For those of you who don't visit Annti's Site...

and you really SHOULD, I just introduced someone you should see. A very successful lady from Massachusetts. Gayle Tufts. She married a man from Bremen, and is a stand-up comedienne, singer, and can be wildly funny. After seeing her on German tee-vee this morning, I thought it would be nice to show you this remarkably talented woman. One of her cracks today was that Gayle is a Gaelic name, and the Germans don't know how to pronounce it, and it usually comes out 'Geil', which means 'hot' or 'horny', depending upon how you mean it.

She has lived in Germany for 17 years now, and invented 'Dinglisch', a wild mix of US English and Deutsch. So take a look at this wonder-werk, to use Dinglisch, and I think you will get it. And she talks like that in real life, I have heard, btw. It's about how she loves the German language, and especially the diminuitives, and especially the word 'treasure', or better said, 'precious, gives the variations on how that can sound in the development of a relationship, makes fun of the Germans for always complaining when they are abroad that they can't find a decent sort of bread, and then tops it off with an apology song to Germany. That is in English. Mostly. So if you have broadband, or DSL, or whatever the fuck they call it there, meet someone very talented and nice who is a very big success. And I know, it's not really political, but the song is. Enjoy.