I have direct experience of that dialect. I spoke the regional dialect well, and when I got out of the army and started at the University, I signed up for a 10 hour intensive German course. The instructor asked each of us to say something in German. When it was my turn, I spoke for a minute or two, introducing myself, and generally being friendly. The teacher, Frau Doktor Haas smiled and bet me she could tell me within 20 klicks, where I had learned German. I agreed and she nailed it. I was stationed at Dolan Barracks, in Schwaebisch-Hall in 1960 -1962. She admitted that she was cheating a little because she had been born and raised in Crailsheim, about 20 klicks down the road. She said my grammar was 'schrecklisch, being pure Swabian,...

You *DO* know what a 'teabagger' is, don't you? What the act of 'teabagging' is?

Your entire rant is an insult to the *Tea Party* movement. Perhaps you, Like Bill O'Reilly have avoided learning the vocabulary of the liberal left and the 'GLBT' smear artists. You, like O'Reilly have no real idea what you are talking about.

Spot on. Y'all other posters (and I mean by that all you Bible-thumping, moralistic hypocrites) do not have any right to tell anyone else that you aren't raising what to do with their lives. Even if you are raising them, how successful has the result been, when your kids move out of your hate-infested 'homes' leave for the big city and never come back to visit, except perhaps to your funerals. How successful do you feel when they tell you or show you that they have no interest in your Cotton Mather style religious stupidity? Yet you persist in being social irritants. What happened to the Libertarian roots of Conservatism? The whole part about 'minding your own durn business?

As for Peter and his 'tort damages' idiocy, to which...

... and the posting mechanism won't let me correct it. there is no space in the '.pdf' at the end of the link.

It should be,

http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/WattsChanner_Bulk_Food.p df

It should be,
http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/WattsChanner_Bulk_Food.p df

This is a wonderful story, that illustrates and expands on several points in this article.

The link points to a PDF file, a free science-fiction story by Peter Watts and Laurie Channer. The name of the piece is "_Bulk Food_".

I think it's hilarious, but I don't think the hysterical libtard trolls here will appreciate it very much.

http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/WattsChanner_Bulk_Food.p df

DeeDee in SE Arizona

This is a wonderful story, that illustrates and expands on several points in this article.

The link points to a PDF file, a free science-fiction story by Peter Watts and Laurie Channer. The name of the piece is "_Bulk Food_".

I think it's hilarious, but I don't think the hysterical libtard trolls here will appreciate it very much.

http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/WattsChanner_Bulk_Food.p df

DeeDee in SE Arizona