2019 - Day 135/230 - Wednesday...Rathskeller...

I find it pretty interesting that many people can recognize my ass while viewing it in a totally out of context kind of offering. But I am putting the horse before the cart here. Yesterday, our speaker at our opening session was a very talented artist and inspirer, Phil Hansen, known as "the artist for the people." I am not going to bore you with his background, but I can guarantee you that it is not boring, and if you look him up, he has a really interesting story. Very cool. Bottom line, the National Association of REALTORS® commissioned him to produce a work of art. What you see here is kind of like a work of pointillism, but instead of dots (part of his story), the details are done with words or stories. In this case, the work is done with the names of ten thousand Major Investors in RPAC, the REALTOR® Political Action Committee. Very cool. Which brings us full circle to people recognizing my ass for my asses sake alone. That's me in the picture, looking for my name in the poster, and yes, I found it. You're welcome!

Rathskeller -- Noun. a usually basement tavern or restaurant. "Troy's Germania Hall remains open. The club serves dinner every Friday night in its rathskeller." Jeff Wilkin, The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, New York), August 10, 2014

Did You Know? Rathskeller is a product of Germany, deriving from two German nouns: Rat (also spelled Rath in early Modern German), which means "council," and Keller, which means "cellar". (Nouns in German are always capitalized.) The eytmology reflects the fact that many early rathskellers were located in the basement of "council houses," which were equivalent to town halls. (The oldest rathskeller found in Germany today is said to date from the first half of the 13th century.) The earliest known use of rathskeller in English dates from 1766, but the word wasn't commonly used until the 1900s. Although the German word is now spelled Ratsleller, English writers have always preferred the spelling with the h - most likely to avoid any association with the word rat.