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   posiputt ÖvÖ (posiputt@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 11:05:22 JST posiputt ÖvÖ

   schnickelfritz

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 11:05:21 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @posiputt Okay...this is wild! My high school chemistry professor used to say-- "Apples to apples, oranges to oranges, bananas to bananas, snodgrasses to snodgrasses, schnickelfritzes to schinekelfritzes, and umbriaughton-hootengales to umbriaughton-hootengales".

     I have no idea what those last three are, and I had assumed he'd made "schnickelfritz" up!

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 12:32:38 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @posiputt Looked it up. It refers to a mischievous child apparently? Anyway the German connection tracks. My teacher was from Indiana, and IIRC there was plenty of German immigration there.

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     posiputt ÖvÖ (posiputt@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 12:32:39 JST posiputt ÖvÖ

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail I know it from Gilmore Girls, and I thought it was made up by the writers, but it seems to be a word used by german-americans in real life!