Cellar #4

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jdaw1 wrote:I seem to have collected a double magnum of SV00. It fell into the car from my father’s cellar. What should I do with it?
Give it to the Pope on Monday
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Magnum of Offley '63 readied for decanting..

..label affixed - upside down - ready to be put on an optic.. :D
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I'm envious Tom-open house and a mag of the recently acquired OBV63 to boot. Not going to be able to make it up tonight for the festivities (will make it over at some point) but hope all goes well!

You're better rid of Greene King-never had much time for their beers (their IPA is a poor example of the type). Hopefully you can source some decent consistent mircobrews-mine's a pint of mild for what it's worth!
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idj123 wrote:mine's a pint of mild for what it's worth!
Mild?! You drink my mild and I’ll have your ɪᴘᴀ.
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I hope you all have a grand time this weekend! Congratulations, Tom!

Drink one for me. :nirvana:
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Various communications from Cellar #4 suggest that the troops are having a good time 88)
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DRT wrote:Various communications from Cellar #4 suggest that the troops are having a good time 88)
Hmm. Puzzling. If they're capable of communicating, one could make an argument that they aren't having enough of a good time. :wink:
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Hope your all enjoying yourselves.
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mpij wrote:Hope your all enjoying yourselves.
I did. SV00 and O63 and beer: what’s not to like.
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Alles gut!
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The mag of Offley '63 was finished around 10.30 - the double mag of Sv00 that Julian kindly brought was finally drained at 01.10..

Me? Now? - knackered....
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Well done Tom. Very proud, very pleased, very annoyed I wasn't there! Raising a glass to you now.
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I made a little detour today (not by very much, but I thought it was worthwhile) and took these photos.

Original files available should one be required for decorative purposes!

(Those supremely linguistically gifted members of :tpf: will have spotted that the sign says 'Uncle Tom's Hut [or Cabin]'. This is a real stop on the Berlin U-Bahn.)
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Nice one Dan.. :D
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Who is this Toms person? Or perhaps Uncle Toms is a style of architecture? Surely the legendarily fastidious Germans could not have committed an apostrophe crime?
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Glenn E. wrote:Surely the legendarily fastidious Germans could not have committed an apostrophe crime?
Not possible. Germans, like all persons whose first language is not English, are automatically exempt from prosecution.

Before you ask, yes, Americans somehow slipped through that net.
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But in this case, the crime was committed in German. I suppose that does mean that one of our native German speakers will have to prosecute, at least.
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Is apostrophe usage the same in German as it is in English?
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Meistens ja, ich glaube.

I was going to say more, but do you have any idea how hard it is to type in a foreign language on a phone with autocorrect???
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German has four cases, of which genitive, or possession, is one. Combined with the genders of the subjects and objects, the sentences can vary in composition. In my limited knowledge, apostrophes are not used to indicate possession.

The example above does not conform to written German as I remember it, although it's now more than 20 years since I tried to learn any. Making a very poor stab at writing the above, and assuming the guessed genders are accurate: I would expect the above to look something like: die Hütte der/des Onkel Toms.

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I can't believe that Glenn has made this simple schoolboy error! And anyway, what better way to honour the one English speaker amongst us who is exempt from reporting for apostrophe crimes?

Come on everyone, after me..
Der die das, die
Den die das, die
Des der des, der
Dem der dem, den!

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djewesbury wrote:Remember?
No.
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Magnus: Die Hütte des Onkel Toms, yes. It would only be 'der' if Uncle Tom was feminine.
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I presume the abbreviation in this case is some sort of reference to Harriet Beecher Stowe, though I've no idea. There is an Onkel-Tom-Straße directly outside and a large roadside pub near the lake that is the eponymous Hütte (but not the original - see below).

EDIT:
Wikipedia wrote:The area was named after United States author and anti-slavery advocate Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. In 1885 a local landlord named Thomas opened a public house at the southern rim of the Grunewald forest and installed several small huts in his beer garden to shelter his guests from the rain. These huts were referred to as "Tom's Cabins", which reminded many of the famous book. Over the years the estate, the station, even the cinema and the Onkel-Tom-Straße took on the name as well. The pub was finally demolished in 1979.
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Daniel: thanks for clarifying.

A quick Wiki search indicates that the German name of the book is Onkel Toms Hütte. It would seem natural therefore that the station was named after the book - in German.
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