N.N the Frenchman is not exactly chopped liver.

Aber der Kollege, der ihn vertrat, der Franzose N.N, gehört ja nun auch nicht zu den Schlechtesten.

Here you go.

@Helmi(U.S.)I really can't help the German-as I've mentioned before- I just have to translate it.....

This is what I wrote:but I thought it sounded too clumsy.... What do you think??:

However, his French colleague, R. C. who stood in for him, isn’t exactly the worst imaginable substitute.

maybe, although I like Helmi's "chopped liver." :-)

maybe, although I like Helmi's "chopped liver." :-)

editing in mid-stream never seems to work, does it?

@dude:re:chopped liver-should have heard me giggle...just wish I could send some of this to the critics!

a giggling hippo? I'd like to hear that. ;-)

@dude: well, actually, I would have to practise first...any suggestions where you find hippo-giggles on the net?

wouldn't Disney have something like that?

@dude: I'LL LET YOU KNOW!!

I can't hardly wait!

LOVE the chopped liver bit!!!! I thought, correct me if I'm wrong, that it was a NYC thing... understandable for most, thanks to film and TV but generally only actually used in NYC???
Like bubbi, schatz, schlepp, zaftig, oy vey, etc...

Helmi on a roll? I prefer Helmi on rye myself.

sorry, I forgot to add my buck 40.
But I still really like But the Frenchman (why we need to point out his nationality is weird) filling in for him is not exactly chopped liver ;) :) :)

# 14 hey dude! but only if it's a kaiser roll @ a real NYC deli - the kaiser rolls back home were ginormous!
sorry about the seemingly random heading - heimi had me cracking up in another thread - SHAZAM!! Heimi's on a roll!

Hey guys, yeah it's Friday and I'm all fired up because I go down to the city to see Mr. Neil Diamond in concert in Madison Square Garden with box seat tickets front and center. How cool is that? :-)))

@Helmi: real cool; my great-grandma's going, too. ;-) You're quite the hep-cat.

Psssst, Max: It's Helmi the homie, not Heimi the housewife...

# 18, yeah dude, Helmi the ol'Kat in the company of contemporaries, imagine that. :-)))

yes, one day I'll be there, too... (weeping)

@Lord Helmchen: I wanna go, I wanna go, I wanna go.
Do you remember the MTV-unplugged session he did about a hundret years ago? Man, that version of "Like a Hurricane" still sends shivers down my spine.