Today mixtape presents a picture edition of the foreign language category. Tim from England helped us out as a model for the translation pictures but I had to change the French one.

english: loser

german: Verlierer

french: perdant

“Zu Gast bei Freunden Trainern” scheint ja das diesjährige Motto der WM zu sein. Sogar Menschen, die - so wie ich - die Tipptabellen als Schlußlicht anführen, wurde mit diesen göttlichen Eingebungen gesegnet, welche die deutsche Nationalmannschaft bis zum Weltmeistertitel zu führen werden.

An dieser Stelle präsentiert Frau Merkel übrigens den ersten freischwebenden Antigravitationsball der Welt. Ja, so sind sie - die Physiker.

The Guggenheim Museum in N.Y. organized an exhibition in a German museum to present us some ttth-content:

In October 1993, Henry M. Buhl purchased a photograph by Alfred Stieglitz of Georgia O’Keeffe’s hands. This photograph would come to be the cornerstone of a private collection that now includes over one thousand images by the medium’s foremost practitioners as well as little-known and emerging artists.

During a job interview one colleague was asked if he would be prepared to learn some economics, and he stated:

“Scientists are able to do everything, really everything - maybe not everything, we have some shortcomings in arts!”

He didn’t get the job…

But we have our own kind of art:

After a donation for the new roof of the Buddist temple in Nara, Japan, the monks offer you to write your name and a greeting on a tile, which they will use. Tim and Sheena put some ttth-content on top of the temple for us.

Good work, guys!

To achieve some luck the English “keep the fingers crossed”. The Germans “press their thumb”, but we don’t press it against something, we press the thumb itself:

Here is just a little excursion in pressing thumbs the german way:

step 1:
open the hand

step 2:
slightly close the hand

step 3:
angle your thumb until it touches your palm

step 4:
close the four other fingers around the thumb and PRESS!

Easy way to get some instant luck, isn’t it?

Stefan: “Sunshine makes us feel better!”

Rrrrrrrrichtig! Let’s go outside and have some bbq.

Yesterday I hesitated for a short moment to buy this fabulous sportsman’s accessory. Like all Germans know, they look perfect with white socks and shorts and convert normal men into real heart breakers (even more than a French accent, right?).

Right now, it’s also an exquisite time to buy those “Addiletten”. Men could sit all day on their couch with the feet on the table watching the football world championship AND their feet with this awesome decoration. I tell you, that doesn’t make you a heart breaker and a good lover only, but it also makes you an outstanding athlete.

It really works! I’ll buy mine on Monday!

Watching the footy game we had a decent barbecue. Though we are not allowed to use the charcoal barbecue grill on the balcony outside the seminar room anymore, we just decided to do it the chemist’s way.

Stefan: “The championship is a monument of occidental television!”

says nothing but sounds very pathetic and philosophic.