My quick trip to Germany

[Onkel Neal]

I got to meet up with a couple Subsim members this weekend in Dusseldorf, Dan D and Penguin!

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=196302

I thought I better wear "the shirt" for this important occasion. ;)
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=655&pictureid=5768

[Jimbuna]

Been following the thread and looks like you had a great time.

Top marks to Dan D and Penguin for the hospitality shown to Neal (in the finest SubSim tradition).

Now...a close up of that infamous shirt :O:

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/1274/img0419c.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/585/img0419c.jpg/)

[Onkel Neal]

For some reason, that picture makes me hungry...:hmmm:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Crikey, how much did you win, Neal? :hmmm:


:O:

[August]

Crikey, how much did you win, Neal? :hmmm:


:O:


Enough not to be self conscious about dressing like that in public! :)

[Jimbuna]

For some reason, that picture makes me hungry...:hmmm:

Aye there were a few bits and pieces on that bench I'd never previously tasted before....once I was able to get past Jason :)

[Penguin]

It was very nice to meet Dan and Neal in person and hang around with them:up:

Dan told me about the (in-)famous shirt and its history when we spotted Neal. Well, I don't think it's bad - but I have no taste anyway :O:
And compared to the people running around the streets in Düsseldorf that evening - guys dressed in wedding dresses, animal costumes and other weird stuff - we were 3 super-models!

However it looks like I have glued Prince Charles' ears onto my head in that pic. :huh:

[Herr-Berbunch]

And compared to the people running around the streets in Düsseldorf that evening - guys dressed in wedding dresses, animal costumes and other weird stuff - we were 3 super-models!



I didn't think Reece, McBee, and Krash could make it! :hmmm:


:O:

[Penguin]

I didn't think Reece, McBee, and Krash could make it! :hmmm:


:O:

:rotfl2:

Jim and Steed apparently only made it to the airport:

http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rp-online.de%2Fregion-duesseldorf%2Fduesseldorf%2Fnachrichten%2Fdiebe-am-flughafen-festgenommen-1.2894394&act=url

:D

[Dan D]

Like Neal, I would like to thank Penguin very much for being such a great host. You, Sir, are truly an original. It was also nice to meet your friends ***8222;Rat, Mozart, Aldi, Atze and Lumpi***8220; etc. and to listen to punk rock music until 4:30 a.m. I very much like the ***8222;Black Lips***8220; now and I dedicate this song to our cute waitress who was from Vermont/USA and who served Neal a cooled down ice tea when he asked for it.

Black Lips ***8211; ***8222;Ain't***8220; Comin' Back
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYkdazmFWwc&feature=related)
Walked back to my car following the tram tracks the next morning. I bought a Börek (spinach, feta cheese) which was still warm because it had just left the oven, ate it and headed back home but had to take a 2 hours nap at a parking area on the autobahn because I felt exhausted.

[Onkel Neal]

Haha, yeah, I forgot about the iced tea. :haha: You think with all these restaurants and bars trying to be cool and exotic with their menu, they wouldn't fall down in spasms when a Texan asks for iced tea. Even the Vermont waitress tried to resist: I said, come on, that guy has ice in his drink, you can make tea, I bet you have sugar and lemon in your bar... make some iced tea! :88)

I'll dedicate this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKmebVdnvnw)to the taxi driver who picked me up in the middle of the construction zone, where the sidewalks disappeared.

[nikimcbee]

I didn't think Reece, McBee, and Krash could make it! :hmmm:


:O:

You are correct!:har:

[Jimbuna]

:rotfl2:

Jim and Steed apparently only made it to the airport:

http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rp-online.de%2Fregion-duesseldorf%2Fduesseldorf%2Fnachrichten%2Fdiebe-am-flughafen-festgenommen-1.2894394&act=url

:D

I only do airports if I'm getting a lift in a stretched limo on arrival :cool:

[Onkel Neal]

Here's the tea, thanks, Vermont Girl!

[Penguin]

I've uploaded a lighthouse-shirt pic to the other thread, for the people who want to print one for themselves :)


Black Lips ***8211; ***8222;Ain't***8220; Comin' Back
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYkdazmFWwc&feature=related)
Walked back to my car following the tram tracks the next morning. I bought a Börek (spinach, feta cheese) which was still warm because it had just left the oven, ate it and headed back home but had to take a 2 hours nap at a parking area on the autobahn because I felt exhausted.

Great that you remembered them, "my" summer band this year.
Well I also wasn't too alive the next day and didn't manage to play baseball like I told my friend - yes the old age (and some hangover :D)


Here's the tea, thanks, Vermont Girl!

Bringing back the secret of iced tea to the American expatriates :haha:
Favorite dialogue when we left: Waitress: "How do you know a guy from Texas?" Dan: "Is this so unusual to meet an American here" - W:"I have only met about 4 in the whole year I'm here" :o
We saw dozens of Americans walking through the town this night alone :), I explained to her that every American knows Düsseldorf because Grandpa Simpson parachuted into the city during WW2. :know:

[August]

Here's the tea, thanks, Vermont Girl!

I think most of us would rather see the Vermont Girl!

[nikimcbee]

I think most of us would rather see the Vermont Girl!


Who's this Vermont Girl? Neal, are you forgeting to tell us something? Subsim gossip has gotta know.:hmmm:

[Onkel Neal]

You guys are pretty close to being dirty old men,:cool: the Vermont Girl was very young.

I would have loved to have staged the Chair Trick on her, but when I told the table how it works, it got very quiet and they kinda just looked blankly at me... I guess I have a weird sense of humor. :arrgh!:
http://www.subsim.com/nucleus/media/1/20050927-chairtrick.jpg

[HunterICX]

I guess I have a weird sense of humor. :arrgh!:


No it's not you...the Germans just don't have one :O:

HunterICX

[Jimbuna]

I think most of us would rather see the Vermont Girl!

DITTO

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6356/av129190fjwl3.gif

[August]

You guys are pretty close to being dirty old men,:cool: the Vermont Girl was very young.

I would have loved to have staged the Chair Trick on her, but when I told the table how it works, it got very quiet and they kinda just looked blankly at me... I guess I have a weird sense of humor. :arrgh!:
http://www.subsim.com/nucleus/media/1/20050927-chairtrick.jpg

Old enough to be a waitress in a foreign country, old enough to oogle sez I. :arrgh!:

[Penguin]

I would have loved to have staged the Chair Trick on her, but when I told the table how it works, it got very quiet and they kinda just looked blankly at me... I guess I have a weird sense of humor. :arrgh!:


Well, me and my friend Moz we both had our girlfriends with us. They both worked as a waitress during college, so we just knew that making fun of a waitress could lead to violent repercussions....:dead: - just remember the reaction you got from my Frau when you mentioned that I'd possess something crazy like rights.... :huh:



No it's not you...the Germans just don't have one :O:

HunterICX

:hmph: hrumph
I have read the "Extended Encyclopedia of German Humor"










- all 4 pages :smug:

[Schroeder]

:hmph: hrumph
I have read the "Extended Encyclopedia of German Humor"



- all 4 pages :smug:
Must have been a special edition.:stare:
Mine only has two....the cover included.:shifty:

[Jimbuna]

Must have been a special edition.:stare:
Mine only has two....the cover included.:shifty:

Which is one more page than my version :O:

[Madox58]

I get an error trying to find this.
:hmmm:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n12/privateer_2006/Error_02.jpg

:03:
:har:

[nikimcbee]

You guys are pretty close to being dirty old men,:cool: the Vermont Girl was very young.

I would have loved to have staged the Chair Trick on her, but when I told the table how it works, it got very quiet and they kinda just looked blankly at me... I guess I have a weird sense of humor. :arrgh!:
http://www.subsim.com/nucleus/media/1/20050927-chairtrick.jpg

Well, as long as she "lets you" surf at subsim once in awhile and she makes you dinner, I guess she's okay.:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Well, as long as she "lets you" surf at subsim once in awhile and she makes you dinner, I guess she's okay.:hmmm:

Ah ya soft bugga!! http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/4585/ahfooey1.gif