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| # Posted 2008-06-27 01:46:01 | |
| JanetT: | Cap'n (though I'm not sure I congratulated you earlier). :-) But I am paying attention. |
| # Posted 2008-06-27 02:39:09 | |
| cmpbllv: | Whoo-hoo! Congrats - I didn't realize it was so close...we do all of ours on the first of the month. Interesting how the services differ.
I totally know what you mean about the phone - I used to call my friends multiple times the day after their promotions (usually at 1600ish so we could go drink afterwards) just to see if I could get them to trip up. ;-) Enjoy your railroad tracks! (Not as easy to draw another bar as it is to color in the gold LT bar with a black pen for that first promotion...) |
| # Posted 2008-06-28 06:56:02 | |
| triple-double: | Congrats, Captain! |
| # Posted 2008-06-28 23:59:12 | |
| Kiki: | Thanks!
It's too bad the railroad tracks don't come with an instant upgrade in orienteering skills. I am also still expected to throw some kind of promotion party for myself. I'd rather have one for orienteering types, so maybe one of these summer meets will see me spontaneously buying drinks for everyone. This will have nothing to do with the fact that orienteers are almost certainly a cheaper crowd to buy drinks for than flyers. |
| # Posted 2008-06-30 09:14:27 | |
| cmpbllv: | Oh my, there's a mental picture (flyers)...we actually skipped our last one since we were in grad school and there was no one who understood to be around to notice (or expect the party). I like the O idea much better, myself!
We'll have to toast you in the fall...on a non-official trip section for Team Campbell, since we (meaning cadets and OIC) are not allowed to drink on Directorate of Cadet Activities-sponsored (ie funded) trips...sigh. Tough when all I want after a long run is a beer and a steak. But I think we're bringing in some new blood, so we shouldn't be in charge all the time. I hope! |
| # Posted 2008-07-01 23:43:08 | |
| bubo: | Re: party for these orienteering types - I´ve heard that the beer is cheap in Czech Republic ;-) |
| # Posted 2008-07-02 02:03:17 | |
| Kiki: | The only word I remember from my previous trip to the Czech Republic is "pivo", so it must have left something of an impression! I imagine there will be plenty of celebratory pivo next week... |
| # Posted 2008-07-02 02:08:33 | |
| bubo: | Yeah, 'pivo' was the first (and only?) Czech word I learned ages ago - let´s all hope there will be many reasons to celebrate! |
| # Posted 2008-07-02 02:56:59 | |
| jjcote: | Tiho! Pi svoje pivo!
(Undoubtedly spelled wrong (the first word, anyway), but that's how it sounds.) |
| # Posted 2008-07-04 05:09:25 | |
| cmpbllv: | Even better, pivo works in most Slavic languages - I am certain on Russian, Czech and Serbo-Croatian (or whatever we are calling that now), and possibly Polish as well...all the more reason to try out a few other orienteering venues in your pursuit of the perfect celebratory beverage! |
| # Posted 2008-07-04 14:09:51 | |
| bubo: | Well, in my younger days when I was travelling with a bus-load of other crazy orienteers through Eastern Europe - when this was still behind the Iron Curtain - we very appropriately had a competition going called PIVO CUP. |
| # Posted 2008-07-04 20:03:45 | |
| jjcote: | There are not so many words for beer. Seems like either "beer", "oel", or "pivo" will work in most languages, add in "cerveza" for Spanish (and Latin), and you're in great shape. (Not that there aren't exceptions, but one of those four words will work in an awful lot of places. No guarantees or what will happen if you pick the wrong one, though.) |
| # Posted 2008-07-05 06:10:28 | |
| cmpbllv: | How exactly does one pronouce "oel?" |
| # Posted 2008-07-05 07:39:31 | |
| jjcote: | Well, nobody actually spells it that way. It's "öl" or "øl", depending on which Scandinavian language you're using. And it's a sound we don't really have in English, but it's the vowel in the German word "Köln". Or kind of like the French "deux". Sort of like "erl", but way further forward in your mouth. Make your mouth like you're going to say "oh", but then say "eel". |
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