Comments on: Hofbrauhaus Catastrophe

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:32:58 +0000

@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...

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:10:56 +0000

I vote for Sid Morrison to go on Jeopardy!

By: XuYu

XuYu — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:59:01 +0000

F'in tourists.

By: retrokatze

retrokatze — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:03:48 +0000

@ 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?

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:27:16 +0000

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

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:25:05 +0000

@ 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)

By: heather

heather — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:12:47 +0000

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

By: retrokatze

retrokatze — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:22:41 +0000

@ Sid:

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

By: Brian Lutz

Brian Lutz — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:04:29 +0000

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

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:03:39 +0000

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.

By: MoonCake

MoonCake — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:50:17 +0000

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.

By: artbot

artbot — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:13:59 +0000

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

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:03:17 +0000

intact - physically or functionally complete

By: otterly

otterly — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:36:02 +0000

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..

By: biltmore

biltmore — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:34:37 +0000

Haha! Just what I was thinking Brian!

By: marieissah

marieissah — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:01:20 +0000

Oh my!

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:36:55 +0000

Wonder which one was the thumper.

By: Cayfox

Cayfox — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:13:19 +0000

Oh, dear God no!

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:05:46 +0000

Straight out of a Young Frankenstein scene?

By: Brian Lutz

Brian Lutz — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:54:45 +0000

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