Hofbrauhaus Catastrophe

1. Brian Lutz
   January 3rd, 2008 at 7:54 pm

   I'll have to save that one for my "FAIL" collection.

2. Alex
   January 3rd, 2008 at 8:05 pm

   Straight out of a Young Frankenstein scene?

3. Cayfox
   January 3rd, 2008 at 8:13 pm

   Oh, dear God no!

4. VonSkippy
   January 3rd, 2008 at 10:36 pm

   Wonder which one was the thumper.

5. marieissah
   January 3rd, 2008 at 11:01 pm

   Oh my!

6. biltmore
   January 3rd, 2008 at 11:34 pm

   Haha! Just what I was thinking Brian!

7. otterly
   January 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 pm

   I blame the girl, notice her beer had such velocity it has spouted up and arched over, so then with her overzealous clink she broke the guys glass while hers is still in-tacked. However this is to her demise as it is his beer that has splattered all over her while her "arch" doesn't manage to reach him..

8. Tim
   January 4th, 2008 at 12:03 am

   intact - physically or functionally complete

9. artbot
   January 4th, 2008 at 2:13 am

   The beer! Won't somebody think of the beer!!!

10. MoonCake
    January 4th, 2008 at 6:50 am

    is she red from embarrassment? or is that just the alcohol?

    best part: the look on the guy's face, because he's utterly disappointed that his beer is everywhere else but inside his mug. sad.

11. Sid Morrison
    January 4th, 2008 at 9:03 am

    Sure I'm a nitpicker, but the word is "Hofbräuhaus", not "Hofbrauhaus". The "ä" and "a" are different letters. If you can't or don't know how to make an umlauted letter, use an "e" after the "a", as in Hofbraeuhaus.

12. Brian Lutz
    January 4th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    Sorry guys, we're going to have to cut you off there... Looks like you're sloshed...

13. retrokatze
    January 4th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    @ Sid:

    Uhm, no, it's Hofbrauhaus.
    It comes from brauen - to brew.

14. heather
    January 4th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    Restaraunt glassware can be hazardous. I hope those guys got a free round or something!

15. Sid Morrison
    January 4th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

    @ retrokatze....
    Not to be persistently contrarian, but check out the site for the *actual* Hofbräuhaus München (Munich Hofbräuhaus):
    http://www.hofbraeuhaus.de/en/index_en.html

    Note:
    1. The presence of the umlaut in the word all over the site. Me thinks they know how to spell it.
    2. In the URL (which doesn't do diacritical characters), they transliterate their "ä" into an "ae" to make it "hofbraeuhaus" as I suggested.

    Oans, zwoa, g'suffa!
    (Bavarian rather than standard German)

16. Sid Morrison
    January 4th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    PS -- I forgot one thing... yes, the word does descend from brauen (to brew), but the noun form for "brew" is "das Bräu"

17. retrokatze
    January 4th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

    @ Sid:
    Ah ja, die Bayern mal wieder (und Hamburg macht's nach... -_-;)

    However, there also exist Hofbrauhäuser and as the Neatorama-Article didn't specify in which Bra/äuhaus this photo was shot, declaring that Brauhaus must always be spellt Bräuhaus would deny the existence of the Hofbrauhäuser and with them their brands of beer (which is a very cruel thing to do) and be pretty misleading to boot, don'tcha think?

18. XuYu
    January 4th, 2008 at 11:59 pm

    F'in tourists.

19. Alex
    January 8th, 2008 at 3:10 am

    I vote for Sid Morrison to go on Jeopardy!

20. Sid Morrison
    January 10th, 2008 at 9:32 am

    @Alex-
    Been there, done that, got my ass kicked. I went up against a guy who was the biggest champion in years and the categories stacked in his favor as well. Thanks for the vote of confidence, though Maybe QI will come to the States someday...

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