[Magdalen] What are we reading

Scott Knitter scottknitter at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 18:11:25 UTC 2015


Then there is the German name for our parish feast of title: Christi
Himmelfahrt...Christ's trip to heaven.
On Mar 24, 2015 11:40 AM, "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 3/24/2015 12:03:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu writes:
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> sequel  to Stephen King's The
> > Shining. It's...wait for it...The  Farting.>>>
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> The Mayo Clinic has bought out most of the independent
> medical facilities in the western portion of Wisconsin, and
> some of the older, more colorful names have disappeared.
> Among them would be the Midelfart, which means something
> like "middle of the trip" in Norwegian.  The latter clinic had
> Anglicized the name some decades ago to "Midelfort"
> but now that regional color is gone.
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> On a related tangent, "ausfahrt" in German means "exit",
> and is frequently seen on the autobahns.
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> David Strang remembering the infamous farting scene from
> Ingamar Berman's "Fanny and Alexander".
>


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