lcarreau - Feb 6, 2010 6:46 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: Hmmm ...Here in the Western World, someone once told me:
"This is da only way to play a fiddle, son !!!"
: ))))
yatsek - Feb 7, 2010 5:08 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Hmmm ...He was obviously wrong, brother !!! : ))))
Here's your non-musical bonus, Larry, for your involvement in the transoceanic musical exchange. The map shows things before war I.
lcarreau - Feb 7, 2010 7:12 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: Hmmm ...Bohemia was part of the Austrian Empire?
Interesting, Jacek. That takes a lot of
confusion out of my thought process.
I'm not trying to offend anybody, but that
map, (which is a good tool for understanding), resembles a jigsaw puzzle !!!
Hungary remains the largest piece of the puzzle, right? I am thanking my lucky stars
that I don't have to learn Hungarian.
Yes, I have to ADMIT that we are quite
"spoiled" here in the Western World. : ))
yatsek - Feb 8, 2010 2:23 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Hmmm ...Well, we don't have to learn Hungarian. We have to learn English, not necessarily American though. :)
Austria-Hungary
Czech history
lcarreau - Feb 8, 2010 9:52 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: Hmmm ...Very interesting ...
In a "nutshell," you're telling me
there was a "tumultuous uprising" in the year
1620, when the Bohemian Protestants were
CRUSHED by the Austrian Imperialists ???
And, this sparked a war that lasted for 30
years in central/eastern Europe ???
And ... because of that war, we now see this area as a "fragmented paradoxical puzzle,"WHERE everybody has to learn 5 or 6 languages, and the map gives people "headaches and heartaches" each & every time they look upon it ??? ??
I think I would have fought on the side of the Protestants, even though my ancestors
immigrated to America; where I later became
Catholic.
But ... being that I have failed to turn back the hands of time, I have to live with the fact that the WORLD remains a puzzle that I will never completely understand.
So ... I think I'll have that Czech beer now,
and take a rest before awakening to a world
that will NEVER be quite the same.
Thanks, Jacek !!! : ))
P.S. - (Never in 1,000 years did I think
I would learn so much on a computer site
such as Summitpost.)
Never !
yatsek - Feb 10, 2010 3:12 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Hmmm ...Never again ? :))
Talking of beer, Larry, the pint of Czech Pilsner down there in the valley in the photo – inside the cool, quaint inn at the crossroads – was one of the unforgettable moments on that mini-trek of mine.
lcarreau - Feb 10, 2010 9:13 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: Attention .....Here's a famous quote from Mister Meltzer :
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." -- Bernard Meltzer."
: )))
But, if we examine this further ...
Did Mister Meltzer actually KNOW what he was
talking about, or was it all just a
horrible and unthinkable dream ???
yatsek - Feb 11, 2010 6:49 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Attention .....You can always find the answer here
yatsek - Feb 12, 2010 3:29 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Attention .....I ain't that unlucky. It's always blowing up in my face! :-)
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