From: et472@ncf.ca   
      
   On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, weary flake wrote:   
      
   > On 2015-03-22 18:19:09 +0000, OFF Fan said:   
   >   
   >> On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:03:13 -0700, weary flake   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2015-03-21 05:17:12 +0000, gnarleston@gmail.com said:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I belive this episode never aired in Germany. Most countries broadcast   
   >>>> in english with local subtitles. In Germany they dub it in German.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Leader in German is "fuhrer"   
   >>>   
   >>> In Germany they don't have baseball because it's   
   >>> illegal to say "third base" because it sounds too   
   >>> much like "third reich". The Abbott and Costello   
   >>> baseball routine has never been heard in Germany:   
   >>> "I Don't Know's on third", sounds too much like   
   >>> an allusion to something that isn't all smiles   
   >>> and sunshine.   
   >>   
   >> But that doesn't make it reich.   
   >   
   > In Germany, Kindergarten students are forbidden to   
   > play "follow the leader" but are taught to instead   
   > say "emulate the equality facilitator"; it's mastery   
   > of such complicated jargon at such an early age   
   > that raises Germans to be such excellent power plant   
   > executives, and a joy to work for, except for the   
   > occasional fat lazy malcontent.   
   >   
   >   
   And that's what Hitler or the nazis (whatever the exact quote) have   
   done to us.   
      
   We can't have that level of pomp and circumstance (which looks like it's   
   out of "Ben Hur", because the nazis ruined it for everyone.   
      
   We can't play "follow the leader" because Hitler was a horrible leader to   
   follow.   
      
    Michael   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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