You know you are getting old when:

[scottyrocks]

I kind of agree with your sentiments, but I do like some of the State quarters, especially the California John Muir / Yosemite quarters.

This guy got his own quarter?

 

[scottyrocks]

Remember when milk was just milk? I go to the store now and I have to search for milk through all its various incarnations now.

For me the choices are a blessing. I am diabetic and lactose intolerant. So when I want real milk I buy Lactaid, and when I want completely carb-free I buy unsweetened almond milk.

 

[scottyrocks]

Once in a great while I'll find a Buffalo nickel with the date rubbed off, and I'll drop it in a glass of vinegar until the date reappears. Don't tell me I don't know how to party.

 

[scottyrocks]

And this is another part of german humor:

I guess I don't understand German humor. In fact, I'm not sure I knew it existed.

 

[Zombie_61]

I guess I don't understand German humor. In fact, I'm not sure I knew it existed.

Don't feel bad. I'm 1/4 German, and I don't get it either.

 

[1mach1]

Don't feel bad. I'm 1/4 German, and I don't get it either.

 

[Zombie_61]

This guy got his own quarter?

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Well, now that you mention it...

 

[GHT]

I guess I don't understand German humor. In fact, I'm not sure I knew it existed.

I don't understand it either, but I have an uncomfortable feeling that the destination blind on the bus, namely Buchenwald, might have something to do with it.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I don't understand it either, but I have an uncomfortable feeling that the destination blind on the bus, namely Buchenwald, might have something to do with it.

Of course, it's one of the bus-lines in Weimar. Where else should it be?

German humor, dry and cynical.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Even when we know the punchline, we still don't get it.

Hold on, just Googled 'Buchenwald' ....it was a nazi concentration camp created in 1937. You've gotta hand it to the Germans, they certainly know how to laugh.

 

[HanauMan]

Er, I don't get it either. And I lived in good ol' Deutschland.

Buchenwald was a concentration camp near Weimar. But Buchenwald also means Beech woods.

But as they used to say, the thinnest book in the world is a German joke book.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Not to name the busline "memorial" and so on , but rather just "Buchenwald", as nothing would have changed since 1938.

Humor like Austrians.

 

[HanauMan]

Ah, Gedenkstaette Buchenwald.

I suppose that the local name Buchenwald was there before the camp. When I lived in Bavaria there were many Buchenwalds around as it just means a place with Beech trees.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Not to name the busline "memorial" and so on , but rather just "Buchenwald".

I think we're all flabbergasted at the finesse & subtlety of German humor.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Like I said, humor like Austrians.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Ah, Gedenkstaette Buchenwald.

I suppose that the local name Buchenwald was there before the camp. When I lived in Bavaria there were many Buchenwalds around as it just means a place with Beech trees.

No, there was no locality before the camp. And that's the curious thing, that Buchenwald is an official locality with town-sign, but there are no private homes.

 

[LizzieMaine]

This guy got his own quarter?

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Yep, it's a special one -- exactly the right thickness to use as a feeler gague when setting your valves every 3000 miles.

 

[scottyrocks]

Yep, it's a special one -- exactly the right thickness to use as a feeler gague when setting your valves every 3000 miles.

Wow, I've never seen a quarter only .006" thick.

 

[scottyrocks]

I think we're all flabbergasted at the finesse & subtlety of German humor.

I still don't get it.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

I still don't get it.

Neither do we, we're just being polite.