Oktubre 8, 2009

All that texting.

I sneezed downstairs. Got the text: "Gesundheit."

18 komento:

MadisonMan ayon kay ...

Sounds like someone has an unlimited texting plan.

Chase ayon kay ...

Happens that way in our home all the time. Texting is ultra convenient. Most common texts to others in the house:

"Dinner will be ready in 10 minutes".

"Can you turn that down"?

"Anyone up for a movie"?

~ and just between me and the missus:

"Ur hot".

"Want to meet upstairs to . . . "?

Meade ayon kay ...

Funny to me was hearing the out loud laugh after she read the text. And then getting the reply:
"lol"

Bissage ayon kay ...

Like the inestimable Meade, I too prefer to say “Gesundheit” rather than “God Bless You.”

I don’t expect that it will ever become the custom to say “Sebelius.”

bearbee ayon kay ...

Gesundheit

Funny.

I'd text it if I could spell it.

save_the_rustbelt ayon kay ...

The honeymoon phase is still ongoing.

Hope is lasts forever.

bearing ayon kay ...

Gesundheit. :-) Someone's from Cincinnati.

When I was in graduate school (in Minnesota), I had a bunch of other grad students, several of them foreign, over at my apartment for spaghetti. Someone sneezed, I automatically said "Gesundheit," and was rewarded by one of the funniest double-takes I ever saw from the German grad student...

David ayon kay ...

Awww, how cute.

In our house, when I sneeze, the dog barks and my wife laughs.

Better than the other way around.

Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...

Higher females prefer better texters.

kjbe ayon kay ...

bearing - my daughter tells a similar story. While spending her junior year in Frieburg (from the UofM), through a conversation with housemates, they were amazed that 'Gesundheit' was the reply she had grown up with. Milwaukee-German, this one.

Tibore ayon kay ...

"bearbee said...
Gesundheit

Funny.

I'd text it if I could spell it."


Seconded. My texts would've read

"Gesun..."

"Gesund..."

"Gesun... aw, screw it. GodBlessU."

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Word Verification: raticti. Ratatouille, but made with ziti. :D

Triangle Man ayon kay ...

Gesundheit. :-) Someone's from Cincinnati.

Because there are no Germans in Wisconsin?

Tibore ayon kay ...

Thought it was primarily Norwegian decendants myself.

Tibore ayon kay ...

Whoops. Correction: I'm thinking Minnesota. Not Wisconsin. Error on my part.

Yaaah... Minnesoooooooohtah. Theh state where you taaaake youuur boooht ouht to the laaaaaaake to go fishin in.

(*ducks thrown fruit*)

Triangle Man ayon kay ...

Correction: I'm thinking Minnesota. Not Wisconsin.

Minnesota has it's fair share of Norwegians, but German ancestry is still most prevalent. This map shows it nicely.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

1. In Germany, the health minister is called the Gesundheitminister: http://class-factotum.blogspot.com/2009/09/germany-5-gesundheitminister-minister.html

2. I call my husband from the basement because I am too lazy to climb two flights of stairs. Isn't that normal? Our plan gives us free calls between our two phones.

Bissage ayon kay ...

You are sooooo good looking!

rhhardin ayon kay ...

Gesundheit : multiply by 9, divide by 5, and add 32.

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