Re: About the name Rasputin...


"Paul J Kriha" <paul.nospam.kriha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:45d6be64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Michael Kuettner <miksbg@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:er51uj$nq9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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That was meant as leading to ...

Let's compromise and say KuKuC. ;-)

Nah, what's that?
The "C" is the first "K" in "KuK", and "a" is the "u".

It's the cry of a Bird (Kuckuck) and also the last try of Karl
to keep the Donaumonarchie.

Wasn't it Otto (his son), who was rumored to be a kookoo?

With a mother like Zita, who can blame him ....

(as in the old joke... Otto watching a football finals,
a match between Austrians and Hungarians)

You mean :
"Your highness, today's the match Austria:Hungary !
Yes, but against whom are they playing ?"
?

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No worries about powidla. That was a fair exchange
for a wiener schnitzel.
(or as they call it in some Sydney restaurants, snitchel :-)

Which we stole from the Italians (piccata Milanese) and refined
the recipe.

Really? I didn't know that! Well done that Viennese chefs!

They've also taken Pörkölt and transformed it to Gulasch.

Hmmm, Milano, if I am not mistaken that's in Lombardy, just
the other side of the old imperial border. So, it _was_ stealing.
Are you sure it wasn't just a friendly culinary fussion from
some piccata Veneto?

No. It came into being after the Italian campaigns of Feldmarschall
Radetzky.

(Can you imagine? Some Germans pour gravy over it
instead of lemon juice!!!)

I've seen one trying to do that, yes.
I ate his liver with fava beans and a light white wine.

LOL:-)

If I remember correctly, Hannibal Lecter recommends chianti.

But Hannibal was eating USAn liver, AFAIR.
That would be soaked in Whisky.
For a Schnaps soaked liver, a light white wine works better ;-)

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Not really. The oldest version is the Greek one, which was then
borrowed by Austrian cocks and later by Czech cocks.
Note the sound shift from "e" to "i".

But surely if the calls are traceable to PIEFL they wouldn't
be borrowings, they would be emerging dialects of proto-Fowl.

By golly, you're right !
I'll have to re-write my thesis before applying for the Noble prize.

We'll have to check how Sanskrit cocks crawed, I guess.

Yes, we need to find some Sanskrit children fairytale tablets.

Err, no. That would be secondary sources ! We'll need to find
the original scratchings ;-)

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner





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