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   From: jon.lennart.beck.its.my.name@mail.its.in.danmark   
      
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   > Som members of the xenophobic Danish People's Party have rather weird   
   > names, such as Morten Messerschmidt and Jesper Langballe.   
      
      "Langballe" is funny both in Danish and Norwegian.  In Danish, at least   
   as pronounced, it means "Longbuttock"; in Norwegian, "Longbollock".  But I   
   suppose the name originally had no pejorative meaning.  Then slang-language   
   changed.   
      I don't find "Messerschmidt" weird.  It just means "Knifesmith" in   
   German.   
      
   Rabe.   
      
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