Nice butt

Yesterday in German class we were learning about body parts (don't ask...). We had listed just about all relevant body parts, as well as those I would consider irrelevant such as der Oberschenkel which means thigh, but our teacher hadn't told us the word for butt. So I asked. She gave us three words for butt-- der Hintern, der Po, and der Gesäß --plus different ways they could be used. She said der Po was the most commonly used, although she prefers to use der Hintern. I thought der Po was pretty funny on its own, but her example of using it in a sentence was even better. She told us that you might say "Es ist eine knackige Po!" (and she said it with gusto, believe me.) For some reason she had trouble translating knackige for us, which was unusual because her English is excellent. Eventually she told us that it means "crispy" or "crunchy" or "crackling". WHAT?? What is a "crunchy" butt?? She was insistent on the translation, and only later we discovered that her mammoth English-German dictionary also listed "sexy" as a translation for knackige. So next time you see your loved one, be sure to tell him/her that he/she has a "crackling ass". I tried it out on Kirk last night, but he wasn't sure if he wanted to hear such a thing from me.