# I need drinking quotes...stat.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 10, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477 "2007-12-10T15:43:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/1 "2007-12-10T15:43:38Z")
I’ve decided on my husband’s Xmas present.
A custom t-shirt from [Spreadshirt](http://www.spreadshirt.com) .
The front of it will be in German:
**Ich bin hier.**
**Lassen sie die
Partei anfangen**
I am here.
Let the
Party begin. according to altavista. Any corrections are appreciated.
I cannot decide what to put on the back side of the shirt. There is limited space, so really wordy quotes - especially when translated to german - are not going to cut it.
I was thinking of just having it say \*\* Bier Therapie\*\*
Or , because you can rotate the text, having it say something like **If you can read this, buy me a beer and call me a cab.** ( in german, naturally.)
Or, **The More I drink, the funnier you become.**
Any and all suggestions are appreciated.
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/2 "2007-12-10T15:50:29Z")
Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy. ben franklin
now would be a good time for beer. FDR
Beer make life good- Me
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/3 "2007-12-10T15:56:17Z")
I just thought of another one:
**Beer: Created in Egypt, perfected by Germans**
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### Author:  [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/4 "2007-12-10T15:57:05Z")
Likely to lose a great deal when translated out of English, but:
“They who drink beer, think beer.”
[INDENT][INDENT]Washington Irving [/INDENT] [/INDENT]
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/5 "2007-12-10T16:04:14Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest]
I just thought of another one:
**Beer: Created in Egypt, perfected by Germans**
[/QUOTE]
This gets a bit wordy when translated. damn germans.
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### Author:  [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/6 "2007-12-10T16:14:32Z")
There’s a whole bunch of German language quotes related to beer [here](http://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bier).
Stumbled over it while looking for a small German quadrain which tells you which order to drink beer and wine in.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/7 "2007-12-10T16:16:17Z")
There is no such thing as one beer.
Can a bird fly with only one wing?
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/8 "2007-12-10T16:22:56Z")
I received a homemade shirt with half a maple leaf conjoined with half a beer mug. I claimed to be the emblem of the Canadian Beer Drinkers Alliance. I’m quite proud of that one. Maybe you should create the German Ale Swillers Society or the Society for the Libations of Uber Teutonics.
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### Author:  [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/9 "2007-12-10T16:37:24Z")
How about: This T-Shirt is _all_ my wife got me for Christmas (on the front)
On the back… Next year she gets bugger all
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/10 "2007-12-10T16:39:54Z")
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham
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### Author:  [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/11 "2007-12-10T16:42:41Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry]
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham
[/QUOTE]
This, in German, would require a T-shirt the size of a king size duvet cover
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/12 "2007-12-10T17:04:16Z")
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
_The Star-Spangled Banner_ was a drinking song before it was our national anthem.
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### Author:  [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/13 "2007-12-10T17:09:47Z")
You don’t buy beer, you only rent it.
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### Author:  [@ThirdCultureKid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThirdCultureKid)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/14 "2007-12-10T18:07:21Z")
Okay, German native speaker here, just need to clarify.
The quote at the start, is it _meant_ to be a funny/bad translation? Am I just not getting the joke?
As it reads now, it says,
\*\* I am here\*\* (in a slightly stiilted way)
**Let (using the formal imperative you) the**
**Political Party start**
If you want it in correct German, it should read
**"Hier bin ich.
Lass die
Party anfangen!"**
If I’m being thickheaded in not understanding the joke, i sincerely apologize, but I didn’t want him running around with an unintentionally odd/funny translation.
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### Author:  [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/15 "2007-12-10T18:20:52Z")
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than have a frontal lobotomy.
tsfr
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/16 "2007-12-10T20:20:22Z")
[QUOTE=chowder]
This, in German, would require a T-shirt the size of a king size duvet cover
[/QUOTE]
No kidding.
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### Author:  [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/17 "2007-12-10T20:23:29Z")
_The liver is evil. It must be punished._
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/18 "2007-12-10T20:27:30Z")
To paraphrase Homer Simpson: Here’s to beer: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/19 "2007-12-10T20:27:46Z")
[QUOTE=ThirdCultureKid]
Okay, German native speaker here, just need to clarify.
The quote at the start, is it _meant_ to be a funny/bad translation? Am I just not getting the joke?
As it reads now, it says,
\*\* I am here\*\* (in a slightly stiilted way)
**Let (using the formal imperative you) the**
**Political Party start**
If you want it in correct German, it should read
**“Hier bin ich.
Lass die
Party anfangen!”**
If I’m being thickheaded in not understanding the joke, i sincerely apologize, but I didn’t want him running around with an unintentionally odd/funny translation.
[/QUOTE]
On a scale from 1-100 ( one being the lowest to 100 being fluent) regarding German language, I am probably a 35 , depending on who is speaking and if there is alcohol involved. All this from zero German Lessons in my life!
I was also using Altavisa Babel fish translator. \<-----I blame them.
Danke, **ThirdCultureKid**
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### Author:  [@Emilio\_Lizardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emilio_Lizardo)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-drinking-quotes-stat/429477/20 "2007-12-10T20:30:11Z")
“Martinis are like a womans breasts – one is not enough, three are too many.”
----- my wife
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