I am a wombat.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I just had lunch in front of the tv watching the (random) boulevard news…

When I looked up on the screen, there was Prince William (teeny boppers insert screaming here please) god knows where in a camp (to help children or something… I didnt listen much) and he saied:

I Quote: “I am a wombat.” (accompanied by a strange facial expression)

Is anybody from Germany or Austria on this bord who watched Brisant today? I guess I ll need confirmation for this of an other doper… but, hey, I promise I dont lie! (people confirm it - I pay well)

Poor Brits… what they have to face… a 100 hundred year old (I have to admit pretty cool) queen mom who spends heaps and heaps of money, a grumpy queen on herbal anti depressants (not confirmed - my granny read it in some “magazine”) …
and A WOMBAT.

Wombat for president!!!

excuse the randomness
dodgy

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I guess that it’s about as strange as what John F. Kennedy said. At the Berlin wall, JFK was wanting to express solidarity with the citizens of Berlin and said in a speech “Ich ben eine Berliner.” You’ll have to excuse the spelling if it is wrong. But we (meaning Americans) have been told that what he said translates roughly to “I am a doughnut (or pastry of some type).”

I’m just proud to have replied to one of Dodgy’s posts. I feel all giddy.

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JFK was trying to say he was a Berliner. If he’d tried Hamburg or Frankfurt or even, say, Vienna it’d have been funny, at least in mangled German. :slight_smile:

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A wombat eats, roots and leaves.
[sup](Position of comma intentional. “Roots”=fucks)[/sup]

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Great you mentioned JFK… Ich bin ein Berliner… hmm… he is a sausage.

strange how this damn language has all the cities also mean food…

Vienna: either sausage or typical Austrian meat dish
Berlin: sausage
Frankfurt: sausage
it s all sausages… fuckin hell… sausages everywhere…

That s sausage “das ist mir wurst” also means I dont give a damn in German,…
hehe

it s all sausage
dodgy

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Perhaps the good Prince is trying to make it so that the word “Wombat” is as common as “Sausage” is today.

“So, did you get to go to Wombat for Christmas?”
“No, we went to Wombat City.”

“How do you get to Atlanta?”
“It’s just south of Wombat.”

Truly a cunning plan.

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Uh, “goo-goo-ga-joo”?

Yeah, IIRC, a Berliner is a filled pastry. JFK called himself a jelly doughnut. Was still a running gag when I was over there back in '89 (student exchange). I mistakenly introduced myself saying “Ich bin ein Amerikaner.” My host-brother got a big laugh saying back “Ich bin ein Berliner.”

FWIW, the correct grammer is “Ich bin Amerikaner/Berliner.”

…and since we’re discussing grammer, that would mak him a cunning linguist?

[sub]Great, thanks Tygr, now I’ve got a picture of the Royals havin’ SEX. eeeewwww.[/sub]

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Here is the answer

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/william001211.html

Nothing as interesting as trying to start a new catch phrase or anything

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Actually, Ich bin ein berlinner means I am a jelly donut.

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well… I wont quarrel with you…
I donut like to quarrel.
Especially not about donuts.

dodgy :smiley: