In his special, 1000 Years, 100 Laughs, Dennis Miller had this to say about the day the Berlin Wall came down:
“Having been given the order that he could no longer ‘shoot on sight’, the guard on duty at the last hour of the Berlin Wall’s existence was forced to hear himself called Cocksucker in 100 different languages”
jarbaby
Aackk! I moved to Germany on Reunification Day in 1998. Every f*cking place was closed, everywhere. Had to go to the airport shops to get food for my kids. Silly holiday. Its usually cold and rainy anyway, they should have reunified in August so they could get a decent day off.
yeah…stupid Germans!
I don’t even know why I like them, anyway.
Oh yes, German Reunification Day: October 3, 1990. I remember it well. My ship pulled into Hong Kong that day for five days of liberty.
Five great days, but they didn’t have anything to do with Germany.
Not that the time, anyway, but seven years later Hong Kong itself reunified with the rest of China, so there’s something.
I know a German grad student at Emory University, and she told me after the wall came down distant relatives she’d never even heard of before surprised her family on their doorstep and asked to be taken in.
The East Germans assumed all West Germans were rich, and that it wouldn’t be no thang to just take in and feed and clothe their relatives. Reunification was followed by some hard years and tough wake-up calls for many on both sides of the Wall.
Did anyone ever visit East Germany? I only ever saw West Germany, in 1983.
Actually, that was the first thing I thought when I looked at my calendar this morning… “3 October… that’s significant somehow… oh yes… Tag der Vereinigung!”
I’m probably just Germanicized up the ass from my two Deutsch courses this semester, but lots of EINIGKEIT, RECHT und FREIHEIT to everyone!
Careful, you’re gonna give jarbaby some ideas here.
Don’t worry. It won’t be anything I haven’t already thought of for proper celebration of this most glorious holiday.
Sauerkraut and Dungeon Porn for all my friends!
jarbaby