Fürth Kirchweih

1. I don’t like to be critical all the time, but this seems wrong:

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2. How does this read to someone who knows no German?

bq. Die The Michaelis Kirchweih grew historically and was ordered by the town councillor not to be for the Amusement of the People, like most of the various people celebrations were. The “Mother” of Kirchweih was the secondary oldest Church, named after the contentious Archangel. This somewhat plain, rather place of worship reminding of a Village Church was probably built in the Year 1100.

I suspect MT original, worked over by humans. Here’s the original:

bq. Die Michaelis-Kirchweih ist historisch gewachsen und nicht, wie etwa die verschiedenen Volksfeste, von Stadtoberen zur Volksbelustigung verordnet worden. Die Mutter der Kirchweih ist die zweitälteste Kirche von Fürth, St. Michael, benannt nach dem streitbaren Erzengel. Vermutlich wurde dieses etwas schmucklose, eher an eine Dorfkirche erinnernde Gotteshaus im Jahr 1100 erbaut.

Harriet Miers

President Bush is nominating Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court.

This weblog may be a hoax. But it’s good to know that anonymous blogging is alive and well.

Here too.

For the source, and much more informed comment, see Underneath Their Robes.

bq. The limited gossip that A3G has heard, based on Harriet Miers’s service as White House Counsel, is that she is “a workaholic” who can be “difficult to work for,” due to her “tendency to micromanage.” Well, it now looks like Miers has micromanaged her way to a Supreme Court nomination!

Site statistics

Following Ingmar’s example, here are some site statistics for this site, probably for September 2005, as far as I can judge the referrer’s log.

The top ten key phrases that led people to this site
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dear sir or madam
dear sir
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german-english translation
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online übersetzer

Other key phrases that struck me
twix german
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Not many surprises there.

Visitors came from all over the place, but that’s the thing about the Internet.
What I don’t understand is why the largest number of external links are from pages I don’t want to name here, some of them in Texas – I presume this is because trackback spam has an effect for a few hours until I delete it.

I don’t think I can emulate Ingmar’s note:

bq. 12 Leser online (Der bisherige Rekord waren 239 gleichzeitge Leser am 18.4.2005 um 11:14 Uhr.)

But then I’ve never got married and announced it in my blog.

Oh, and here are the internal searches people have been making today, with or without success:

einklagen, OGH, haltbar, urteil, BGH, ZR, klagend, wirtschaftsprüfer, stattgegeben