Comments on: Funny Bones, 1912 (4) http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/12/31/funny-bones-1912-4/ Where our past is never very long ago Fri, 24 May 2013 02:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mark B. http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/12/31/funny-bones-1912-4/comment-page-1/#comment-181443 Mark B. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:41:10 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7553#comment-181443 “Dutch” is a sloppy way of saying “Deutsch”–ask any Pennsylvania Dutchman and he’ll tell you that his ancestry is German.

I heard that old story about the foreign tourist at Niagara Falls on the first day of Prof. Jo Desha Lucas’s Civil Procedure class in my first year of law school. He used it to start a discussion about jurisdiction–but it also started us talking about how old and tired his sense of humor was.

]]> By: Carol http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2011/12/31/funny-bones-1912-4/comment-page-1/#comment-181434 Carol Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:49:45 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7553#comment-181434 The tourist was a German and a Dutchman? Was there no difference in 1912?

I think I’ll start calling my husband “Petsy”.

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