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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.   
      
   In Scanian, "balle" means "buttock". In other Swedish dialects, it means   
   "testicle" or "penis".   
      
   http://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/balle   
      
   I suppose I find the name Morten Messerschmidt comical because of the German   
   fighter plane of that name, and because there was an English comical cartoon   
   about an inept German fighter pilot called Messy Schmidt.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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