The shame. The shame.
Argh! One of mine, and remembering it is truly making me cringe.
I was in Germany on a business trip a month or so ago. Wicked - 5* hotel suite, awesome food, plentiful alcohol and drugs - fantastic hospitality - generally a great time.
I was talking to the truly lovely group of German people I'd gone out to meet about useless I am at any living languages - I did Latin and Ancient Greek, very useful these days - and they decided to teach me a few phrases. All cool until they got to German for goodbye, Tschuss, which sounds kind of like 'juice'. However, i was a bit worse for wear, due to the hospitality I've mentioned before, and misheard it.
Cue me announcing loudly to a packed table: German for goodbye is JEWS? What a weird coincidence!
Tumbleweed moment. Believe.
(mookroolz, Thu 13 Jan 2005, 16:55, Reply)