Just a thought...

In German slang, a hangover is "katzenjammer," cats making noise in
the head. Also an old-school comic strip. I think it's time to get
back to work. Oy.

Blessed be,
Baha

BfloPolska wrote:

In German slang, a hangover is "katzenjammer," cats making noise in
the head. Also an old-school comic strip. I think it's time to get
back to work. Oy.

I remember that strip from when I was a kid. And I remember that it
made absolutely no sense!

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In German slang, a hangover is "katzenjammer," cats making noise in
the head. Also an old-school comic strip. I think it's time to get
back to work. Oy.

Blessed be,
Baha

I used to enjoy that comic strip, but I never knew where the word came from.

Joy

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BfloPolska wrote:

In German slang, a hangover is "katzenjammer," cats making noise in
the head. Also an old-school comic strip. I think it's time to get
back to work. Oy.

I remember that strip from when I was a kid. And I remember that it
made absolutely no sense!

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Joyce ^..^

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I may be wrong, but I think that's the strip that had a character for a
while named Repap Nikpan. It was eventually pointed out that this was
'paper napkin' spelled backwards. My brother and I liked that idea and
formed our own Drawkcab Club. He was Nevets and I was Yoj. I still use Yoj
occasionally as an on-line handle.

Joy

BfloPolska wrote:

In German slang, a hangover is "katzenjammer," cats making noise in
the head.

Katzen = cats, right? And I guess "jammer" must mean noise, which has
to be related to the English word "yammer". So where does the "head" part
come in? Isn't "kopf" the German word for head?

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BfloPolska wrote:

In German slang, a hangover is "katzenjammer," cats making noise in
the head. Also an old-school comic strip. I think it's time to get
back to work. Oy.

The comic strip would have been "The Katzenjammer Kids," ja?

Baird

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BfloPolska wrote:

In German slang, a hangover is "katzenjammer," cats making noise in
the head. Also an old-school comic strip. I think it's time to get
back to work. Oy.

The comic strip would have been "The Katzenjammer Kids," ja?

Baird

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You know you're getting old when Muzak plays the Top 40 of your salad
days.

Ja.

Joy

On Jun 24, 4:25*pm, wrote:
BfloPolska wrote:

* In German slang, a hangover is "katzenjammer," cats making noise in
* the head.

Katzen = cats, right? And I guess "jammer" must mean noise, which has
to be related to the English word "yammer". So where does the "head" part
come in? Isn't "kopf" the German word for head?

Indeed it is; I suppose since the bulls-eye of a hangover is the head,
it was natural for the old-time hung-over Bavarians to think of the
cats yammering in the head.

Blessed be,
Baha

On Jun 24, 5:29*pm, Baird Stafford wrote:
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*BfloPolska wrote:
In German slang, a hangover is "katzenjammer," cats making noise in
the head. Also an old-school comic strip. I think it's time to get
back to work. Oy.

The comic strip would have been "The Katzenjammer Kids," ja?

Baird

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You know you're getting old when Muzak plays the Top 40 of your salad days.

Yes, but I never knew it as such until I was in my late 20's. When I
was a kid "The Archies" were trying to hang on to desperate Saturday
morning programming time with something called "Archie's TV Funnies."
All I remember is "Emmy Lou"--as I recall, a younger version of the
neurotic Cathy, but correct me if I'm wrong--and what the program
called "The Captain and the Kids," made out like a twin Dennis the
Menace against Herr Wilson. I learned the real name, and saw some real
strips, in a magazine detailing the history of comics.

Blessed be,
Baha

BfloPolska wrote:

neurotic Cathy, but correct me if I'm wrong--and what the program
called "The Captain and the Kids"

I remember "The Captain and the Kids" - well, I remember the title,
anyway, not much else. Was that an animated cartoon on TV, or a strip
in the newspaper? Was it related to Katzenjammer Kids? I seem to
remember that it was, and so I thought that "katzenjammer" meant
"captain".

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