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Rez has a thread going about the best back cover in FHB.in light of that, what Great Moments in Building history do you like?. What story do you like the best. Two of them sticks out in my mind. The first is the one where the guy was home from school and helped his neighbor and his neighbors father build a addition. He noticed the old man would get up early every morning and watch the sunrise and start work at a steady pace then he noticed a tatoo the old man had. When the neighbor asked the old man about it he replied “arbeiten mach frei” . I love that story. The other is the one about the old fridge that would groan and moan and they had to take a bag of frozen peas and bang it on the side to get it to start working again. They were gonna buy a new fridge and ended up remodeling the kitchen then the fridge quit groaning ect and they had to quit hitting it with the bag of peas.
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> "arbeiten mach frei"
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I'm not getting it.
I know you're all surprised.
Rich Beckman
*Uh, I know it because it was over the gate at Auschwitz (and several other Nazi death camps, I think)...it means "Work liberates," or "work will make you free." Rudolf Hess had it put there, but I don't know if he originated the quotation.I wonder why he had that on his arm?
*The tattoo wasn't the phrase, it would have been a number. I've met two people who have them. They look like five digit numbers, but they're so poorly done that I can't read them.-- J.S.
*Oh, I get it, that's what I thought it must have meant at first, and then I read it again and read it wrong. Thanks. It was bothering me.
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*There are a lot of holocaust survivors in Australia and playing Bridge as I do and as Bridge is a sedate old people's game (yeah, right) I saw 'the numbers' many times.The (true) story I love is the survivor who used his numbers in the lottery -- and won!
*In the story the old man had a tatoo when he was asked by the young neighbor kid what it meant thats when the old man told him "arbieten mach frei". I think he told him that so when the boy got older he would know what the old man had met. ill do a search of my old FHB tomorrow and let you know what issue its in.
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Rez has a thread going about the best back cover in FHB.in light of that, what Great Moments in Building history do you like?. What story do you like the best. Two of them sticks out in my mind. The first is the one where the guy was home from school and helped his neighbor and his neighbors father build a addition. He noticed the old man would get up early every morning and watch the sunrise and start work at a steady pace then he noticed a tatoo the old man had. When the neighbor asked the old man about it he replied "arbeiten mach frei" . I love that story. The other is the one about the old fridge that would groan and moan and they had to take a bag of frozen peas and bang it on the side to get it to start working again. They were gonna buy a new fridge and ended up remodeling the kitchen then the fridge quit groaning ect and they had to quit hitting it with the bag of peas.