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Who goes to hell - as far as those pious Bible Christians are concerned?

I suspect: EVERYBODY - except those maga-super-over-ÜBER-pious Bible Christians.

Am I right?

Phil White wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:49 am

Do keep well, everyone!

Thank you - and same to you!

Stay in good health - or: Bleib gesund!

gdwdwrkr wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 27, 2020 4:56 pm

It has a Yiddish sound but may be ersatz.

I also thought it was Yiddish, but it isn't.

Do you wear daffodils or leek?

When reading a title like "taking the high road" I always think of the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.

I was a baker in my early career. There is a lot of cross-over and some confusing definitions regarding different types of baked goods and many differing opinions about exactly what these different terms mean. I apprenticed under an Englishman and here's how it broke down in our little bakery.... P...

And: Thank you for your answers in this thread!

I have also posted my question there:

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads ... t-18701700

Now I see that some awful type of narrow-minded killjoy Mod has deleted half of my postings there.

I hope and a trust you are more open-minded here.

Phil White wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 21, 2020 6:44 pm

I am probably the worlds least qualified person to answer this, as I rarely, if ever, eat pastries, buns or cakes - apart from a very occasional croissant, although the last one would have been about twelve years ago.

So maybe some-one else could help us both?

Danish pastry - and Rosinenschnecke Danish pastry Danish pastry with apricots and cinnamon Presuming that it is like a Rosinenschnecke. Most of these Teilchen are called "Danish" or "Danish pastry" in GB. Why Danish I have no idea, but that's what my parents always order when we're in a German café ...

Jonathon Green wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 09, 1996 7:00 am

If slang lexicograopher Eric Partridge is correct, then so too is the suggestion that brass tacks is indeed rhyming slang for 'facts'.

Let us not forget:

On the first day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.

Did you know?

Bella Festas daz Nadal!

Maybe Benjamin Franklin did not say so after all ... “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.” — Benjamin Franklin Who wouldn’t want to believe that one of America’s most important founding fathers — especially one who was known for consuming his fair share of ...

Archived Reply wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:46 am

Isn't there a natural rhythm to many of these non-reversible couplets?

I think so!
It is the rhythm!

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Btw: Nobody in Germany ever says: "Donner und Blitzen!"