This sounds like the bit in The History Boys, where they act out a scene in a French brothel where all the clients make particular use of the subjunctive.
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if you had a time machine..
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In which case your thread now makes perfect sense.Originally posted by chef View PostNope, an early thirties male that is studying german fulltime in between contrats and in the process of learning Conjunctive II grammar and sentence structure, i.e
IF blah blah blah I would..
Wenn ich ein Million Euros hätte, würde ich...
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I'd go back to 1200 AD and open a savings account, with a deposit of a groat, in the Medici Bank.Originally posted by chef View PostWhat would you do?
A shameless plee in helping me complete my deutsch homework..
Why didn't one of my stupid sheep-stealing ancestors think of that - It would be worth millions today!
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Als das kind kind warOriginally posted by chef View PostNope, an early thirties male that is studying german fulltime in between contrats and in the process of learning Conjunctive II grammar and sentence structure, i.e
IF blah blah blah I would..
Wenn ich ein Million Euros hätte, würde ich...
Ging es mit hangenden Armen
Then stuff about flowing into rivers and seas....
Wish I could remember it, was in Wender's film 'Himmel uber Berlin' - great movie.
Waht's the plural for 'bus'? It's not 'busen' - that caught me out....Comment
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It opened it's doors for the first time 197 years later.Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostI'd go back to 1200 AD and open a savings account, with a deposit of a groat, in the Medici Bank.
Why didn't one of my stupid sheep-stealing ancestors think of that - It would be worth millions today!
Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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And went bust 97 years later.Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostI'd go back to 1200 AD and open a savings account, with a deposit of a groat, in the Medici Bank.
Why didn't one of my stupid sheep-stealing ancestors think of that - It would be worth millions today!
Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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That would have been a Guelphy rate of interest.Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostI'd go back to 1200 AD and open a savings account, with a deposit of a groat, in the Medici Bank.
Why didn't one of my stupid sheep-stealing ancestors think of that - It would be worth millions today!



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If I was Gary Kildall I wouldn't have sent my wife to meetings with IBM*
* Not sure how much of this story is bollox.
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BusseOriginally posted by stek View PostWaht's the plural for 'bus'? It's not 'busen' - that caught me out....
As for depositing some small amount of currency in a bank a few hundred years ago...
Nah, either the banks or the government would have found a way of declaring it a dormant account and whipping the money off you.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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