On Oct 17, 2:16pm, Dan Resler wrote: > OK, I give up. I bought one of Richard's mugs and have been puzzled > about the word NETVERNUGEN written across the top - what does it mean? > I asked a friend of mine who is a German native plus she teaches > German here at VCU and she replied that she had no idea. Is it a > (misspelled) take off from `fahrvergnugen', which means, I believe, > "driving joy" or "joy of driving"? i.e. is it suppose to indicate joy > of netting (vanagon list joy?) or something like that? It is indeed a take-off on fahrvergnu:gen, or driving (fahren) pleasure (vergnu:gen) bastardized into net (internet) vergnu:gen, or internet pleasure, or some silly Americanized thing like that... Anyway, for everyone else who wants to see and understand this, I have plenty more mugs and stickers for sale. Feel free to buy some, as I still haven't quite broken even yet... :( HAppy Friday! -- ____________________________ Poor Richard is rapalmer@unity.ncsu.edu `/""""/""""/|""|'|""||""| '\ http://www4.ncsu.edu/eos/users/r/rapalmer/www/ /____/____/ |__| |__||__| | '68 VW Crew Cab | \ /V\ /====================| '67 VW Camper-Nellie, the Wild Goose |()\ \W/ /()| _ _ |"I spend half my life explaining to Christians | \ / | / \ / \ | _-( ) why I'm a Deadhead, and the other =C========C==_| ) |--------| ) |=] _-{_}_) half explaining to Deadheads why \_\_/__.. \_\_/_ \_\_/ \_\_/__.__. I'm a Christian." |
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