[Edit: I just read the history pages on your Oktoberfest's homepage and...excuse me...but there's nothing(!) about why "Oktoberfest" exists in the first place ;) ]
Well, it says this:
Cincinnati wrote:
the original Oktoberfest was held this very weekend in 1810 as a celebration of the marriage of Prince Ludwig I and Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
Haha, I don't know how accurate or comprehensive that is though. Looks like they haven't updated those pages in a while, the link to Munich doesn't work anymore.
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I'll be there the 23rd, hopefully! It'll be my first one. Quite looking forward to it! :)
Stop by the booth shaped like a pretzel. That was my favorite when I was a kid. My step-dad and I placed in a polka contest there once. Haha, Good times. I never participated in the chicken dance though.
Stop by the booth shaped like a pretzel. That was my favorite when I was a kid. My step-dad and I placed in a polka contest there once. Haha, Good times. I never participated in the chicken dance though.
Theres gonna be POLKA?! And the CHICKEN DANCE?! Sweet mother of god, I'm uber (see what I did there... deutch!) excited to go now! I thought it was just gonna be an excuse for me to over eat and drink too much beer! (Eien bier, bitte! But hold the bratwurst!)
Stop by the booth shaped like a pretzel. That was my favorite when I was a kid. My step-dad and I placed in a polka contest there once. Haha, Good times. I never participated in the chicken dance though.
Theres gonna be POLKA?! And the CHICKEN DANCE?! Sweet mother of god, I'm uber (see what I did there... deutch!) excited to go now! I thought it was just gonna be an excuse for me to over eat and drink too much beer! (Eien bier, bitte! But hold the bratwurst!)
(if you want to do that in the "real Octoberfest" style, you should say "a Mass, bitte", or "No a Mass!" if you already had a beer (in case of pronunciation difficulties, please see: http://www.lowenbraubeer.com/fun_german101.html (Löwenbräu is a horrible beer, by the way)) ;-)
