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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