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Jul 04, 2006 22:17

In Bern, halfway between Germany and Italy, and those two are playing each other in the football. People from both armies are watching on giant screens in public squares. Let's hope this ends well. Right now I'm in a hotel which provides free Internet access to its guests, which is a pretty good deal for people staying at this hotel, and an even ( Read more... )

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Forget the World Cup dadinthepond July 4 2006, 22:53:08 UTC

Kobayashi just won at Coney Island for the 6th straight year. 53 3/4 hot dogs in 12 minutes, a world record. I knew you would want to know.
You are going to love Bern. Switzerland is such a great country. By the way, please stop holding back on the Hasselhoff updates, I know this is the big news story over there.

Re: Forget the World Cup dadinthepond July 5 2006, 16:23:06 UTC

but don't forget to mention Joey Chestnut, who actually was leading Kobayashi for a good portion of teh contest, only to come up short at teh end with 52 dogs & buns, breaking his previous US record of 50.

Matt, we got your postcards here at teh library, and I must say that your eye for detail is still sharp as ever with the 'view of Stuckeman from the Forum' postcard.

cheers

Tim AumAn

Re: Forget the World Cup mcacrossthepond July 7 2006, 17:50:29 UTC

It's good to know we've got some American presence back in the game. It's too bad Kobayashi couldn't make it to the 75th Annual Top Dog Regionals, though.

momacrossdpond July 6 2006, 15:38:28 UTC

Did you ride a horse? Don't forget to have some Swiss chocolate and fondue (it was big over there in the 70's). I wonder where you would have ended up if you had gone the wrong way on the train ???? You can still climb every mountain, even though you skipped Salzburg.
FYI : the "pun disease" comes from your maternal grandfather, so I'm a victim as well.

mcacrossthepond July 6 2006, 20:30:01 UTC

I didn't ride a horse, I figured it's just a big fleshy canoe and that didn't turn out well in the first place. The Swiss chocolate is unbelievable. We may have fondue for lunch tomorrow before we leave. We would have ended up in the same place we had started, and wouldn't have made it to Bern before the reception at our hostel closed, and would have had a bad, bad time. I am twenty-one, going on twenty-two.

FYI: The closest thing to a pun I ever heard come out of Grandpa's mouth was, "What is this, a show about climbing fences?" Grandpa never understood Knight Rider. And now Hasselhoff has paid dearly. Still no news on that front, except that his appearance in the pantomime adaptation of Peter Pan has been cancelled.

carmanavenue July 9 2006, 03:28:30 UTC

Oh, snap, you brought it back around to Hasselhoff!

I don't recall any of grandpa's puns either, but perhaps this riddle is a pun I've still not figured out: At one of our birthday parties, he was asking me the name of a "hunk" on television, and I never found out who it was. He kept saying "you know, the hunk", and I listed as many "hunks" as I could think of: Johnny Depp, The Incredible Hulk, Hasselhoff--oh snap!