Re: Laughing interview

The first time I turned on a TV in Germany, Hoss Cartwright came into the
room, looked at this brothers and asked "Auf was geht?" (loosely
translated as What's up?)




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On Feb 28 2006 12:19 PM, Susan wrote:

I have no idea what they were saying, but that got me laughing.

That reminds me of something that, for reasons we still can't quite put
our fingers on, cracked up my kids and I no end when we were in Tuscany
last June. We rented a farmhouse apartment (what the Italian government
calls an "Agraturismo") for a week, which came with all of the comforts of
home...including satellite T.V. One night, after a long day of touring
the countryside of Chianti, we decided to veg out in front of some
international television. One of the stations we picked up was German,
and just as we tuned into it a commercial began to play. It was a basic
cartoon animation that featured a Bullwinkle-looking moose laying on his
back in a wading pool, waving a beer bottle in one "hand" and singing some
song in very drunken-sounding German. None of us had the first clue what
he was singing, but something about the combination of the visual and the
singing voice had us rolling on the floor.

I guess there are two things you can't go wrong with in advertising:

1) Chimpanzees dressed in business suits in an office setting.

2) A drunken, singing, animated German moose.


- "Now you listen to me. If anything goes wrong, anything at all....your
fault, my fault, nobody's fault...no matter what else happens, I'm gonna'
blow your head off."

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