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Is this where the expression "you've got a corncob up your _ss" comes from?
Sorry, I couldn't resist............. : )
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Subject: Re: [BANAT-L] Traditions
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:29:45 -0600
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Diana;
..In your case it was a knife, for your satisfaction, in return he gave
you a penny. -- that goes for many others, even a little button will do it.
...In our modern washrooms (bathroom, toilet) we have everything organized,
i.e. the towels, each person has a place for their own toothbrush,
toothpaste. The 2-ply Royal Toilet Tissue Paper always on hand. When you're
finished you always use the bazooka and spray the washroom full of those
critical chemicals, if you decide to stay longer, you have to use a gas mask
so you don't choke from all those chemicals in the air.
Well let me tell you,- back in the good old days in Banat, we never had
those problems.
This was in the villages. We had an air-conditioned toilet, we called it an
out-house.
There was no room for toothbrushes. We had no 2-ply toilet tissue paper. We
never had any "Haemorrhoids," because instead of 2-ply Royal Tissue Paper,
we used corn-cobs instead.
When the women finished wearing the newspaper in their babushka, these same
newspapers were put in our air-conditioned toilets to be used. Such was a
luxury tread to us.
Alex.
"REMEMBER WHERE YOU CAME FROM.'
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From: "Diana" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 7:51 PM
Subject: [BANAT-L] Traditions
> Thank you Alex and Rosina. You gave more information than I hoped for.
>
> It was interesting about the hand shake instead of kissing. I think
> arranged marriages were a good idea. Your parents matched you up with
> someone they knew with the same background, culture, economic status etc.,
> and it is true that you grow to love each other as you share experiences.
> Children marry today for all the wrong reasons (in my opinion). My
husband,
> of 46 years, and I knew each other only 4 months before we married. It
was
> almost like an arranged marriage. We did grow to love each other other
the
> years. :-)
>
> Thank you for the information about languages.
>
> Alex wrote:
> > Babushka is not a German or
> >Schwobisches word, but I noticed it's spelled as if it were German.
>
> Now I'm wondering why my mother, who was very German and not from the
Banat,
> used the word Babushka as she did. I can trace her ancestry back 5-6
> generations in Germany. It's my father, born in the Banat, that I can't
get
> beyond his parents.
>
> I did notice that the head coverings stood out very stiff and thought they
> were starched. I didn't know they were stuffed with paper.
>
> Will you tell us more traditions of the Banat. I once gave my father a
> fishing knife engraved with his name. He sent back a note with a penny
and
> said it was a tradition to give a penny to the person who gives you a
knife
> so that the relationship is not severed. Do any of you recall that
> tradition?
>
> Diana and Ginger, puppy in charge
>
> Researching surnames GASKO/GASZKO and WUNSCHEL
>
>
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