Wallensteinism

[Otto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "joeallonby" <vze422fs at verizon.net>
To: "barbara100" <barbara100 at jps.net>; "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: Wallensteinism


> Personally, I liked the fact that what is apparently German public radio
is
> Deutschlandfunk. I was disappointed to learn that this has nothing to do
> with George Clinton or Curtis Mayfield. Funk is apparently simply German
for
> radio. Oddly enough, while researching this I learned "sich von Angst in
die
> Hosen sheissen" and "die unter-hosen straffziehen". Mein schmerz! I wonder
> what the German phrase for "give someone a swirlie" is.
>
> Friede,
> Joe
>

"Swirlie" beats my dictionary.

to be scared shitless [sl.]  - sich vor Angst in die Hosen scheißen

 to give so. a wedgie -  jmd. die Hosen straffziehen (I know that only as
"strammziehen")

The Deutschlandfunk isn't very funky, but it's surely the only German radio
station where you can have the luck of listening to The Allman Bros. "In
Memory of Elizabeth Reed" at eight o'clock in the morning.

Love & Peace

Otto