The weather here is spectacular, the leaves are at the height of fall colors, ...and I have hundreds of pages of engineering texts to read. But before getting to homework, I wanted to post about two pictures that Betsy & I found funny at the Stuttgart Volksfest.
There were several stand at the Volksfest, many selling lederhosen and dinderls. But we also saw that one stand promoting the Bible was next to another promoting condoms. Dispite a nominally large Catholic population in Germany, many don't practice and therefore don't have any issues with the Catholic stance against condom use. we also noticed the Condom stand was much busier than the Bible stand.
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| Bible stand next to the Condom stand |
In German "Lose" means ticket, chance, or prize. But when you think about it in English, buying 4 "lose"s for 1 Euro, this carnival game has remarkable truth in advertising.
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| "4 Lose" for 1 Euro at a carny game |
In addition to enjoying the festival, I found a stand that sold leather goods --and a lot of traditional Lederhosen ("leather pants"). I managed to get my belt repaired, which was the real prize of the day.
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