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  1. brunch -> mathematics Medicine students had to do math lessons. The med lessons were in afternoon after professors finished their surgeries. Math lessons for mathematics after pre-diploma were mainly after lunch. So we were sleeping long, had a late but big breakfast and no lunch... Nurse school was same building with mathematics, so while the med students were sleepy in evening we were full awake-
  2. It was. At our open-doors day 2022 we sold 500 lunch pakets. For a village with just 128 people, there must have been visitors from the surroundings. Not all came to watch our firefighting equip or basic training in firefighting and prevention, some for music and good food. From the 128 people more than the half are active or passive firefighters. Actually in our area of responsibility (village borders and forest belongig it to) there was no single fire for 30+ years. Hornet and wasp nests, flooding, fallen trees after a storm, car crashes on a secondary,... - but not a single fire. Neighbour villages were not so happy.
  3. Sorry missed the birthday We had disaster warming at thursday. We were pumping a garage which got flooded in the valley. No car in, but tons with Sauerkraut, a fish smoker filled with trouts, potatoes, onions and other storable food all swimming. Owner wanted to throw it away. But we firefighters were hungry, it was clear water from a rivelet and we had a field kitchen with us. Sauerkrautpuffer mit Sosse von geräucherter Forelle - Yummy Sauerkrautpuffer is like potato pancake but using Sauerkraut. We cut the useful parts from the smoked trouts away and put them in a mincer found in the garage and made a mousse/sauce from it. Welcome to the home of gourmands. Let the gourmets and food control in the towns...
  4. warp-drive -> easy Don't know what is so complicated avout warp, every one can do it.... The 'Enterprise' has a crew of 500. Around 100 you see in the series. The other 400 are needed for warp speed. Scotty crying into the secret rainbow phone which is so secret nobody has ever seen it in TV. 'Turn on the music, we are going Warp speed!' . It's just a jump to the left And then a step to the right Put your hands on your hips You bring your knees in tight But it's the pelvic thrust That really drives you insane
  5. The weather forecast for today was: We can't predict it. One place may have 100litre rain per square metre, the neighbour village staying dry, there might be tornados but we can't say where, there might be hail storm with size of 2cm, there might be 34C, ... A high pressure from scandinavia will meet a deep pressure from mediterran just in our area. All I know is our house is centuries old and was never hit by heavy weather being half in a hill. So I do what I allways do: hope that my ancestors were wise in choosing the place for the house.
  6. gold -> ion engine My university was using gold for their early tests with ion engines. Students had to do protocols how much they used. Took a while till a working ion engine saved the Artemis satellite.
  7. rapid eye movements -> Homonym REM is either this REM sleep thing or my former ability to check a party room for the most beautiful girl in few nano-seconds.
  8. Feuerschwanz (fire tail) is a german medieval band. Normally doing funny medieval songs in German, like 'Untot im Drachenboot / undead in a dragon boat". But they did also a great cover of ManOWar's 'Warriors Of The World United'.
  9. misunderstood -> R.E.M. The One I Love is often wished in radio as a love song - but it isn't. And yes I listen to radio and not a mp3 player when I drive a car. I like the randomness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_I_Love_(R.E.M._song)
  10. homoiothermic -> cold-blooded Cold-blooded horses encompass the draft breeds such as Percherons, Shires, Clydesdales, and Belgians. Large-boned and heavy-bodied, these horses were developed to use in draft and agricultural work, and were selected for a calm temperament.
  11. In averagen every 9000-10000 years a vulcan eruption happens at my place. The last was 13000 years ago. And yes, we get little quakes up to 3.5 a few times a year. Montreal -> Ugly The Montreal is one of the more ugly cars from Alfa Romeo. The sportscar before they built the Montreal was the Stradale, better name and design in my unholy opinion.
  12. Our second came with lot of origami stuff at weekend. She has to do a lecture at university to other students how origami is used in orthopedics, heart surgery, ... We were the testrun and had a lot of fun folding thinks. My brother has a origami cayak boat. I works fine but at my place: too much wildwater with stones.
  13. Final check after my whiplash. Got allowance to work with explosives again. But I felt weaker than before the check. Docs asked me if I would spend blood because they allways run low around summer breaks. 0-negativ
  14. No rain for weeks. Luckily we were creative last year and built a reservoir for water in case of a nearby forest fire. That it looks like a swimming pool was not intented or planed. Daily tests for ruptures in the ceramic tiles are done. Other call it swimming in a pool. But since it is a water reservoir I call it savety tests.
  15. six million dollar man -> nurse They are testing exo-skeletons attached to nurses to help them lifting heavy people, both passive and motorized ones. Out second is at university: orthopedics and robotics. A classmate lost both arms down to the shoulder plates. This made her considering this combination of fields. The exoskeletons for nurses cover both aspects too. She says they are a great help.
  16. stars -> Hollywood Walk of Fame But I think for us Germans finding a place in Walhalla is more important. Around 200 people found their place in Walhalla.
  17. Sagacious -> Sagittarius My zodiac, but very close to capricorn
  18. Confucius -> Chattius It is sad that whenever I say something clever and philosophic of my own - the person I talk too asks 'Confucius, or?' I have a doctor in pholosophy after all. Okay it is because mathematics were for more than 400 years part of philosophy at my university. This is my result with lot of wisdom and not from the other Mr C : Imagination is more important than game guides, because a wiki has only a limited number of guides
  19. humans -> confusing If homo sapiens shares 98% of genom with a chimpanzee, but west europeans have up to 2.5% genom from neandertals, are west europeans less human than chimpanzee? There must be a reason why I was nicknamed Monkey as a goalie when I was young.
  20. hold the line -> outdated My direct ancestors were mainly hunters and forest people. They were drafted into Jäger troops and not into line infantry. They were using forest for cover and sniping enemy officers to break morale. Mounted to change positions quickly or scout. Much like The Patriot with Mel Gibson but fighting for the British: Defending a farm at Waterloo, stopping US invasion into Canada, ...
  21. aerospace -> AKAFLIEG At university we cooperated with some Akafliegs, We did some mathematics for their glider wings. Was lucky because I had a glider license and could test one of their ideas, sadly not the one I wanted
  22. effort -> Stuka Some years back we had a female little owl in our barn named after the dive bomber: Stuka. One wing was mauled probably by a fox. But she was breeding every year. Doing a spiraling nearly vertical dive on insects and mice and then hopping the ladder up again to her nest. In winter we placed some meat. We put rings on the nestlings and this year one of them was breeding again in the barn.
  23. ego -> egoistic I was allways happy that the country-road to our house was keeping dates for my daughters away who needed sport-cars with low spoilers to boost their ego.
  24. I have -> a Lamborghinetta what a long word for a small tractor dismounted and waiting for an overhaul for three years, if I find the time. Our glider had and the Corrado of my wife had priority Mr Lamborghini built tractors before he told Mr Ferrari that he was dissatisfied with his Ferrari car. Ferrari said that Mr L should stick to his tractors and Mr L said to Mr F that he could build a better car. The rest is history. But these italians have so cute names: Lamborghinetta Picture from wiki, mine is from grandpa who was married to an italian and is in halves on palettes. Colour is oily rust, should be white.
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