If you drink wine instead of beer, your lederhosen will fit better Antoinette!
Ach der lieber, meine damen und herren it's Oktoberfest! Time to get very Bavarian and don the lederhosen, fill the stein, uncork the Spätburgunder, throw the bratwurst on the grill, and revel in the beautiful fall days while singing the, "Hills are alive with the sound of music." You don't have to travel to Munchen to enjoy the festivities, Oktoberfest is a mindset...so be like the Bavarians, and make it about gemutlichkeit, that's good ol' southern hospitality German style. It's a time when Germans of all classes and backgrounds get together under the big tent of friendliness and get betrunken as one! There's a lot we can learn from the Germans... sometimes by patterning their behavior, and other times by avoiding. We'll take German engineering without the blitzkrieg, the 1000 year old breweries without the Reich, and our news unfiltered with puerile rants and memes of selective outrage passing as journalism. Danke nein, P.C. Goebels. Like all of history we should take from the good, and learn from the bad... don't worship the past... be mindful of it's lessons... kind of like statues, hmm? Every civilization in the history of man ultimately failed for a combination of many reasons...but no civilization has ever failed by drinking more wine...therefore it is axiomatic that more wine drinking will ensure America will survive. If only the Romans knew this...Nero wouldn't have been playing all those sad songs on the fiddle. I guess Edward Gibbons got paid by the word... if not he needed me as an editor...6 volumes geesh! Three words, drink more wine! Learn from the Germans, and adopt a new world view, or as they say, weltanschauung...Don't be selective in your outrage be selective in your bottles of wine and recognize different tastes for different people... variety is the spice of life... we don't want only one choice in wine any more than we want groupthink. Auf weidersehen sheep! The Germans also have a good word for those of you who are easily offended and don't feel safe enough behind the internet firewall and mom's basement... innerlichkeit... it's more or less your personal safe space, your inner freedom... think and believe however you want and nobody can change that. Of course every toddler knows this and that "sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never harm you", but sometimes we adults forget... it's fall, the harvest is in, but let's not let the lessons of history die on the vine. Speaking of dying on the vine... do you think the new bumper sticker should be "I'm-with-her-ed" 😉...maybe it's time to play with the grandkids and get sloshed on your favorite grape? Don't confuse hysterical truths with historical truths. Drink up America, happy Oktoberfest, and let's keep this American party going forever! So stand and raise your wine filled stein and sing, "Ein Prosit, ein Prosit Der Gemütlichkeit. OANS! ZWOA! DREI! G'SUFFA!"
A toast, a toast, To cheer and good times.
ONE! TWO! THREE! DRINK UP!
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