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Re: INTERNATIONAL STUFF - Small Talk vs. Banter         


Author: Frank Kalder
Date: Oct 29, 2006 01:42

marika wrote:
> Frank Kalder wrote:
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_Small Talk vs. Banter_
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>>> From my perspective, small talk is meaningless, just to pass the time.
>>> Talk about weather mostly.
>>>
>>> Badinage to me seems like verbal sport - more humorous interchange.
>>>
>>> That's how I use it anyway.
>>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usenet.legends.lester-mosley/msg/33830f5ce96564f7...
>> Do you really use the French word 'badinage' in English? ...
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Re: INTERNATIONAL STUFF - Small Talk vs. Banter         


Author: marika
Date: Oct 29, 2006 07:06

Frank Kalder wrote:
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>>>> Doesn't seem like your kind of place. What did you dance there? The
>>>> mazurka?
>>>>
>>> All sort of standard dances (foxtrot, waltz, tango, cha-cha, rock
>>> 'n' roll...). Later on, we went to the smaller discos in the
>>> Fischergasse, right around the corner.
>>>
>>
> Well the mazurka seems like a standard dance, but the discos seem
more
>> in keeping with your current personality than the foxtrot.

My friend likes to, during performances of poetry, get up on a chair
while the person is reading, and scream, with beer in hand. MAZURKA
TIME!!!
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Re: INTERNATIONAL STUFF - Dancing & J... In Vegas         


Author: Frank Kalder
Date: Oct 30, 2006 00:55

marika wrote:
> Frank Kalder wrote:
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_French Banter News_

http://groups.google.com/group/fr.lettres.langue.anglaise/msg/646e08b6601a2465?&hl...
200 years ago, Napoleon in Berlin!
>>>>> Doesn't seem like your kind of place. What did you dance there? The
>>>>> mazurka?
>>>>>
_Dancing_
>>>> All sort of standard dances (foxtrot, waltz, tango, cha-cha, rock
>>>> 'n' roll...). Later on, we went to the smaller discos in the
>>>> Fischergasse, right around the corner.
>>>
>
> ...
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Re: INTERNATIONAL STUFF - Dancing & J... In Vegas         


Author: marika
Date: Oct 31, 2006 17:54

Frank Kalder wrote:
> marika wrote:
>> Frank Kalder wrote:
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> _French Banter News_
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> http://groups.google.com/group/fr.lettres.langue.anglaise/msg/646e08b6601a2465?&hl...
> 200 years ago, Napoleon in Berlin!

That looks like Peter Sellers to me!
>
>>>>>> Doesn't seem like your kind of place. What did you dance there? The
>>>>>> mazurka?
>>>>>>
> _Dancing_
>
>>>>> All sort of standard dances (foxtrot, waltz, tango, cha-cha...
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Re: INTERNATIONAL STUFF - Farewell Tour         


Author: Frank Kalder
Date: Oct 31, 2006 23:05

>> marika wrote:
>>> Frank Kalder wrote:
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>> 200 years ago, Napoleon in Berlin!
>
> That looks like Peter Sellers to me!
>
;)
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Re: INTERNATIONAL STUFF - Farewell Tour         


Author: marika
Date: Nov 1, 2006 16:46

Frank Kalder wrote:
>>> Later on, at the Mittenwald officers' mess, I absolved, then as an
>>> ensign, another formal course.
>>
>> I didn't understand this sentence. Were you in the Navy?
>>
> I had my initial trainings with the 'mountain infantry'
> (Gebirgsjäger) in Mittenwald (Bavaria). Subsequently, I was at the
> Military Academy in Hamburg and finally as an officer in General Staffs
> in Kiel (located directly very close to one of the Navy's piers) and
> Munich.
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Re: INTERNATIONAL STUFF - Bavarian Resort Areas         


Author: Frank Kalder
Date: Nov 2, 2006 01:14

marika wrote:
> Frank Kalder wrote:
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Re: INTERNATIONAL STUFF - Bavarian Resort Areas         


Author: marika
Date: Nov 2, 2006 16:40

Frank Kalder wrote:
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>> And what you should say to a hurricane
>> I had a hurricane for you in New Orleans.
>>
>> http://www.gumbopages.com/food/beverages/hurricane.html

I suspect that the ingredients for this drink can be found in Germany.

Otherwise you will have to visit New Orleans.
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Re: INTERNATIONAL STUFF - US Camps         


Author: Frank Kalder
Date: Nov 2, 2006 22:04

marika wrote:
> Frank Kalder wrote:
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>>> And what you should say to a hurricane
>>> I had a hurricane for you in New Orleans.
>>>
>>> http://www.gumbopages.com/food/beverages/hurricane.html
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> I suspect that the ingredients for this drink can be found in Germany.
>
Yeah, sure! But I'm not used to that kind of mixing ;)
> Otherwise you will have to visit New Orleans.
>
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_American C.. Camps_
>>
>> http://[...]
>>
>>
>> What do you think or feel about that (Chris') blog? Should I rather
>> delete it from THE HAPLIF...
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Re: INTERNATIONAL STUFF - US Camps         


Author: marika
Date: Nov 3, 2006 15:37

Frank Kalder wrote:
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>> I suspect that the ingredients for this drink can be found in Germany.
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> Yeah, sure! But I'm not used to that kind of mixing ;)

Oh then you will have to go to New Orleans and become accustomedd.

In the meantime, you can visit Seattle to have drinks that are not
mixed.

On my way to Vancouver, I stopped in Seattle. I stayed at the Vance
hotel which is now apparently the Max hotel. Excellent!
http://www.hotelmaxseattle.com/

It has one of my favorite bars -
http://www.hotelmaxseattle.com/seattle-restaurant.aspx
sort of like the Patrick Henry's in Roanoke.
http://www.patrickhenryroanoke.com/
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