The Wife and I have a lot of friends, and they’re all having babies. All of them. So we’ve obviously learned a thing or two about buying baby gifts and shopping for baby showers. (I like to imagine “baby showers” as these David Lynchian nightmares in which absurdly pregnant women are bombarded by steaming-hot infants.) In advance of a particular baby shower in the summer of 2011, we went to a children’s clothing boutique in Portland, Oregon, at the Uptown Shopping Center on West Burnside called Mimi & Marc. There, we found a tiny outfit apparently intended for a newborn:
THE WIFE: “Look how small it is. Definitely for a fresh baby.”
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Oh God, My Wife Is German. 
As opposed to a stale one! LOL
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Exactly! When she said that, I just knew I had to write it down and share it with the world. :)
Is there a similar expression for a brand-new baby in Ugandan?
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haha…no, unfortunately. The Germans are still unbeaten in that area.
By the way, the Ugandan and German flags look very much alike, except our colour sequence is black, yellow, red. I always wonder how that happened…
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They are similar! More stripes on the Ugandan flag, of course, but eerily similar.
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lol! A fresh baby! Awesome!
I need to start listening to my Germany boyfriend a bit more..he does come up with some funny things sometimes! Bunch of weirdos!
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But we love them anyway!
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so true! :-)
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