I am a jelly donut.

[Writer]

Discuss... :evilgrin:

[Arugula Latte]

1. ich bin ein a maple bar ...

[NMMNG]

2. Well, you are soft and squishy

You're covered in powdered sugar and you have a sweet, cherry flavored filling that oozes out when somebody bites into you. :9

[WCGreen]

8. Buffy... You say the sexiest things,,,,,,

[NMMNG]

12. Sexy wasn't the effect I was going for, but ok.

:shrug:

[WCGreen]

46. Think about how sensual that sounds...

You have your mind to much in the real world....

[NMMNG]

47. Not really - my real world is so dull

My mind spends a great deal of time in fantasy land.

[WCGreen]

48. Darlin' my world is a fantasy land....

Full of wild and wonderful adventures...

[NMMNG]

50. I have no doubt of that

I can't imagine what goes on in there.

[WCGreen]

51. Sure you can.....

But then of course, I always have had an active and vivid immagination...

[NMMNG]

52. Ok, I can--but maybe I just don't want to

:scared: ;-) :rofl:


I've always had an active,vivid imagination too. I also have written a number of "specialty" stories.

[WCGreen]

53. really.....

so have I...

[NMMNG]

54. Wow, the similarities just keep piling up

Freaky.

[WCGreen]

55. Yes... very.....

[LostInAnomie]

3. Oh my God! My mind just exploded.

How is a jelly donut typing? Everything I have known about baked goods has been turned on its head. If baked goods can type and form thoughts of their own then what else can? What else do these sentient inanimate objects want from me? Do they mean me harm? If they do where can I escape to? Where ever I go there will always be inanimate objects around waiting for the chance to murder me! No where is save! Maybe even this keyboard wants to kill me!? OH GOD, Take me back to a time when life made sense! HELP! HELP ME! GOD HELP ME!

[Arugula Latte]

4. Let me talk you down.

You've been doing too much of this: :smoke: ?

Remember, you're a living, breathing organism on the planet, and you're safe.

Eat some tortilla chips. There. Thaaaaat's better.

[RevCheesehead]

5. You are a dessert.

I am an appetizer. :9

[In_The_Wind]

9. I'm the entrée ...

[RevCheesehead]

13. Somehow, I thought you'd volunteer!

:7 We'll need to assign the soup and salad too.

Any ideas? :evilgrin:

[In_The_Wind]

19. Well ... if you're lookin' for greenery ...

There's nothing better than WCGreen ...

just sayin'




now for something hot ...
in the soup pot ...

[RevCheesehead]

21. Perfect!!

Lightly tossed, with a hint of raspberry vinagrette.... :9

[RevCheesehead]

23. Something hot in the soup pot:

Probably our dear Kitchen Witch.

And California Peggy can be our wine.

[In_The_Wind]

24. LOL

:rofl:

[hfojvt]

6. I would like Miss Honeychurch's opinion or Call me Wesley's

I have heard it both ways.
Did Kennedy say it wrong or not?

[MissHoneychurch]

7. well he said, he is one of those

decide for yourself :D

[LynzM]

44. Oooh.... YUM!

:bounce: German bakeries are full of all sorts of yumminess!

:hi:

[ashling]

10. I thinkJFK gets a bad rap on that one

I mean does ANYONE know how to say "I am a Berliner"?

Example: there are plenty of sandwich places that have at least one name New Yorker or something like that. What if I went into one of those places and said I am a New Yorker.

:shrug:

[El Fuego]

15. It was like saying "I am a Frankfurter" if it were Frankfurt, Germany

Misplaced article as I understand it.

[Kellanved]

26. Actually more like saying "I'm a Wiener" in Vienna.

Considering that Wiener Sausages are not called "Wiener" in Vienna (Wien). Just like the pastry "Berliner" has a different name in Berlin.

Saying "I'm a Frankfurter" in Vienna, now that would be funny.

:hi:

[jmowreader]

49. I guess "Ich bin Berlin-Mitburger" would work

The object everyone thinks Kennedy called himself is officially known as a Berliner Pfannkuchen--a "Berliner Pancake." The story I read said there was a German artillery unit in a war many years ago whose commander thought his gunners should have a good breakfast, but his gunners couldn't do it because they were always having to jump up from the table to go fire missions--and when you got back from firing a mission your food was always cold. So the commander went to the unit cook (who was from Berlin) and asked him to invent a breakfast food they could take up to the guns. The cook invented a pancake with the topping inside it--a dish we now call the jelly donut.

When the troops ate this thing they liked it and asked him what it was called. "A Berliner pancake!"

Now, when you go to a bakery to buy these, you ask for Pfannkuchen if you're in Berlin and Berliners if you're anywhere BUT Berlin. You could eat a Berliner if you were so inclined, but that's cannibalism (or sexual practices still banned in the State of Georgia) so don't do it.

If Kennedy would have gotten up and said he was a pfannkuchen, you'd have cause to worry.

[BikeWriter]

11. I've heard JFK was correct. Here's one source:

Several years ago when I visited Germany, I found myself having drinks with a German journalist who struck me as fairly intelligent, so I asked her the question. She said that it is certainly not true. President Kennedy said the phrase absolutely correctly, although possibly with a thick American accent. It seems that the German language is simply not that trivial — it has subtleties that very few non-native speakers grasp. She said that if President Kennedy had said "Ich bin Berliner," he would have sounded silly because with his heavy accent he couldn't possibly have come from Berlin. But by saying "Ich bin ein Berliner," he actually said "I am one with the people of Berlin." This is her exact translation as best I can remember it.

I believe, although someone would have to verify it, that President Kennedy actually didn't know German very well, if at all. He had a German journalist translate the phrase for him, and that journalist coached him at length on exactly how to say the phrase.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/jfk_berliner.htm

[chknltl]

39. Pronouncing the word "I" is key to who coached JFK (imo).

German pronunciation of this word sounds close to "eakh". Non-fluent Americans over in Germany, (most of us), commonly mangled that word into "ish" as in wish or "eash" as in leash. There were quite a few other mispronunciations similar to this spoken by us. This we Americans collectively called "GI" German. Americans passed GI German along to their fellow Americans.

If a German were to coach us to utter that famous line, I believe that the word "I" would sound closer to "eakh" than "ish" or "eash". I remember thinking that JFK must have been coached by an American serviceman because of that "sh" sound and if memory serves I think he went with the "ish" version which would further suggest "GI" German influence.

Over the decades, each time I have seen that video of JFK at the then recently constructed Berlin Wall uttering that line, I have always smiled to myself over that little item. I felt then as I do now that he was coached by someone versed in "GI" German, an American serviceman is most likely.

As to the good people of Berlin thinking that JFK was calling himself a jelly doughnut... I'm gonna have to side with your journalist friend on that one and voice my doubts but not for the reasons she gave you. JFK was VERY highly adored by the German people, it is not likely any German mistook his words. Perhaps this is an urban legend after all.

[BikeWriter]

42. I recall the "eakh" pronounciation you mention...

I had only a few weeks of the language in high school, but that is one of the things I recall.

[UrbScotty]

14. That's what happens when you're Ted Kennedy's brother (nt)

[anarch]

16. Ich sollte nicht haben trank den Hustensirup. n/t

[Sanity Claws]

29. Ich sollte nicht den Hustensirup gehabt.

Was ist Hustensirup?

[anarch]

30. meh...I don't speak German either

I was going for "I shouldn't have drank all that cough syrup."

[Sanity Claws]

31. Ach du lieber!

I was puzzled about your grammar; I thought you had high school german and had forgotten the rules on verbs in german. Es macht nichts.
Auf Widersehen!

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

17. I, too, am a jelly donut. But I'm gonna start working out again.

[Kellanved]

18. I suspected as much

Sugar-coated and crispy on the outside, mushy on the inside... :evilgrin:

[asthmaticeog]

22. Mit IODINE!

[Kellanved]

28. und flouride

und folic acid !

[jane_pippin]

20. Aren't we ALL jelly donuts today? n/t

[enigami]

25. "You Woe Me For 1 Jelly Donut Private Pyle"

Now drop and give me twenty

[noonwitch]

27. Mmm, donuts.

Is the jelly purple? If so, keep it far away from the control panel on a nuclear reactor.

[Deja Q]

32. If you're a jelly donut, I'm a raspberry cappuccino.

:D

Just like raspberry oreo pie, I'm off to see the patent clerk... :rofl:

[edbermac]

33. YOU OWE ME FOR ONE JELLY DOUGHNUT!!

You slimy scumbag, get on your face and give me 25!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. Not anymore, you aren't

Because I have eaten you. You were a tasty delight. :9

[Beer Snob-50]

35. sugary on the outside, sweet and gooey on the inside

what all good people should be.

[Deja Q]

36. Wow. Even I couldn't get away with sayin' that!

:rofl:

Of course, everybody knows me for all the wrong reasons... O8) Most of which I brought upon myself, but that's okay too. :7

[Metta]

37. I am the walnut.

:hi:

[chknltl]

41. goo goo ka-chu

oh wait a minute...that was walrus....nevermind.
:P

[Metta]

43. We are the world ....

:) :hi:

[Shakespeare]

38. I am a frankfurter, a hamburger and a donut!

Man, not ONE reflexive Eddie Izzard response/reference yet? I'm the first?? ;-)

[trof]

40. ARE NOT!

[NNadir]

45. I guess somewhere along the line you say "eat me." No?

[NuttyFluffers]

56. And i'm a childhood sandwich. Bite me.

no really! i'm filled with marshmellowy, peanutbuttery goodness! Bite me! Sentient food stuffs unite!
:evilgrin: