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Here's an interesting cover of Richard Wagner's Walküre

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Olaf wrote:
11 Aug 2018, 7:54pm
Here's an interesting cover of Richard Wagner's Walküre

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I thought that was two of PiL's Metal Box for a minute.
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Kory wrote:
28 Aug 2018, 2:51pm
Olaf wrote:
11 Aug 2018, 7:54pm
Here's an interesting cover of Richard Wagner's Walküre

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I thought that was two of PiL's Metal Box for a minute.
The German pressing.
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Olaf wrote:
29 Aug 2018, 6:03pm
Kory wrote:
28 Aug 2018, 2:51pm
Olaf wrote:
11 Aug 2018, 7:54pm
Here's an interesting cover of Richard Wagner's Walküre

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I thought that was two of PiL's Metal Box for a minute.
The German pressing.
I'd like to press that German.
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...because they actually have a noun in their language to describe Ted Cruz:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. ... fengesicht

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"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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Rat Patrol wrote:
27 Sep 2018, 6:48pm
...because they actually have a noun in their language to describe Ted Cruz:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. ... fengesicht
I like that word, though it does sound a bit dated.

Might be a regional thing, too, I think I'd rather use the term Hackfresse.
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"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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Olaf wrote:
13 Oct 2018, 5:37pm
Rat Patrol wrote:
27 Sep 2018, 6:48pm
...because they actually have a noun in their language to describe Ted Cruz:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. ... fengesicht
I like that word, though it does sound a bit dated.

Might be a regional thing, too, I think I'd rather use the term Hackfresse.
Backpfeifengesicht is not going to catch on like schadenfreude did, too hard to pronounce.

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Oct 2018, 6:15pm
Whimsy, with mild cannibalism: https://deadspin.com/german-soccer-play ... 1829975627
If German cannibals have taught me anything over the years, the incident had to have been exceedingly polite. :hmm:

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
24 Oct 2018, 6:15pm
Whimsy, with mild cannibalism: https://deadspin.com/german-soccer-play ... 1829975627
Yeah, the Kreisliga is pretty rough.

Actually that's a local club from this here town.
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https://www.sporcle.com/games/MrWhiplash/stackenblochen

10/20, but the 10 I got I legit figured out. Which is to say that all my guesses were wrong.
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Bet you had no problem figuring out what Erbsenzähler means. ;)
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Olaf wrote:
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Bet you had no problem figuring out what Erbsenzähler means. ;)
Nein!
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