The reason for the season

Check out this awesome crossword puzzle I made.

Completely unrelated: one of the visiting students has, as I discovered from facebook, a blog written in German, his native language, and so of course I started reading it. (It's not procrastination, it's practice.)  The first sentence of the topmost post AOTW is Es ist Samstagabend und ich bin matschbirnig., which I simply cannot help reading as "it is Saturday evening and I am masturbating.".  While probably incorrect, this reading is at least more plausible than one on which the author has turned into a rotten pear.

Comments

[ogged]

I solved that sucker in like, no time.

[Daniel]

I have also solved it, and have proof:
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/6800/solvedjs4.gif

[ben wolfson]

Google confirms my sense that "channukah" is an infrequent spelling, and anyway I wouldn't recognize any solution at all using that font.

[germanidealist]

Du gehst fremd!!!

Matschbirnig:

Birne: pear, but also (colloquial): head

matsch: mud

matschbirnig: feeling like your head is made of mud (or maybe: like there's mud in your head where a brain is supposed to be)

But if it makes you feel better, continue to read it as masturbating.

[ben wolfson]

I figured it was something like that, and the only thing that prevented me from just finding straight up "Matschbirne" in the (online) dictionary I was using was a combination of the way it presents results and my being unobservant.

I still prefer my reading, of course.

[Kara]

And still he yearns to wear his crown of thorns.