att chantal

[The Grock in the Frock]

i can ask for my tipple in most languges.in french aswell very easy je disire a boire une grande whiskey and coke,s'il vous plait.

[lizzie]

Avez vous un cuppa

[Deb P]

I tried an online translation of that next bit of the text, and it came out like this:

who drinks eighty jars of biere as greis only in grube sinks

Hmmmmm!

[Chantal]

Sorry Grock, forgot to tell you that my mother agrees more or less with Vivien's translation. These beer steins tend to use old german and strange sayings so a literal translation will be rubbish. Vivien's translation makes sense.

[Vivien]

I can't promise anything close to an exact translation, but it's roughly 'who drinks beer for 80 years, shake his hand and greet him before he falls to the floor'. Very roughly! As a hint, if a letter looks like a capital B with a tail (a greek beta), that's the german version of a double s, i.e. ss. Confusing, huh!

[deina]

bei froher laume geitrem schmank mog mmiden dir der kugle trank.i think the spellings are right although there kind of in gothic writting on the other side it says auf der alm ist es schon.hope you can help....nos da chantal and diolch yn fawr iawn

I have the same stein.

http://stein-collectors.org/library/Tra ... trans.html

[tigerburnie]

Apparently I'm fluent in talking rubbish.......................................

[oldherbaceous]

So am i Tigerbernie, i've had years of practice.....

Seeing all those distant names from that very old post, brought back a big smile.....miss all those members that used to play a big part on the forum.

And i wasn't going to open that link, just in case...

[Pa Snip]

I couldn't work out the logic of making a 1st post on a topic that has been dead 11years.

I hope deina joins in on more up to date topics

[Ricard with an H]

Not a lot of gardening going on, have some fun.

[Pa Snip]

Not a lot of gardening going on, have some fun.

Crumbs, I never thought of that.