> There was and continues to be a large German population in > Berlin/Kitchener. I had many friends whose families originated in > Schwabia. "Economical" is a very polite description of them. <g> And > yes, more "economical" than the Scots, I'd say...
I feel compelled to defend the ethic honor of Scotland...my father paid $260,000 cash for his house in 1976, when that was still rather a lot of money for a house, but he used to dry his hands after washing them on one square of paper toweling. After drying his hands, he would lay the square of paper toweling out on the counter to dry, so it could be re-used. His reasoning was that his hands were _clean_ when he dried them, so the paper towel hadn't been dirtied and there was no reason not to use it again. When his brother died, Dad had been retired for years, and no longer owned a pair of dress shoes (he preferred sneakers). So rather than buy a pair of dress shoes just for the funeral, he took a Sharpie laundry marker and laboriously colored a pair of his sneakers black. What say ye, do we gi' the Schwabians a run fa' their money? <g> --Mike
