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RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 12-03-2013 07:36 AM
(According to the rules you once framed, I also forgot the teasing, didn't I? Well, I think I need some coaching for that.)
Hint #2: It was something that is usually anyway needed for a baptizing ceremony.
RE: Stump the German - Wild Bill - 12-03-2013 07:49 AM
Weihwasser
RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 12-03-2013 08:03 AM
Very close, holy water is correct, but of very special origin. So, where from? (Would that be a German point if you nailed it?)
RE: Stump the German - J. Beckert - 12-03-2013 08:40 AM
(12-03-2013 07:36 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: (According to the rules you once framed, I also forgot the teasing, didn't I? Well, I think I need some coaching for that.)
(Pssst....Eva! Try this -"Looks like the spaetzle brained Non Germans are having some trouble. That can only mean it's time for Hint #....)
(Richter's German. If he's right - take the point. Germans can't stump other Germans.)
RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 12-03-2013 08:43 AM
Mr. Richter has not entirely solved it yet. The main point is still missing. As for the teasig - I don't want to get the sack...
Hint #3: Mary herself had received the holy water from somewhere on the other side of the Atlantic.
RE: Stump the German - L Verge - 12-03-2013 09:28 AM
The River Jordan?
RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 12-03-2013 10:13 AM
Brilliant, Laurie, the gift was a bottle of Jordan water! Mary mentioned it in a letter she wrote to her grandnephew Edward Lewis Baker Jr. from Pau on June 22, 1870.
So the score is 1:1.
RE: Stump the German - Matt Macoubrie - 12-03-2013 05:25 PM
I feel as if it is a Zimmermann note ordeal going on . . . someone is slipping the "cool" people all the answers!!!!!
RE: Stump the German - L Verge - 12-03-2013 07:17 PM
I'm not sure how to take that, Matt, so I am not going to make a reply...
RE: Stump the German - Gene C - 12-03-2013 11:12 PM
, no one slipped me any answersBy stating your not going to make a reply, aren't you making a reply
RE: Stump the German - L Verge - 12-04-2013 09:14 AM
Gene - You definitely got my point!
BTW: I may have dreamed this, but for some reason I think I read that the new Prince George was baptized with water from the River Jordan???
RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 12-07-2013 07:35 AM
What are you going to do on June 26, 2014, at noon EST? Watching the soccer world cup game, I hope! Even if the US team stumps the Germans and wins (like they beat us 4:3 last June, our B-team more precisely) I'll call it partly a German victory due to the great coach you have (we miss him). 2013 has been the most successful year in US soccer history, hasn't it? I would consider this a great deal "Klinsi's" achievement. (Forgive me this comment, like most Germans I'm not patriotic unnless it comes to soccer!)
PS: I've often unsuccessfully attempted to understand baseball rules, I admire anyone who does. With soccer, it's quite simple: get the round thing in the square thing...
RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 01-16-2014 08:36 AM
1.) Which CW general named his eldest son "Lincoln"?
2.) There was another general who named his son "Lincoln", but he denied an offer to take over a command. You will stump the German if you name him!
Note: According to my source, these were the only ones. I will double-check your guesses, but this was even for one of the sought-after quite difficult. Thus for replies goes AFAIK (and if you are very sure about another one I'll be willing to believe you).
RE: Stump the German - Eva Elisabeth - 01-16-2014 09:47 AM
Hint#1: Both were on the Union side.
Hint#2: The first one also wrote a Lincoln biography, and this was the second one:
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RE: Stump the German - Gene C - 01-16-2014 10:54 AM
I'm stuck.
I can't even figure out what AFAIK is
As Far As I Know it stands for American Federation of Alternative Information (Klassified)