Hegel Goethe & Tübingen
I was looking up some information on Philosopher's for a comment on the Small Pieces blog, if you have read the book or interested in it, I would recommend checking it out. Anyways, I ran into this page about Hegel and it reminded me of my studies in Tübingen. For those of you who don't know Germans all that well, they put signs on everything, every historic stone, park bench, or street. Often for something rather insignificant. Hegel studied in Tübingen, so the students be smartass in nature decided to honor the philosopher. Specifically in the middle of the Old Town there is a large church, but right across the street is a bar, right over the top of the bar is a window with the sign "Hegel kotzten hier!" or Hegel got sick here (from drinking too much). I have always found it rather humorous, in fact I bought a postcard of it while I was in town and I will have to scan and post it. POSTSCRIPT: Damn, I wrote all this and then remember it was Goethe on the sign not Hegel. It's still a funny sign regardless. Also if you go to the link for Tübingen check out their webcamera, it has a great view of the marketplace.
