marika wrote:
> Frank Kalder wrote:
>>>
>
>
_Kristen Bell_
> Thanks
>
U're welcome :)
_Eva Longoria in the German BRAVO_
>
[...]
>>>
>> Well, I'm amazed that the BRAVO is mentioned in LA :)
>>
>> The BRAVO, a foremost German music-scene magazine for _teenagers_,
>> celebrates currently its 50th "birthday".
>>
>
> No I didn't know that.
>
>> I wonder that they are writing about Tony as Eva's fiancé
>> (Verlobter) whereas they are, indeed, married (but perhaps now
>> separated).
>>>
> Have no idea.
> I thought that was odd too.
>
>>
>> What do those 3 websites mean to you or should mean to me?
>
> Thee person who posted the post had signed their post with those three
> websites. Much as you do when you sign each of your posts with your
> haplif urls.
> I retained the signature for attribution purposes but didn't really
> look at them.
>
:) I've got it - thanks!
>
>
_Berlin photos & the Prater_
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Forgot:
>>>
>>> I liked them all except for the photo of the ferris wheel (Prater?)
>>> because the movement made it blurry
>>>
>> Yes, indeed, blurry.
>> Yet the Prater is in Vienna.
>> There is, obviously, such a wheel also in Berlin and, I suppose, the
>> world's largest was opened in London for the millennium celebrations
>> [Jan. 1, 2000].
>
> I knew that the Prater is in Vienna, but wondered if that word is now
> used interchangeably in German for all such wheels irrepective of
> location. Sort of the way a brand name is adopted as the name for
> everything in that category, irrespective of who makes it.
>
> I have heard people say "The Giant Prater" as if there were other
> smaller Prater's somewhere..
>
"Many people regard the Vienna Prater as just another fun-fair. But
it's much more than that: it's a Viennese institution, like the
coffee houses or the Heuriger (wine taverns). Its landmark, and one of
Vienna's too, is the 65 metre high Giant Ferris Wheel. It towers over
the 200 booths in the Prater, the ghost train, go-karts and grotto
railways, the merry-go-rounds and fruit-machine halls, throwing and
shooting galleries."
http://www.touristnet.at/w_pr_1e.htm
A "prater" is the synonym for a "giant field" (etymologically).
>>
>>> The models/mannequins were sort of interesting, but that was neither
>>> representative of or exclusive to something about Berlin. Unless there
>>> is something special about the shot I don't understand.
>>>
>> I'd guess they could be seen anywhere in the western world.
>
> Nonetheless, the photo was intriguing.
>
Why, in particular, "intriguing"?
_P Diddy, Fiddy, 50 Cent, ..._
>>>
>>>
>>> "P Diddy's parties have always been hot! He had girls in champagne
>>> glasses naked! I've seen brothers in suits that you're never supposed
>>> to see in suits. I saw Fiddy in a suit. I saw Reverend Run in a suit.
>>> "--Marlon Wayans
>>>
>> Wow, wild parties in suits and naked in champagne :)
>> Is it Fiddy or Diddy? Or, who the heck :) would be "Fiddy"?
>>
Yeah, I like 50 Cent, and rap of that kind - Gold Digger and so on...
:)
> Fiddy is how some Northern American primarily African Americans
> pronounce the word "fifty".
>
Ah!
> This is a recurring theme in almost every Spike Lee movie I have seen.
> He seems to write himself a part as a man with thick glasses (far
> thicker than he seems to wear normally) and at least once in the
> movie, says the word "fiddy". Fiddy dollars, usually. Sometimes,
> Fiddy Cent. Sometimes in some other context. His character's name
> is usually Morris, but prounced closer to, Mose, with a slight but not
> total elision of the r's.
>
> I don't know with any certainty whether he does this intentionally.
> It's an observation.
>
> As a side note, Fiddy and Spike are often feuding about the role of
> African Americans in movies, and the role of violence in both.
>
Very many thanks for that cute background you provided!
:)
_Hearing in DC_
> My hearing is again postponed
>
A good or bad sign, and how do you feel about it?
>
CU, Frank
