09 February 2011

Kinder, Küche, Kirche

I can't help but notice that Kleaning isn't on this list.


I'll see you when I see you.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

What about Kuchen?

Rebekah said...

I klean it 5 times a day, and it's still dirty most of the time.

Ewe said...

This is off topic, but I got each of my boys one of those dusters about a year ago. They can not wait until it is cleaning day! They eagerly all get out their dusters and I actually run out of things for them to all dust! It is one of the best 99 cent purchases I ever made-they love those colorful dusters! My boys are almost 7, 5, and 3.

Anonymous said...

No, I mean Kuchen: cake!

Katy said...

Ah, wikipedia: "At the present time it has a derogative connotation describing an antiquated female role model. The phrase is vaguely equivalent to the English Barefoot and pregnant."

Anonymous said...

And yet, from the same Wikipedia article, there is also this,

'In one of his essays, T.S. Eliott reproduces and then comments upon a column in the Evening Standard of May 10, 1939 headed ""Back to the Kitchen" Creed Denounced":

"Miss Bower of the Ministry of Transport, who moved that the association should take steps to obtain the removal of the ban (i.e. against married women Civil Servants) said it was wise to abolish an institution which embodied one of the main tenets of the Nazi creed – the relegation of women to the sphere of the kitchen, the children and the church.

"The report, by its abbreviation, may do less than justice to Miss Bower, but I do not think that I am unfair to the report, in finding the implication that what is Nazi is wrong, and need not be discussed on its own merits. Incidentally, the term ‘relegation of women’ prejudices the issue. Might one suggest that the kitchen, the children and the church could be considered to have a claim upon the attention of married women? or that no normal married woman would prefer to be a wage-earner if she could help it? What is miserable is a system that makes the dual wage necessary."'

lisa said...

Yes, my husband quotes this to me..often. And, might I add, affectionately. :)

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etem said...

weinen, klagen, sorgen, zagen.

lisa said...

Kreuz und Kronen sind verbunden

Anonymous said...

Why do I suddenly feel like I'm a child again, sitting at Opa's elbow. . . in a room full of his North Dakota family. . . . waiting for the punchline of the joke that was told in English. . . and I can tell it's going to be a really good one. . . but's it's all finished up in German. . . and everybody except for me is laughing :(

Untamed Shrew said...

I hear you Anon. Only in my family, the mother tongue was Norwegian.

lisa said...

weinen, klagen, sorgen, zagen.

Weeping, lamenting, worrying, fearing

Aria: Kreuz und Kronen sind verbunden

Cross and crown are bound together

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bl4TYPLP3g

lisa said...

Actually, here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinen,_Klagen,_Sorgen,_Zagen,_BWV_12

Katy said...

Yes, Anon, I saw that, too. But I like the clunky, awkward phrases in Wikipedia articles like "antiquated female role model."

(But I do I like Eliot on our side :)

Rebekah said...

Ah, Anon 1--I see your point now. You are right, it is unsanitary to eat dirty cakes.

Ewe, we actually have a good supply of those around for entertainment purposes also. I'm from a strict rag-and-polish family, though, so I just consider them dust rearrangers.

Katy, :D

Anon 2, you're ripped from the headlines: http://concordiansisters.blogspot.com/2009/08/old-possum-on-cspp.html

etem and lisa, you know I don't speak Finnish OR Bahamian

Anon 3 and Shrew, or German or Norwegian.

lisa said...

There's no such thing as a dirty cake, unless you're referring to the calorie content.

Angela said...

No mention of "Karpool" either, which I truly detest.