# "Ve vill use de explosives to make de Oshtriches...shterile!"

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 6, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ve-vill-use-de-explosives-to-make-de-oshtriches-shterile/394749 "2007-03-06T00:24:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ve-vill-use-de-explosives-to-make-de-oshtriches-shterile/394749/1 "2007-03-06T00:24:33Z")

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Well, the big birdies at a German Ostrich farm ain’t gettin’ any.

But there’s somebody to blame.

[http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070305/D8NM2KTO0.html](http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070305/D8NM2KTO0.html)

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> BERLIN (AP) - Three teenagers may be on the hook for a hefty fine if a court decides that their festive firecrackers outside an eastern German farm scared the libido right out of an ostrich named Gustav.

Can you say “frivolous”? :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Crescend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Crescend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crescend)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ve-vill-use-de-explosives-to-make-de-oshtriches-shterile/394749/2 "2007-03-06T00:37:05Z")

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All that ostrich needs is some inspirational [reading material](http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/19) and he’ll be right as rain.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ve-vill-use-de-explosives-to-make-de-oshtriches-shterile/394749/3 "2007-06-04T23:11:51Z")

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The boys beat the rap.  
[http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070604/D8PI3LSO0.html](http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070604/D8PI3LSO0.html)

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> The expert, Christoph Kistner, told the court that he saw no connection between the noise and the lack of offspring. He said that, while ostriches react to noise with stress, that does not affect the production of sperm.

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ve-vill-use-de-explosives-to-make-de-oshtriches-shterile/394749/4 "2007-06-04T23:47:21Z")

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I sink you mean _ze_ explosives…not _de_ explosives.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ve-vill-use-de-explosives-to-make-de-oshtriches-shterile/394749/5 "2007-06-04T23:57:39Z")

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[QUOTE=Beware of Doug]  
I sink you mean _ze_ explosives…not _de_ explosives.  
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Hy say Old Bean!  
Hy deucedly know vot Hy em sayink!