Grammer and 1337 lesson from Czech Republic

jutta said...

"Awsome pictures thank you. You were sarcastic about the colloseum were you ? I wasn't sure but Marcel thought so???????? What the heck does 1337 pwened mean?????"

Why so many question marks???????

Some of those sentances aren't even questions!

I don't think anyone got the 1337 thing except maybe Tawnie. That's the idea.

1337 = LEET = elite = the elite of the internet. That's internet speak, usually only used sarcastically, never seriously, since it's usually little 12 year old kids that use it and think they are so amazing.

"pwned" comes from a common typo from "owned" (see you keyboard, you will understand). Owned is internet speak again. Marcels "pwned" Tawnie with his argument winning comment: "yeah, well, I have a car and you don't."

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The Czech Republic is stunning. Any trip to Europe ever should include this place. Forget France and Italy (except San Gimignano). Sure, they're cool and everything, but it's mostly just big cities, expensive museums, smog, and engine noise. The Czech republic is where it's at. Beautiful country side, amazing towns (Just wait until I upload some pics. Can't do it here.), cheap, friendly, quite, and fun.

Seriously, I am in Ceske Krumlov right now, and I can't get over this town. The whole thing is a prefect little medieval town. Hilly, narrow, cobblestone pathways between rows of buildings decorated with brown stained wooden beams. A looping river through the middle of town, bordered by cliff faces with castles on top; amazing views of red roofs and clocktowers; massive labarynths of underground cellers filled with amazing and affordable attractions like cool sculpture displays or torture wax museums. Hell, they even have corn on the cob stands!

Every building here is authenic. The hostel I am staying in is too. The front door is two ancient, heavy, dark-stained oak doors, which leads into an indoor bar with brick walls, lit by lanterns (electric), and a floor made of huge old florboards. The restaurant bult in goes out into the courtyard, which spills out into the streets again through an amazing archway with an even more impressive door. The restaurant's indoor sections have traditional arched brick fireplaces (like pizza ovens) and big sections of the wall have missing plaster where you can see the brick behind.

And things are so cheap here. You know you've found a good hostel when at night it is packed with not only guests, but people from other hostels, and even (this is the big sign of "goodness") locals coming here to drink. A beer costs 23 crowns. That's $1.15 Cdn, and the beers are big. We do the thing where we buy a round for the whole table (ends up costing you like 8 dollars) and then everyone does the same. By the end of the night you've have 6 giant beers, are quite drunk, and it cost about the same as a beer back home!

Beer here is very good, by the way. Yesterday I was in Ceske Budjevice, pronounced Budweis. There is also a town here called Plzen, pronounced Pils. Guess what comes from these two places. I'll give you some hints. I consume lots of them, they are better than the ones the make/sell at home, and they are liquids. First person to post the answers in the comments section gets my packet of airline peanuts from the flight home!

Later.