"Mark. Gooley" wrote in message ...
Ach, It's Gruesome

Mark., with apologies to Gruess an Aachen


"Gruss an Aachen" may sound funny to anglophones, but it doesn't to
German speakers. In Austria the traditional greeting exchanged by
everyone is "Gruss Gott." I spent three months in Salzburg in 2002
and quickly learned that if you didn't say it in response to the
phrase, you were considered rude and uncouth.

Now if you want a really strange German rose name, there's "Hamburger
Phoenix."

The name celebrates the resurrection of the city of Hamburg from the
ashes of WWII, but it brings to mind images of --

1. minced rara avis

2. An Arizona fast food emporium.


J. Del Col