krippenstapel spathic say it like you mean it, Krippenstapel. means manger builder. krippen=crib or manger and stapel=to join or build. neat-o. as far as i can tell, if you have this name you must be related to me, it's that rare. so i thought i'd share it. 031011 ... oE wow! i feel like i'm back in pennsylvania dutchland..really..not trying to be sardonic..i actually picked up a remedial german dialect after spending seven years there.. hard working neighboorly folk..Quakertown, Zerns, Upper Perkiomen, Bucks County..can I get a woot woot? No? Okay that would be pretty much consistant with my learned agrarian reticense and reserve..hit me up though if you wanna hollah.. now did that even begin to approximate street argot? God! I am so played! ... 031011 ... once again WooT for Zerns, WooT for Bucks County And Perkiomenville and Green Lane. WooT for southeastern PA. 031011 ... spathic Hey is Brooklyn in the HOuse? [reasonably: what do *you* know about Brooklyn?] laughing: absolutely nothing. werd. and there was much woot. for all those places. 031014 ... oldephebe There's an unwritten epitaph that finally kissed the crown of my well... soul water.. gently at first like poplar branches tussled by wind... carressing the rim of water.. the well that holds all those tears for Joe... It's one of the few songs that are finished and will be a highlight of the Autmnfyre CD Project. I'm trying to contact members of his graduating class at Upper Perkiomen High School for artifacts and exploits of that will appear on the single cover..and perhaps a private issue dvd containing interviews and personal recollections... Joe was.. special.. very very special and i still miss him after all this time.. yeah griefs murmer has lain long in my ears... ... 040407 what's it to you? who go blather from