Fun Is....

[PhilDernerJr]

....sitting in a hotel lobby, acting as though you can read the newspaper that is in German, and then baffling people that come up to you when you say you can only speak English.

It's also a sign of extreme boredom, but I entertain myself in strange ways.

Now I wonder if I can find a German phone book somewhere....

[T-Bird76]

So how is this any different from when you look at a English paper? LOLOL ;)

[cancidas]

sounds like something i'd do...

[PhilDernerJr]

Just wanted to follow up and let you folks know that I did, in fact, find a phone book.

The end result:

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/german_phonebook.jpg

(just under 700 pages)

[hiss srq]

I figured out how you do that trick but I have not been able to replicate to date as of yet.

[PhilDernerJr]

The "trick" you see and what I do are very different.

[Mellyrose]

I assure you Ryan - it's not a "trick."

[hiss srq]

Well either way I cannot accomplish the same result but rock on. I did not know T mobile was in Germany though.

[Iberia A340-600]

Well Phil I guess what you say on your myspace about not working out in a long time doesn't prove true. :wink:


Well either way I cannot accomplish the same result but rock on. I did not know T mobile was in Germany though.

I actually think they are a german company.

[nwafan20]

Whoa, someone was a little pissed! Iv'e done that before actually! :)

[Mateo]

The "T" in T-Mobile stands for "Telekom," as in "Deutsche Telekom," the company that runs the service.

Going back to the original genesis of the topic, this has happened to me before. I can read French fairly well, but speak rather poorly. And, more than once, I've been sitting at a coffee shop reading La Presse or Le Journal de Montreal, and someone has come up to me, dispensing with the usual "Bonjour, Hi" code that establishes your language of choice, and started speaking French, only to be met with a puzzled look as I comb through Le Rolodex de la tete to figure out what he or she said.

[Mellyrose]

Whoa, someone was a little pissed! Iv'e done that before actually! :)

Haha...he does this for FUN. I think it's becoming an addiction. Phil will walk into random places of business and tear a phonebook....and walk out.

[njgtr82]

Is this how you do it?
http://www.heavysports.com/emag/Clay_Ed ... books.html (http://www.heavysports.com/emag/Clay_Edgin/phonebooks.html)

[PhilDernerJr]

I do it in one motion as opposed to doing all these "split page" steps. I just lean over and pull.

clay Edgin, that guy on thepage, doesn't even do it that way either. In fact, he rips them in a bunch of other differnet ways which are really freaky.