The Nuremberg Toy Fair is underway again – only open to the trade. I was recently playing a game of pelmanism (called Memory in German) in which the matching cards were based on word play. Thus Fastmerkel matched Mastferkel.
This Merkel Barbie doll is another Fastmerkel.
Small Nordic country for sale on E-Bay
The starting price is rather high.
(Hat tip to Trevor)
Banksy’s pet shop
Till Hallowe’en, anyway.
(Via Boing Boing)
Eviction of a banker (poem)
Scroll down below picture.
From Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les Murray (Australian.
While I am getting on with the work of which I may have taken on too much, here are some notes and links.
1. The Kirchweih has started
This is appropriate, as today is October 3, a German public holiday – or rather, yesterday was – and apparently that is being merged with the Oktoberfest outside Germany – or so says Wortistik, reporting from Marbella.
Jetzt hätte man den armen Leutchen von der Tourismusbehörde natürlich erklären können, dass in Deutschland der 3. Oktober überhaupt nicht gefeiert wird, sondern wenn überhaupt dann festlich begangen, und das auch nur an einem einzigen Ort, nämlich da, wo gerade des Föderalismus wegen die Bundesratspräsidentschaft liegt und damit auch die Verantwortung zur Ausrichtung des Festakts – aber muss man das wirklich erklären?
Unfortunately I failed to locate the Orgelpark (sorry about that, Trevor), though I walked round the area twice.
2. ‘Chip shop owner battered man’. More here.
3. I am a bit envious of those who go on comedy courses.
Deutsche Telekom is using a video of Paul Potts as a TV advertisement, with the slogan Erleben, was verbindet (literally, Experience what links (people)). The clip is of him
Funny – I didn’t know Deutsche Telekom had anything to do with his win. And it seems weird to use such a well-known event. But I suppose not that many Germans had seen the clip. Still, how can a company base its advertising on something that’s been on YouTube for months?
Madame Tussauds opened in Berlin yesterday.
Scarcely had it opened when a 41-year-old visitor pulled off Hitler’s head.
Hitler returns to Berlin, from The Guardian
