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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (53116)7/26/1999 11:40:00 AM
From: IceShark  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 86076
 
You sound like the Finns. Their excuse is long winters and no sun. What's yours. -g-



To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (53116)7/26/1999 1:05:00 PM
From: John Pitera  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86076
 
Heinz, sounds like the "Goth" lifestyle should be popular there.

We Austrians have a pessimistic outlook on life, the markets and everything. terms
like 'creative destruction' were coined by Austrian economists. there is an unnatural
obsession with death and all things related in Vienna, a city that harbors the biggest
cemetery in the world(Zentralfriedhof). a sense of impending doom pervades
everything here...



To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (53116)7/26/1999 4:43:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86076
 
OT - Interesting about the pessimism of the Austrians, do you know if it also applies to Germans? My husband's mother was from Lauf, and my husband is the most pessimistic person I know, except for his older brother, who is worse. My husband says it's because his grandmother used to threaten him with Der Strewelpeter (sp?) when he was a kid and was misbehaving. (With scissor-hands, and would cut off his thumb if he wasn't good.)