anybody else sick? I just got sent home for work and I feel like death warmed over.....why would anyone warm death anyway? and who says warmed over about anything?
anyone have any surefire remedies? at this point I'll take anything, as long as it involvs a nap!
No sure fire remedies other than sleep, chicken soup and Nyquil.
However, here is an interesting story about the expression death warmed over from a website called the Dance of Death:
http://www.dodedans.com/Eindex.htm
There's an expression "to look like Death warmed over". The similar expression in Danish is "to look like Death from Lübeck".
I have always wondered what this charming Christmas-city, with its great beer and overly sweet marzipan, had done to deserve such a disparaging sobriquet.
"Death from Lübeck" was a 30 meter painting, showing Death in a long chain-dance with 24 humans - painted life-size - from all classes of society, from pope to infant. Death dances around in the procession, calling people to the dance, but most of the dancers-to-be try to decline. Pictures and text are combined so we have what may be one of the world's first and greatest comic strips.
The painting was destroyed during the 2nd world war and, anyway, it was only a copy since the original medieval painting from 1463 was replaced by a new one in 1701. On the other hand the painter, Bernt Notke, had made 2 versions of the painting and therefore in Tallinn, Estonia, one may still see his original work and read part of the original medieval text. On this site you'll find drawings and photos from both Lübeck and Tallinn.
When the painting was replaced in 1701, the old medieval text was replaced by a totally new one but, fortunately, the vicar wrote down as much of the medieval text as he could read. This site contains both of those texts plus the German and Danish manuscripts that are based upon the painting in Lübeck.
The purpose of this site is to make the original texts with pictures available on the Internet for the first time in 540 years. I have put focus on presenting the primary sources whether they are in Low German, High German or Danish.
I have tried to translate some of the texts, but notice the many similarities between Medieval Low German and Modern English. Words like "to", "do", "he", "help", "mine", "is", "spare" "water" and "god" are the same - and countless words are very similar: scal/shall, mi/me, hadde/had, respijt/respite, grot/great, pin/pain, wat/what, dat/that, olth/old, junck/young, essche/ask, jw/you etc. etc.
best way
The to start is either by reading the historical timeline or to jump directly into the dance by clicking the pictures below:
exactly my thoughts too! I just can't take him seriously after Blackadder! (maybe thats just a very English thing?) 
We just got back from the Jan. 27th Eastern and had a wonderful time with our 2 teenage daughters. Cant wait to get out of this cold weather and lay out on deck 10 in the sun for 15 days. Well, just wanted to say hello to everyone.
