tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post3628953616077504332..comments2023-11-02T15:27:57.223+00:00Comments on Reading the Signs: Eight Random Facts About SignsReading the Signshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-38580335294811339292007-07-26T10:24:00.000+00:002007-07-26T10:24:00.000+00:00Thanks, Digi, I look forward to seeing yours.Thanks, <B>Digi</B>, I look forward to seeing yours.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-11199791371621772922007-07-26T00:21:00.000+00:002007-07-26T00:21:00.000+00:00Signs, your 8 random facts were absolutely fascina...Signs, your 8 random facts were absolutely fascinating. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the tag, it will be quite a challenge.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-67368387471340181212007-07-25T20:37:00.000+00:002007-07-25T20:37:00.000+00:00It's wonderful, as is she. And this, with the pho...It's wonderful, as is she. And this, with the photo, very powerful. It may distract but doesn't detract.<BR/><BR/><B>isvim</B>, as always, intact.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-75413729522552459722007-07-25T12:53:00.000+00:002007-07-25T12:53:00.000+00:00Signs my dearest, this flowers for Hitler thing ha...Signs my dearest, this flowers for Hitler thing has brought to my mind a Szymborska poem that has always wounded me <EM>very</EM> deeply - I blogged about it once, too, long long ago - maybe it hurts me particularly as I am a mother of two sons. Anyhow, I'm sure you know it, but it's under my signature anyway, dearest (I was majorly pleased to <EM>finally</EM> find it online to link to).<BR/><BR/>I hope this doesn't distract from my inherent East European alien sexiness. Sexy alienness. Whatever. Both.<BR/><BR/><B>isvim</B>, Signs. We both know that word could have a thousand meanings, a bit like ajougy. Let's keep hold of it.<BR/><BR/>xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-60476456957886604742007-07-24T20:46:00.000+00:002007-07-24T20:46:00.000+00:00NMJ, you're a star. What more can a humble blogge...NMJ, you're a star. What more can a humble blogger ask than a foreign language/umlaut resource and sexy blog friends? I am indeed blessed. <BR/><BR/>xReading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-25791759727844165662007-07-24T20:24:00.000+00:002007-07-24T20:24:00.000+00:00i have been missing the party here, dear signs, i ...i have been missing the party here, dear signs, i have been sunbathing, you see. can i just show off and add this little touch, <A HREF="http://www.starr.net/is/type/htmlcodes.html" REL="nofollow">html in foreign languages</A>, i dip into it occasionally. <BR/><BR/>am delighted to see that both pony & anna mr have brought sexiness since i was last here, pony is unsurprisingly dashing hither 'sexily' & anna has her 'sexy east european alienness' going on...not of course that your blog needs sexed up, lovely signs.<BR/><BR/>i swear, i've got sunstroke.<BR/>xnmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477643084619789093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-54620631838842789342007-07-24T18:04:00.000+00:002007-07-24T18:04:00.000+00:00Ah, education. I favour the do-it-yourself kind. ...Ah, education. I favour the do-it-yourself kind. But then, I too had to pull myself up by my bootstraps.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-64569730770492915192007-07-24T15:09:00.000+00:002007-07-24T15:09:00.000+00:00I blame poor education. And hillbilly blogs here w...I blame poor education. <BR/><BR/>And hillbilly blogs here which keep encouraging me.<BR/><BR/>-Robert.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-36299371762762052112007-07-24T09:39:00.000+00:002007-07-24T09:39:00.000+00:00I feel rich in umlauts now, thanks Mr. Moon.ok, Ro...I feel rich in umlauts now, thanks <B>Mr. Moon</B>.<BR/><BR/>ok, <B>Robert</B>, thanks. Genuine pom, though? I don't think many of us here feel that.<BR/><BR/>You are welcome to come back and comment here, but please keep it friendly. The comment you put after this, interesting though it was, became unnecessarily aggressive at the end so I took it out.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-24718263335579225802007-07-24T05:48:00.000+00:002007-07-24T05:48:00.000+00:00It's 'fair dinkum' (no 's' on the end). It means '...It's 'fair dinkum' (no 's' on the end). It means 'true'. <BR/><BR/>'Dinki di' is a variation, and has the sense of meaning 'genuine'.<BR/><BR/>And no, I wouldn't say it to Miss Pants. Why bother? She's a fair dinkum pom.<BR/><BR/>-Robert.R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-2691103699810651122007-07-24T00:08:00.000+00:002007-07-24T00:08:00.000+00:00Here are somë exträ ümlaüts för yöü. You should be...Here are somë exträ ümlaüts för yöü. You should be able to copy and paste them whenever you like.The Moon Toppleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12717446064777879248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-90667911732139996592007-07-23T19:56:00.000+00:002007-07-23T19:56:00.000+00:00Mr.TPE, what can I say? You dash in ruggedly bear...<B>Mr.TPE</B>, what can I say? You dash in ruggedly bearing the umlaut, and now I will be able to say ü to my heart's content. I don't know how you managed it, but thanks.<BR/><BR/>The other point: it really isn't so much a question of feeling one approach is more readily manageable; it just feels appropriate and right for me to address certain events in this way - to simply allow events to speak for themselves rather than publicly exploring my feelings and responses which are in some measure, I hope, implicit. To state certain things, as I have done here, is in any case not intended to be about me and my feelings, but about bearing witness and, I suppose, saying that <I>this</I> is also where I come from.<BR/><BR/><B>Anna</B> darling, is there any language of which you do not have a working knowledge? <BR/>Words, words, how they reveal or trip us up, I am beginning to think we ought just to trust the word ver leprechauns (<B>pzinxocy</B> btw, and yes I really should put a sock in it).<BR/><BR/>Hello <B>r.h.</B>, I think I learned most of my Australian from Barry Humphries films. On the other hand, "fair dinkums" keeps running through my brain now. I think perhaps that is what I should have said to Ms Pants.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-63060604350283631852007-07-23T17:31:00.000+00:002007-07-23T17:31:00.000+00:00"Fair go." That's what we say: "Hey, fair go, I sa..."Fair go." That's what we say: <BR/>"Hey, fair go, I saw her first. What yer tryin' to do, back door me?"R.H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04639593801088008224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-29253113292104030752007-07-23T15:43:00.000+00:002007-07-23T15:43:00.000+00:00""Factoid" means something that is unverified, inc...<EM>""Factoid" means something that is unverified, incorrect or invented."</EM> Oh dear. Forrin geerl here has got her meanings in a twist (it does happen sometimes - not often, but sometimes you can just catch that sexy East European <EM>alienness</EM> about me). My factoids (and it was I who started calling mine that, you were strictly keeping to the word "facts") were true - I just put the -oid ending there as I thought it would signify their trivial littleness, or little triviality, or whatever. Yours may be random but there ain't nothing trivial about them, honey...<BR/><BR/>Anyway, there was some other bit of bollocks I came bearing - what was it? Oh yes - "fair play to you" - I don't know whether they say it in Australia (do they, Ms Pants?) but I know for a fact they say it in Wales. <EM>All the time</EM>, Signs. I used to say it all the time too. It has taken years to wean me out of the habit. <BR/><BR/><B>isxise</B> - "Did I have a past life in Switzerland?"<BR/><BR/><B>pjipfmhw</B> - they saw me coming, the word ver leprechauns didAnna MRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13801478271766064478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-82122610462985177292007-07-23T15:23:00.000+00:002007-07-23T15:23:00.000+00:00Feuer, Messer, Gabel, Licht,dürfen kleine Kinder n...Feuer, Messer, Gabel, Licht,<BR/><EM>dürfen</EM> kleine Kinder nicht.<BR/><BR/>I brought you the umlauts, Signs, because I'm a bit like that. At the very least, you will be able to now copy the umlauted letter ü from my saintly contribution and slot it into any words that may require such a thing. Time consuming, certainly, but pointless, too.<BR/><BR/><EM>So many extraordinary things happened to my family, to others, so much fallout, one can't consider it all in the ordinary way. For me is best just to say: this happened, and this - and allow the details to speak....</EM><BR/><BR/>Yes, I can see that this would be a more readily manageable way to approach things. The wonder being, I suppose - and I say this as a non-Jewish person - that you can bear to consider it at <EM>all.</EM> <BR/><BR/>(I'm leaving aside the abiding and urgent necessity that these things should be known, never forgotten, and talking more about the personal impact on you, perhaps, and Jewish people in particular, as they try to make sense of such a thing. I'm not entirely certain I'd be able to look if it felt in any way personal. Although it does feel personal, I suppose, just not in the way it might do so for you. Hope that makes sense.)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, moving on.....I dashed (ruggedly and, let's be honest here, sexily) to see if I could help Moonoverwater, Signs, as per your request. I couldn't. And that hurts. I was impressed, however, with your own efforts to do so.<BR/><BR/>Kind regards and <EM>things,</EM><BR/><BR/>TPE<BR/><BR/>(Thank you very much for thinking to tag me, btw, that made me feel all big-headed and strutty. Hard to believe, I know.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-4162399295648668982007-07-23T09:05:00.000+00:002007-07-23T09:05:00.000+00:00Thank you Pants, ma chere, I must have been over a...Thank you Pants, ma chere, I must have been over at yours while you were here. Full marks for effort, fair play to you, as they say (in Australia?)Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-8583836104739798752007-07-22T22:06:00.000+00:002007-07-22T22:06:00.000+00:00Dearest SignsI love all your random facts, and I e...Dearest Signs<BR/><BR/>I love all your random facts, and I especially love that they're mostly related. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for tagging me. I, as you would expect, have responded with characteristic subversiveness. Please believe me, I did try not to be curmudgeonly but it's a genetic fault and I can't do anything about it. I did manage to get to 3b - again!<BR/><BR/>xxx<BR/><BR/>PantsPantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00712642194215828800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-34684711722661517722007-07-22T07:27:00.000+00:002007-07-22T07:27:00.000+00:00Hi, Mel D. To say no, I didn't make it up sounds ...Hi, Mel D. To say no, I didn't make it up sounds rather defensive, but I'll say it anyway.<BR/><BR/>"Factoid" means something that is unverified, incorrect or invented. This happened. It was not so bizarre in context. She lived in a non-Jewish area, went to a non-Jewish school and looked like a nice German madchen.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-17698976130654175872007-07-21T22:01:00.000+00:002007-07-21T22:01:00.000+00:00It was just the rain, Signs. I thought I heard cli...It was just the rain, Signs. I thought I heard clippety-clopping earlier today but it was in fact just hailstones. <BR/><BR/>I love your eight – NMJ is right, it's very fairytale-like, your prose. I can hardly believe that you aren't making the points up... the Hitler factoid is very bizarre.Mellifluous Darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00180132607349077647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-57599879670457593932007-07-20T20:00:00.000+00:002007-07-20T20:00:00.000+00:00Thank you, NMJ. Aha, the Periodic Horseman - yes,...Thank you, NMJ. Aha, the Periodic Horseman - yes, that's a question: I thought I heard the clatter of hooves just then - but it may just have been the rain.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-54209237240162443732007-07-20T18:59:00.000+00:002007-07-20T18:59:00.000+00:00Signs, I am happy that I have tuned into you - alt...Signs, I am happy that I have tuned into you - although we are very different, I think we are also the same . . . btw is Periodic Pony going to break his (own) blog silence and spill some beans?<BR/><BR/>xnmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477643084619789093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-67240928909344171602007-07-20T18:38:00.000+00:002007-07-20T18:38:00.000+00:00By the way, if anyone of you good technically-incl...By the way, if anyone of you good technically-inclined people (or more so than me, which isn't saying much), happens to be looking in - Moonoverwater, one of my tagees, who is new to Blogger, could do with a bit of advice - see comments in her "tagged" post.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-82773466817938406262007-07-20T18:25:00.000+00:002007-07-20T18:25:00.000+00:00Anna, yes it is. Flowers for Hitler. Re Goodthomas...Anna, yes it is. Flowers for Hitler. <BR/><BR/>Re Goodthomas's question: as it happens I was just on the phone to my mother and I asked her if she remembered what he looked like. She said no, she was really just looking at her dress, a white one her grandmother had made her for the occasion, the parade of honour. <BR/><BR/>NMJ, I was talking with a poet once about inner landscapes and she identified mine at once: a forest of the Hansel and Gretel kind; and the things you picked up on - yes, they are real things but also, in some way, emblematic, and my relationship to them is very much on that level - each thing, person, image, a door or a window into what, I don't always consciously know. But I trust them to reveal some truth - if not to me, then someone else. And I do inhabit that world, it is real to me. The apples on my tree at the moment, for example, ripe and ready so early to be picked: the story of Goldmary and Pitchmary who travel to the realm of Frau (mother) Holle and are confronted with tasks which they meet, or not; the tree calling to be shaken because its fruit was so heavy.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-59321578283916716522007-07-20T17:38:00.000+00:002007-07-20T17:38:00.000+00:00Hey Signs, After I had commented, I wondered mysel...Hey Signs, After I had commented, I wondered myself why I felt there was a fairytale quality to your telling of things:<BR/><BR/><I>She had long blonde plaits.</I><BR/><BR/><I>My father’s skin smelled of apple pie and sandalwood...goat's milk </I><BR/><BR/><I>feather bed and pillows</I>.<BR/><BR/>I just know I thought of Hansel & Gretel (Gregory's hunger?) & the Princess & the Pea, reading your tags.<BR/><BR/>xnmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477643084619789093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6432201290620111119.post-44364966079546017402007-07-20T17:29:00.000+00:002007-07-20T17:29:00.000+00:00Signs, this is indeed what bloggers do. Yes.McPoni...Signs, this is indeed what bloggers do. Yes.<BR/><BR/>McPoni is right in the "your mother and Hitler" story being startling - but in spite of its horrendousness, I see it as a compelling little tale.<BR/><BR/><B>quokek</B> - a Native American word for a compelling little true story<BR/><BR/><B>wozqr</B> - East European vernacular for the sameAnna MRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13801478271766064478noreply@blogger.com