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Pennyaline
 
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Default Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, maybe.

Only on the Internet.

From a translated-into-English site that specializes in mail order delivery
of traditional German Christmas cookies:

" Poison service
Give pleasure of worldwide poison with A personal greeting card "

Nothing like poison-alized service, eh?


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Katharina Glaser
 
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Default Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, maybe.

Well, "gift" means poison in German. Had they used "present" that wouldn't
have happened. But I always get a chuckle out of those sites, too.
Katharina
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> Only on the Internet.
>
> From a translated-into-English site that specializes in mail order

delivery
> of traditional German Christmas cookies:
>
> " Poison service
> Give pleasure of worldwide poison with A personal greeting card "
>
> Nothing like poison-alized service, eh?
>
>



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paula
 
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Default Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, maybe.

"i always thought that it was the other way around and that poison meant gift.1
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barry
 
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Default Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, maybe.

Actually, it's a clone of a French mail order house selling fish. (Poisson)
"Pennyaline" > wrote in
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> Only on the Internet.
>
> From a translated-into-English site that specializes in mail order

delivery
> of traditional German Christmas cookies:
>
> " Poison service
> Give pleasure of worldwide poison with A personal greeting card "
>
> Nothing like poison-alized service, eh?
>
>



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