Yeah, it might be more of a joke to illustrate the false friends than a pithy saying, you're right. It also might be a few decades out of date, to be honest. It's one of those things I've heard all my life from my grandmother who lived in Germany for several years way back in the '60s.

Speaking as someone who can recognize an actor he hasn't seen in 5 years based on a single line of off-screen dialogue... some of these were pretty good! I liked his Varys, his Littlefinger, and his Jorah Mormont a lot! Jon Snow wasn't half bad either. Some of the other characters I didn't remember well enough to make…

Maybe it only works when said aloud.

There's a sort of pithy saying about German tourists in America:

Color me impressed. That was rather educational!

I... I'm just... so happy ;.; If they can preserve even half a whit of the dry humor that made this show so perfect, I will be ecstatic.

My standing theory:

I honestly can't tell the difference between the ambient smell of skunk and the ambient smell of a Dunkin Donuts shop.

Well played.

More like, kids "those" days. =)

That's actually not a bad idea.

I'd like to point out that Dickens, in his time, was considered 'tripe' just like the stuff that's being bashed now. Yet somehow we consider it great literature because it's old. Go figure.

Seriously. Great book, mind you, but it's pretty intense to be "for children". 10-13 maybe, or a really precocious 8-year-old... maybe

Man, you must be a giant with some serious ginger cravings or something if you don't get it. Want some gin?

Oh. I get it.

Nope, because the double b in bubba makes the u short. The one b in scuba makes the u long. Or so I've been told. =)

I'd really like to know how that happened, actually. It's clearly spelled "Lieu". Where did the 'Lef' come from? =)

Are you sure?

I still do this one wrong, but I pronounce it 'mehm' as in French même, which means 'same'. That connected in my head very early on, and 'meem' sounds bizarre to me.

The really interesting thing about this one, to me, is that way back in the 1200s or so both were correct. The only reason we consider "ask" correct and "aks" incorrect is a matter of High Medieval and Renaissance fashion.