Sorry, Germany

[Sparkly]

German riot police stand beside a campaign poster against cloning during an anti-U.S. President George W. Bush demonstration in the south-western German city of Mainz February 23, 2005. Police turned the small Rhine River town of Mainz into a fortress in preparation for President Bush's visit Wednesday. In one of Germany's biggest post-war security operations, frogmen searched the Rhine for explosives, 1,300 manhole covers were welded shut and thousands of local residents were displaced. Slogan reads 'You decide - don't give clones a chance.'

REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski

[Ironpost]

1. The Germans are our friends not bushis

[Sparkly]

4. I know, and his visit is disrupting everyplace he goes

turning these towns into "fortresses." He's a disgrace and an embarrassment.

[skids]

2. AIEIEIEIE!

:runs screaming from room: :scared:

[Downtown Hound]

3. I'll add my apology

Believe me, we don't want the son of a bitch here either.

[Swamp Rat]

5. Es tut mir leid.

:(

[PST]

6. they stole O'Reilly's motto!

du entscheidest = you decide

[Dark]

7. HEY! LOOK! They mention DU!

DU Eistermisch...I don't know German. Keep it in English or Spanish please.

[Sparkly]

8. haHA!!! "Ich und Du"

My parents (artsy academic liberals) read me a kids' poetry book written in German when I was little, titled "Ich und Du" -- even though I didn't understand a word of it. They just thought I'd like the music of the sounds, or something. This may explain why I'm screwed up today.

I remember this one especially (more or less):

Ich und du,
Mullers Kuh.
Mullers Esel
Da bist du.

Rough translation (I took German in college, maybe so I could understand the mystery that was "Ich und Du"):

Me and you
Farmer's cow.
Farmer's ass
That is you.

:shrug: Just thought I'd share.

[Niccolo_Macchiavelli]

9. Esel =! Ass / Esel=Burro or donkey

just a translation thing

[Sparkly]

10. Is it not the same?

I thought a donkey was an ass, but maybe "ass" doesn't have the same double-meaning in German as in English?