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Re: German Hover Tank bumper sticker

From: Henrix <henrix@b...>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 17:02:09 +0200
Subject: Re: German Hover Tank bumper sticker

At 16:26 2002-05-16 +0200, KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:
>Somehow to me Käfer and Kafer are too far apart to associate easily -
>matter of upbringing, really.

If they hadn't spelled it out (well.. without the umlaut) in one of the 
supplements, I wouldn't have guessed either. Prior to that I thought it
was 
kaffer too.

> > Käfer means crabs,
>
>Beetles, actually, but close enough ;-)

Oups! My german isn't that good! And the guy that GM'd is an
entomologist, 
so the error must be mine, sorry ;-)

Anyway, bugs they were.

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