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A "Milchmaedchenrechnung," or milk maid's account, doesn't add up -- it's not enough to pay the bill. As so often in German, the term goes back to a bygone century. One possible source is an 18th century fable entitled, appropriately, "The Milk Maid." Here, a farmer's wife goes to market to sell her milk and, along the way, she starts thinking about how she'll spend the money she expects to earn -- until she gets distracted by her own imagination and spills the milk. So much for the expensive dreams…-
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sallymae_hogsby
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Hopefully she apologized to the cow who went to the effort of making the milk in the first place. How would you feel is your milk was spilled?
- 1 year ago
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sallymae_hogsby:
I like how the complicated equation relates to milk, cows, and milkmaids. Milkmaids must be smart if they can do math like that.
- 1 year ago
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