Klarinet Archive - Posting 000282.txt from 2001/01

From: Lacy Schroeder <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Revisiting a topic of two weeks ago
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:05:09 -0500

>Insulting indeed(!), but I must laugh at the same time, because my mother
>used this expression, slightly modified ("Leck mich doch am Arsch!!") quite
>frequently through out my childhood. I always figured it was just some
>common German utterance of frustration at whomever was the object, and
>I didn't learn just *how* severe an invective it was until my teens. Then
>I REALLY laughed for a while. She was such a gentle woman...I didn't
>know she had it in her! :-D
>
>--Neil, who learned all of his German cuss words from his dear sweet mother

Heh, reminds me of MY mother, too! She was raised by her very strict German
grandparents, and when my brother and I were insolent, we felt the wrath of
God in the German tongue. It's funny now that the only German I know is bad!

Lacy Schroeder

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