would you even give him a snake in the first place?
ReplyDeletemaybe he hated him?
DeleteWell, that escalated quickly :)
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHAHA!
ReplyDeleteAnd I said what I meant!
ReplyDeleteStrictly speaking, the snake is venomous.
ReplyDeleteThe nitpickers always poison every joke!
DeleteYes, but german language doesn't make such a vector dependent linguistic distinction, so he had to pick his poison. :P
DeleteI lived in Gettysburg, PA, USA for a while and I always laughed because there was a kitschy little store that sold German-esque trinkets (because PA has a lot of German heritage I suppose) but they named it "Das Gift Haus".
ReplyDeleteHa, that must have caused quite a few double takes whenever there were German tourists around... XD
DeleteThere's a group referred to as "Pennsylvania Dutch" who have nothing to do with the Netherlands, but are actually of German descent, with "Dutch" being a corruption of "Deutsch."
DeleteSnakes have venom, not poison. Poison: if you bite it, you die. Venom: If it bites you, you die.
ReplyDeleteThe Norwegian word for "poison" is "gift", but the word for "marry" is "gifte".
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