From: Gerhard Hoffmann on
Michael Robinson wrote:
> "Fred Abse" <excretatauris(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:pan.2010.04.04.19.48.19.316785(a)invalid.invalid...
>> On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:24:58 +0200, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:
>>
>>> I just killed an Infineon BCV62C just to watch it's die.
>> In Reno?

No, here:
<http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=Bollingen&mrt=all&sll=48.458373,9.910263&sspn=0.002803,0.00567&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Bollingen+Dornstadt,+Alb-Donau-Kreis,+Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg&ll=48.454652,9.915848&spn=0.022428,0.045362&t=h&z=15>

70 miles west of Munich.


> I'm stuck in Folsom Prison,
> And time keeps draggin' on,
> But that train keeps a-rollin',
> On down to San Antone.

> But I shot a man in Reno,
> Just to watch him die,

> But those people keep a-movin',


Where does this a-xyzzyin' come from? My official grammar has no place for it.

I have seen/heard it before for example in "The Curse Of Millhaven" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JzqRIdZ8Rk>, ok, on the CD "Murder Ballads", nice, but
not for the faint(a)heart.

I once asked a colleage who spoke (spake upon me?) Queen's English but he couldn't explain it really.

a-wonderin' ,

Gerhard

From: Hal Murray on

>Where does this a-xyzzyin' come from? My official grammar has no place for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xyzzy


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From: Michael Robinson on

"Gerhard Hoffmann" <usenet(a)hoffmann-hochfrequenz.de> wrote in message
news:4bba694a$0$6884$9b4e6d93(a)newsspool2.arcor-online.net...
> Michael Robinson wrote:
>> "Fred Abse" <excretatauris(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:pan.2010.04.04.19.48.19.316785(a)invalid.invalid...
>>> On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:24:58 +0200, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just killed an Infineon BCV62C just to watch it's die.
>>> In Reno?
>
> No, here:
> <http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=Bollingen&mrt=all&sll=48.458373,9.910263&sspn=0.002803,0.00567&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Bollingen+Dornstadt,+Alb-Donau-Kreis,+Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg&ll=48.454652,9.915848&spn=0.022428,0.045362&t=h&z=15>
>
> 70 miles west of Munich.
>
>
>> I'm stuck in Folsom Prison,
>> And time keeps draggin' on,
>> But that train keeps a-rollin',
>> On down to San Antone.
>
> > But I shot a man in Reno,
> > Just to watch him die,
>
> > But those people keep a-movin',
>
>
> Where does this a-xyzzyin' come from? My official grammar has no place for
> it.
>
> I have seen/heard it before for example in "The Curse Of Millhaven" by
> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JzqRIdZ8Rk>, ok, on the CD "Murder
> Ballads", nice, but
> not for the faint(a)heart.
>
> I once asked a colleage who spoke (spake upon me?) Queen's English but he
> couldn't explain it really.
>
> a-wonderin' ,
>
> Gerhard
>
Also sprach Johnny Cash.


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