Extra Credit Questions

[Eva Elisabeth]

(01-30-2016 01:55 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(01-30-2016 09:48 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Kudos, Roger, that is correct. His Serene Highness Otto Eduard Leopold Prince of Bismarck, High Born Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen and Duke of Lauenburg created the first welfare state in the modern world. British PM Benjamin Disraeli said of him: "Be careful of that man—he means every word he says".

Roger, you win the #2 popular German fast food - a fish bun with Bismarck herring, exclusively served by our current chancellor in appropriate location (a beach wicker chair):

Thank you, Eva! Sounds wonderful! And congratulations to you and all of Germany on the victory of Angelique Kerber over world's number one ranked Serena Williams in the Australian Open. It was a great match which I watched this morning.

Thanks, Roger - she actually lived in Kiel (where I live) until recently!

As for Freezing Charlotte (AFAIK these dolls have no special name in German) respectively the namesake - "Il faut suffrir pour être belle"! We say exactly same in German, but obviously there's no likewise English proverb.