----- Original Message -----
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:20:23 EST
From: B.
To: Rachel
Subject: Ladles & Jelly Spoons
Rachel's Daily Diary -- 01 December 1999 movie Yep, I
watched it, and I did notice the reflection in the mirror, too, LOL
My comment & question is this: Do you have a reference to the REAL poem,
that you have obviously quoted? If so, I sure would appreciate knowing
what they are. My grandfather taught me to read with that poem & it was in
a large book of collections of silly poems for kids when I was 5.
All I remember were twisting references & the first line & the last, which
is
"Makes no difference where you sit, the man in the gallery is sure to
spit"
Any help is appreciated, and just for silly reasons...trying to reference
something that meant a lot to me as a small child learning, and as an
adult teaching ::grin:: (I quote the ladles & jelly spoons & the makes no
difference parts of the poem frequently to my students).
Thanks for anything you can tell me about it
B.
Technology Coordinator/Teacher
----- Original Message -----
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:03:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Rachel
To: B.
Subject: Re: Ladles & Jelly Spoons
B., thanks for writing. Unfortunately, I don't know what "Ladles &
Jelly Spoons" is from, having been taught it by my father when I was
young. I was unable to find its source on the web. I will let you know
if I ever find out.
> All I remember were twisting references & the first line & the last,
which is
> "Makes no difference where you sit, the man in the gallery is sure to
spit"
That's interesting. I learned the whole thing up to the "came and shot
the two dead boys" from my dad, and then years later someone else taught
me "if you don't believe this lie that's true, ask the blind man, he saw
it too." Now you've added another line. Perhaps it will keep growing!
rachel
[Does anyone know the source of this poem?]
----- Original Message -----
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:05:34 -0600
From: johann
To: german genealogy mailing list
Subject: German Surnames
from: German Family Name
Book
There are more than one million family names
in Germany. Here are the 100 most common.
## Name Count
01 Müller 324,101
02 Schmidt 235,760
03 Schneider 142,095
04 Fischer 122,941
05 Meyer 106,352
06 Weber 106,208
07 Wagner 97,201
08 Becker 98,445
09 Schulz 93,344
10 Hoffmann 89,412
11 Schäfer 75,634
12 Koch 75,082
13 Bauer 73,958
14 Richter 72,540
15 Klein 67,924
16 Schröder 63,928
17 Wolf 63,337
18 Neumann 59,445
19 Schwarz 55,086
20 Zimmermann 53,507
21 Krüger 53,365
22 Braun 52,731
23 Hofmann 51,129
24 Schmitz 50,776
25 Hartmann 50,690
26 Lange 50,196
27 Schmitt 49,967
28 Werner 48,792
29 Krause 48,756
30 Meier 46,581
31 Schmid 45,845
32 Lehmann 45,233
33 Schulze 45,074
34 Maier 42,741
35 Köhler 42,575
36 Herrmann 42,178
37 Walter 41,548
38 König 41,408
39 Mayer 40,975
40 Huber 39,419
41 Kaiser 39,284
42 Fuchs 38,997
43 Peters 38,492
44 Möller 37,455
45 Scholz 37,393
46 Lang 36,761
47 Weiß 36,699
48 Jung 35,095
49 Hahn 33,372
50 Vogel 32,679
51 Friedrich 32,528
52 Günther 32,441
53 Keller 32,425
54 Schubert 32,120
55 Berger 31,767
56 Frank 31,626
57 Roth 31,519
58 Beck 30,998
59 Winkler 30,784
60 Lorenz 29,067
61 Baumann 28,630
62 Albrecht 27,472
63 Ludwig 27,085
64 Franke 27,022
65 Simon 26,879
66 Böhm 26,775
67 Schuster 26,423
68 Schumacher 26,271
69 Kraus 26,043
70 Winter 26,036
71 Otto 25,986
72 Krämer 25,449
73 Stein 25,391
74 Vogt 25,328
75 Martin 25,308
76 Jäger 24,862
77 Groß 24,170
78 Sommer 23,929
79 Brandt 23,273
80 Haas 23,137
81 Heinrich 23,030
82 Seidel 22,801
83 Schreiber 22,756
84 Schulte 22,335
85 Graf 22,239
86 Dietrich 21,626
87 Ziegler 21,557
88 Engel 21,457
89 Kühn 21,334
90 Kuhn 21,259
91 Pohl 21,069
92 Horn 20,751
93 Thomas 20,729
94 Busch 20,726
95 Wolff 20,523
96 Sauer 20,313
97 Bergmann 20,190
98 Pfeiffer 20,009
99 Voigt 19,959
100 Ernst 19,926
[The surnames I am researching are all in the
top 30.]
