Ich *zwei* haben.

Photograph and islolate positions from the past ..

However these positions were reached , however 'frozen' in time, in the heat of a 'sporting' contest .. decisions are made. And the result is stamped upon history.

I'd better not call you 'ma belle'. People might think I was talking about hand-cranked telephones, or something.

<Photograph and islolate positions from the past>

That's the idea in a nutshell. Both of the ideas, in fact ...

Krankenwagen = ambulance.>>

Crank is a street name for an illegal drug - (crystallized Methamphetamine, usually comes in powdered form) - in the U.S.

One of *the* most captivating and haunting books I've read in years is 'Tweak', by <Nic Sheff>, who tells his wrenching tale with electrifying honesty and insight...

"Tweak is ... Bukowski and Burroughs, the heart to his dad's head-- AND THE KID CAN WRITE."

"Crack" and "crank" are two entirely different drugs!!!

To the best of my knowledge, "crack-rock" ... (or just plain "crack") ... is a form of cocaine. TTBOMK, "crack" is mostly smoked. "Crank" is a form of SPEED/UPPERS. (amphetamine)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_..., for more information.

crank [krangk]
noun (plural cranks)
1. mechanical device for transmitting motion: a device consisting of an arm or handle that is connected to a shaft at right angles, enabling the transmission of motion to or from the shaft. A crank may be used for changing rotary motion to reciprocating motion or vice versa.

2. eccentric person: somebody regarded as having unusual ideas and opinions (informal insult)

3. grouch: somebody regarded as disagreeable and bad tempered (informal)

4. drugs illegal drug: powdered methamphetamine used as an illegal drug (slang)

verb (past and past participle cranked, present participle crank·ing, 3rd person present singular cranks) 1. transitive and intransitive verb use crank on something: to start, move, or operate something by turning a crank 2. transitive verb form something into crank shape: to form something into the right-angled shape of a crank

adjective
1. eccentric: associated with or done by somebody who has unusual, often strongly held, ideas and opinions (disapproving) 2. from somebody malicious: associated with or done by somebody who is malicious or playing a prank

[ Old English cranc < Germanic, "crooked"]

3. grouch: somebody regarded as disagreeable and bad tempered (informal)

The sort of person who begins a post with the words "How utterly ignorant!", perhaps?

means "they are all in hospital"?>

'Crank' is pretty simple: it's related to 'speed', which used to be a generic term for amphetamines. Both are descriptive of the drug's effects: speeding up the metabolism, cranking up the motor.

Other readings are incidental, though they may ultimately derive from the same source. The German Krank, meaning sick, and the sense of crank/cranky as a bad-tempered child, an obsessive, a middle-aged otaku, etc, are distant connotations at most.

The drug sense is more like the hand-crank used to start a vintage automobile - it does not connote 'crankiness'.

The fact that I am sometimes cranky and that, at one time or another, I've sampled every non-lethal substance in the pharmacopia - okay, slight exaggeration there - is not germane to this discussion.

'Crack' has a more complicated etymology, tangling up the concept of cracking open a glass vial and the Irish (or fake Irish) word 'craic', meaning inebriated good fun.

Drug words don't follow logical rules. For example, there isn't any speed in a speedball, but its popularity hasn't suffered as a result.

The history of drug control in the early 20th century is fascinating. Prohibition and Anslinger in the USA, DORA - Defence of the Realm Act - in Britain.

Most of the early motivation was old-fashioned racism, driven by populist media and politicians. There was a fear that marijuana led to a mixing of races, with terrible consequences for decent white women. A related phobia was a fear of the so-called Yellow Peril, exemplified in London by a Chinese dandy, crook, dope-user and serial seducer named Brilliant Chang.

'Dope Girls' by Marek Kohn is one of the better histories of all this.

I might be more concerned if somebody said "I used to be (future tense) a cop". They might be with the Chronoguard or Time Travel Police.

I am with the <Grampa Police>. It's more funner that way.

His new one is called REAMDE - that's the spelling - and among many other things it shows how great gaming companies like CG can be brought down by malware and ransomware.

There's a lot of dark side out there.

Which of course, among others, is an anagram of dream-e.

"You dream e?", said G cranky.
'Of tea and double-thee'

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