Comments on: Beyond Familiar Shores 2 – Page 135

By: Sgt. Howard

Sgt. Howard — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:29:49 +0000

It is Saxon- which was a dialect still spoken in England in Shakespeare’s time. Remember that our language sprung from Saxon German and Norman French, and really didn’t become something we could understand until Chaucer’s time or slightly before (Early 14th Century, possibly late 13th). It’s gestation was shortly after the battle of Hastings in 1066.

By: ThreeOneFive

ThreeOneFive — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 03:17:22 +0000

It is actually a Shakeaspeare quote – from The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2.

Is it also a known German saying or phrase?

By: Sgt. Howard

Sgt. Howard — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 05:35:00 +0000

“Hell is empty because all the Devils are here” I believe is the correct translation of that phrase- “Holle leer ist weil alle Teufellen hier ist!”

By: ThreeOneFive

ThreeOneFive — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 02:52:43 +0000

Well, we have rarely been a day late, but we are a heck a lot more than a dollar short.

And, as they say, “everyone is the hero of their own story.” Let me tell you it is pretty icky having to write this from the Gig perspective, but it just made the most sense for the story as things played out.

By: ThreeOneFive

ThreeOneFive — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 02:50:44 +0000

They’re gonna need a hell of a lot more than new pants when it is all said and done!

By: T. Gatto

T. Gatto — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 12:55:22 +0000

You were a day late, but we’re you a dollar short?

So the Reich see themselves as the “Good Guys” and we have seen much that is bad among the heroes.

Who can you trust when the Devil is us?

I’m guessing this is why the D.D.D. went independent.

By: TKG

TKG — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:26:38 +0000

Well now we know what all those old jazz songs about trains coming off the tracks are really about, the gigareich needing new pants!