Odd things we know - Chefelf.com Night Life

QUOTE (SimeSublime @ Oct 18 2004, 09:36 AM)

QUOTE (Jane Sherwood @ Oct 16 2004, 12:13 PM)

I thought the word "shit" was a derivative of the German word "Scheißev".

I didn't realise that the German alphabet contained Greek characters. I would've assumed it was a typo, but not many keyboards have beta on them.

What? You mean you don't have non-standard characters on your keyboard? You're behind the times, dude. How else can we talk to people around the world unless we type in their native language? My keyboard can do everything from dress me to flush my toilet to take out an army that's attempting to invade my dorm room under false pretenses. I suppose yours is still stuck with your enter key too close to the apostraphe, and only has english and some function keys on it?

Ok, so that was way less funny than I thought it would be. I apologize.

Also, I've never seen greek letters in the German I've seen. It always seems to be this wierd square stuff if it's not in English characters...

This post has been edited by Slade: 18 October 2004 - 09:12 AM

- Van Gogh only sold one piece of art in his lifetime and that was for a very small sum of money.

_ Before WWI the German Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka painted a self portrait of himself as a soldier with a wound he eventually suffered later in the war.

- Along the same lines he painted a portrait of the father of one German family. Upon completion the family was offended and said it looked nothing like their father. Kokoschka declared that it he would come to look like the portrait. The family refused to pay for the painting so Kokoschka kept it. Shortly after the subject of the portrait suffered a stroke and ended up looking unquestionably similar to the painting. Enough so that the family pleaded Kokoschka to sell it to them. He refused.

- Before politics Hitler's primary desire in life was to be an artist or an architecht. However he was not terribly skilled at art and so was not excepted into the Royal Academy and he had not recieved his equivilant of a high school diploma so could not go into architecture. (If somebody had just decided to give the poor facist bastard a break we might have avoided one of the biggest scars on this planets history.)

- The landscape artist J.M.W. Turner claimed to have had himself tied to the mast of a ship during a terrible snowstorm stating that if he survived he'd have a hell of a thing to paint. His painting "snowstorm" is said to be the result of this.