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http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/a-german-bedbug-song-called-auf-der-mauer-auf-der-lauer/ http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/?p=4862 RosaMaria asked me about a German song called Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer on the Mama Lisa’s World Facebook Group. I found the YouTube video below of the song. Below the video I posted the German lyrics, followed by an English translation I did…
Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer
sitzt ‘ne kleine Wanze.
Seht euch nur die Wanze an,
wie die Wanze tanzen kann!
Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer
sitzt ‘ne kleine Wanze.
Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer
sitzt ‘ne kleine Wanz.
Seht euch nur die Wanz an,
wie die Wanz tanz kann!
Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer
sitzt ‘ne kleine Wanz.
Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer
sitzt ‘ne kleine Wan.
Seht euch nur die Wan an,
wie die Wan tan kann!
Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer
sitzt ‘ne kleine Wan.
Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer
sitzt ‘ne kleine Wa.
Seht euch nur die Wa an,
wie die Wa ta kann!
Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer
sitzt ‘ne kleine Wa.
Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer
sitzt ‘ne kleine W.
Seht euch nur die W an,
wie die W t kann!
Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer
sitzt ‘ne kleine W.
Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer
Sitzt ‘ne kleine -.
Seht euch nur die – an,
wie die – - kann!
Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer
Sitzt ‘ne kleine -.
English Translation
(I translated “wanze” as “bedbug”. It means bedbug or bug. You can use “buggy” instead of “bedbug” if you want a word with five letters to match the German):
On the wall, on the lookout,
Sits a small bedbug.
Look at just the bedbug,
How the bedbug can dance!
On the wall, on the lookout,
Sits a small bedbug.
On the wall, on the lookout,
Sits a small bedbu.
Look at just the bedbu,
How the bedbu can dance!
On the wall, on the lookout,
Sits a small bedbu.
On the wall, on the lookout
Sits a small bedb.
Look at just the bedb,
How the bedb can dance!
On the wall, on the lookout
Sits a small bedb.
On the wall, on the lookout
Sits a small bed.
Look at just the bed,
How the bed can dance!
On the wall, on the lookout
Sits a small bed.
On the wall, on the lookout
Sits a small be.
Look at just the be,
How the be can dance!
On the wall, on the lookout
Sits a small be.
On the wall, on the lookout
Sits a small ___.
Look at just the ___,
How the ___ can dance!
On the wall, on the lookout
Sits a small ___.
I always welcome comments, criticism or corrections on my translation or on the original German lyrics.
Enjoy!
Mama Lisa
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Hello everyone! I need a bit of advice for my Moehog, Bobby. He's my battle and LabRay pet. I love Moehogs a whole bunch and he finally zapped back into a Moehog, a Rainbow one at that. It's a cute color and I really like it. I'm thinking of stopping taking him to the Lab. it's going to be a hard to get his stats evened out ( Level 33 with 112HP- owch) but I can do it. However, that means I won't have any pets on my main that I can zap! My Moehog, Kyrii, Lenny, and Tuskaninny are a family and I'd hate to break them up by transferring one to another account. I feel almost like I'm wasting the LabMap by not using it. I'm not an avid avatar hunter, so I don't mind missing the chance for Island Quiggle and all that. I have about half the pieces to start a LabMap on my side for Zapping/Pounding fun. So I guess, my question is, do you think I should continue zapping for BD stats and PB clothes, or should I give him a break and just customize him with PBs? I've gotten many avatars and PB clothes from it already. I wouldn't be upset about taking a break from it.  Why am I so ridiculously cute?I'm feeling:  lonely
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http://www.languagehat.com/archives/003683.php István Deák has a NYRB review of a couple of books about Hungarian exiles in the U.S. that starts with a few jokes ("Another story was about a meeting of top US atomic scientists at which, when Enrico Fermi has stepped out of the room, the others sigh with relief: 'Now, at last, we can speak Hungarian'") and goes on to an astonishing list of people: Marton's nine [Hungarian] Jews include four nuclear scientists, two photographers, two film directors, and a writer. What both Marton and Frank demonstrate is that such Hungarians as the scientists Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller, the biochemist and sociologist Michael Polanyi, the photographer Robert Capa, the writer Arthur Koestler, and others have together altered the ways we think, act, and work. And unlike many of their predecessors, the two authors do not shy away from admitting that, with very few exceptions, the world-famous Hungarians they discuss [...] were Jews by religion, or at least converts of Jewish origin.
[...] Indeed, the ethnic and national identity of Theodore von Kármán, Karl Polanyi, Karl Mannheim, Nicholas Lord Kaldor of Newnham, Eugene Ormandy, Sir Georg Solti, Joseph Szigeti, Antal Dorati, George Szell, Fritz Reiner, Ferenc Molnár, Joe Pasternak, Sir Alexander Korda, Michael Curtiz, Brassaï, André Kertész, Marcel Breuer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and hundreds of other illustrious expatriates presented a dilemma to anti-Semitic and rightist Hungarians before and during World War II and, to a lesser extent, to Hungarian Communists after the war. Wow. I knew some of those people were Hungarians (mainly those with obviously Hungarian names, like Solti, Szigeti, and Dorati), but many of them I would never have guessed, and when you put them all together it's a hell of an impressive list.
In a footnote, Deák mentions an interesting fact about names: "...late in the eighteenth century, the Habsburg authorities gave the Jews of Hungary German-sounding names, many were later converted to Hungarian-sounding family names, and then again, when abroad, to German-, French-, or English/American-sounding names. Thus Manó Kaminer became Mihály Kertész while still in Hungary and Michael Curtiz when in the US."
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So I bought two pairs of shoes this week -- well, the one I actually bought a while ago but it was back-ordered, and then a pair of house slippers. The others are these, in the black, and you guys they are so comfortable. Finally! It took me months of searching and a giant Zappos order of failure and a week spent running around a conference in miserably uncomfortable cheap shoes, but I finally found a pair of comfortable heels that aren't hideous! I still wish I could have gotten something completely plain, but the detail on these is cute enough, and at least it's not a buckle or a moccasin-tie-thing or a faux loafer. I've been doing housework in them for hours and they're great, except for a slight cramp in the first joint of my right big toe, but that's more of a "not used to heels" thing. So, since I got those shoes and a bunch of stuff from my mom, it's time for a closet cleanout. I've got four big shopping-mall bags of clothes, four pairs of shoes, and two purses. I also threw out two pairs of slippers and three pairs of shoes that were a) on their last legs and b) redundant anyway. I have work boots I can wear for yard work, there's no reason for me to keep crappy sneakers around. The elastic-strap sandals I regret, but they were seriously about to fall apart. I'd like to have a pair of nice-ish casual sandals for wearing with skirts in the summertime, but that can obviously wait. So that brings me to... let's see... eightsorry, nine pairs of shoes and one pair of slippers. Three of them are costume-y: black men's wingtips, flat-soled blue boots with buckles, and old-fashioned brown suede heels. I may get around to selling those at some point, but I've been threatening to do that for a long time and it never materializes because I'm lazy. THIS JUST IN: I WANT EVERY T-SHIRT THIS WEBSITE SELLS Last Exit to NowhereOmni Consumer Products (Robocop) America Research Station Outpost #31 (The Thing) Amity Police (Jaws) AUGH HOLY SHIT THIS SITE IS SO FUCKING COOL
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First off: I believe in Weird Shit. Second off: Family lore says that the house we lived in in New Jersey when I was a baby was haunted by the ghost of the guy who committed suicide there (which was why my parents got a good deal on it). It WAS haunted, and my mother scared the ghost away when she finally lost her temper and screamed, "One of us has got to go, and it ain't gonna be me." Third off: ...I am my mother's child, and last time I was in a place with "weird shit" happening--one O-bon at a friend's apartment, and believe you me, there was some weird shit happening that week--when it seemed like whatever weird shit was in the house wanted me to leave it an offering of my booze, got, "FUCK YOU, I'm American, I don't play that shit. You ain't getting my booze", from me, and when the lights started flickering, I went, "Yeah, whatever. Until I see some bloody kanji on the walls, fuck off. You're not getting my booze," and whatever it was did, indeed, fuck right on off, and apparently fucked off permanently because my friend got back and was like, "OMG, what did you do, it's gone! :DDD" and her cats started going into the "haunted" room they had been avoiding the whole time she had lived there. So, yes. I wouldn't give a sweet flying goddamn if a house was supposedly haunted, because they are dead, I'm alive, and GODDAMN I PAID GOOD MONEY FOR THIS PLACE AND I AIN'T GOING NOWHERE, AND YOU ALSO ARE NOT GETTING MY BOOZE. Weird shit may or may not exist, but there are some constants. My place, my rules, and most importantly, my booze. XD Tags: weird shit
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Crumple-Horned Snorkacks (Fic):• Anonymous in hp_triangle wrote Candle in a Dark Place. By now, it’s just understood—Sirius looks after Lily when James is away. (James, Lily, Sirius, R: violence) • Anonymous in hp_darkfest wrote A Tale of Seasons. Her master’s victory is nothing like Bellatrix hoped for. She lost everything, and even the Dark Lord has no more use for her. The only thing that is left to her is one prisoner. (Neville, Bellatrix, R: torture/violence) • recrudescence wrote Keeping Up Appearances. The closest they normally came to speaking was during attendance, when Parkinson and Patil uttered consecutive “here”s, same as in Potions. (Pansy/Parvati, R) • ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) leela_cat wrote Into the Flames. In the midst of the destruction created by the flames of a dying dragon, Teddy and James find a safe haven where they can once again be together — if only for a short time. (Teddy/James, NC-17) Blibbering Humdingers (Art):• celestialsoda drew Sleepyhead (Remus, PG) • Various Artists at hump_day_smut drew Percy. (Percy, NWS!, incest) • ericahpfa drew Teddy. (Teddy Lupin, G) • zephre drew Entangled. (Harry/Neville, NWS!) Thestrals (Challenges, Communities, and Discussion):• dracobigbang made a Clarification to FAQ post. • daily_snitch posted their Wednesday Edition. • ginger_lust is open for prompt claiming. • harrypotterbang made an Official Dropout Post and a Rough Draft Submission Post. • Today's featured community is hp_darkfestReport:If you have a link for us, feel free to e-mail us at quibbler.report@gmail.com or leave a comment to this post.
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If you took all the yarn in my yarn stash and laid it end to end, it would be something like 30 miles long. Which isn’t that bad, really, but it’s quite a bit of yarn.
So I made a resolution. I won’t buy myself any yarn or fiber in 2010.
Please, stop laughing. Really. Control yourself. It’s undignified.
OK, I said buy for myself. I will buy for others (gifts and swaps), and I will buy for genuine work-related purposes. And I will accept free yarn, absolutely, without any hesitation.
Yarn without a specific project is out. Yarn that I decide in the yarn shop “Oh, I’ll make socks for Mom with this!” is out. I have to have the pattern and a known recipient before leaving to go buy the yarn. That’s the rule. In fact, we’ll make it accountable: I have to have posted to my blog or Facebook what I’m buying, and whose present it is being bought for before purchasing (this may mean updating to Facebook from my cell phone… it also may mean leaving and coming back to the shop, which is no bad thing).
But I will not buy any for me. Instead, I will participate in the great stash knit-down. If I run out of yarn, I suppose I will have to have a bout of tatting or thread-crocheting and use up some of my thread, too.
And, because yarn clubs are so fun, I am borrowing Allison’s suggestion. I took 1 skein of sock or lace yarn and 1 pattern that I want to knit with that yarn, and put it into a paper bag, which I then stapled shut. I did this 12 times, and on the 1st of each month, I will open a bag and make that project. It’s like Christmas every month!
I am taking bets on how long this lasts.
Tags: crochet and knit
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1. On Being Sarah
by Elizabeth Helfman
YA-fiction, read between 1995-98, about a young girl with severe cerebral palsy, who cannot speak and uses a letterboard to communicate. She has an older sister who I think calls her "Squib", and no, it's not the book Squib by Nina Bawden. I'm pretty sure it's told from her perspective, but is not first-person narrated. For some reason, I remember the corner of the school library it was in was either the author's last name R through Z, or title R through Z section!
2. No More Monsters for Me! by Peggy Parish
This one's in bits and pieces: pretty young (probably not chapter-style) book, read in late 80s or early 90s. All I remember: there are monsters hiding in the house, and a basement where the protagonist's (I don't even remember if it's a young girl or boy) grandma has lots of canned goods and jars of things like sauerkraut (maybe). It's a loooong shot. But the Where the Wild Things Are hype is bringing up memories of it.
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retreat.... 
bouncy
curious
