Sunday, June 9, 2013

Let's hope he doesn't say he's a pastry

John F. Kennedy
Cover of John F. Kennedy
President Obama is headed for Berlin.
http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/__pr/P__Wash/2013/06/06-Obama-Berlin.html

The urban legend has it that, when President Kennedy visited Berlin 50 years ago, he wanted to say, "I am a Berliner."  But in his mangled German, influenced by a Boston brigue, it came out, "I am a jelly donut."

http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/jfk_berliner.htm


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