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Originally posted by Mr Flibble
Congrats to your family, Tyb! Hope all goes well.

Have a beer and a very large sausage!

Originally posted by Scayde
Cool That Uncle Tibby...*Beir Chus*...

Originally posted by Tybaltus
I wish I had taken a German class, the class in college got filled up too quick. Ill assume that means, "Salud", or "To Your Health" or "Cheers" or "Toast", am I right?

Originally posted by Tybaltus
I wish I had taken a German class, the class in college got filled up too quick. Ill assume that means, "Salud", or "To Your Health" or "Cheers" or "Toast", am I right?

Originally posted by Mr Flibble
This is why I'm glad I brought my babelfish

Originally posted by Scayde
[ignorancemode] What is "babelfish???[/ignorancemode]

Originally posted by Mr Flibble
What??? You've never read "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"?

The babelfish

The internet version

Originally posted by Tybaltus
Oi. Im with Scayde. Ive certainly never heard of babelfish.

@Scayde-Ignorance mode? Youre starting to sound like me!!

Originally posted by Scayde
OMG..I hope not...

You take that back or I'll do more than just paddle your bum next time...

Originally posted by Tybaltus
Ooops.....thats my queue to bail.......

*Runs for the hills and is gone in a flash (aka-moved too fast to get bloody hog tied )*

Originally posted by Mr Flibble
@Scayde, I see lesson #5 worked

Originally posted by Scayde


T' and I will make a man of him yet...

Originally posted by Rob-hin
*Puts on his lederhosen*
Let's dance!

You know, I never really understood The Oktoberfest. I've seen tv programmes about it, since we (in holland) get some german tv stations. All I understaind is that there is lots of beer and bratwurst, and though this is actually enough... I'm curious.

What's it about?

@Rob-hin: I am glad to see you are getting into the spirit of the holiday! For full information regarding Oktoberfest, you can try http://www.oktoberfest.de. Otherwise, to answer your question, here is how it all got started (copied from said site):

The Wiesn - from a wedding to the largest public festival in the world!

It all began with the wedding of the Bavarian crown prince Ludwig (later known as King Ludwig the first) to princess Therese from Saxony-Hildburghausen, hence the name of the Theresienwiese or Therese's green, on October 12, 1810. Five days later, the National Guard organized a large public horse race to ensure that the Bavarian folk could also partake in the wedding celebration. It was decided that the festival should be repeated at the same time the following year, which marked the birth of the "October-Festivals".

In 1811, the Bavarians additionally celebrated an agricultural festival. In contrast to the horse race, this festival has held to this day. Every three years this "central agricultural festival" takes place on the southern part of the Theresienwiese.

The enormous entertainment spectrum today didn't exist in the past: A couple of carousels and several beer stands were all at the time. The showman business was first developed in the 1870's, and the first beer tents started in 1896.

As Munich was considerably smaller in the past, the proprietors and event organizers went out to the Wiesn for the starting ceremonies. This tradition is still reflected today with the entry of the Wiesn proprietors on Saturday morning in the parade.

The mayor Thomas Wimmer first started the well-known Tradition of tapping the beer keg in the 1950's. The mayor taps the first keg on the first Wiesn-Saturday at exactly 12:00pm and calls out "O'zapft is'!" (which means the keg has been tapped). Since then, the mayor has always tapped the first keg.

But the Wiesn also has its dark side: 13 visitors were killed in a bomb attack at the main entrance in 1980 and over 200 were seriously injured. The Wiesn has been cancelled a total of 24 times in it's history. The reasons were: war, cholera and inflation.

That was the history of the Wiesn in short form. Curious? Then continue clicking to discover further exciting details about the history of the Wiesn.

Peace.