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CK, Keiva, I HAVE seen what they did. I was fourteen years old when my People-to-People group was taken to the museum at Dachau. It was more than my poor heart could take and I had to go back to the bus and sit there with my head in my hands, crying, until the rest of the group returned. Please, no more of this here. There is no bus for me to go and wait in here.
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I unreservedly apologise if my poke at the Germans has upset anyone. That was not my intention, give or take the entire German nation. It was not intended to be anti-Semitic (I'm not anti any racial group), and it was not intended to make light of the atrocities that occurred. It was a play on words based on BYB's snipe at the German literal approach to the need for a word. It backfired. Sorry. 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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I just remembered one more meaning for "thimble". When I was a boy, my father fixed up a gym in what had been my grandfather's hay loft. We had a pool table, basketball court (naturally not regulation size) and he put up a pair of trapezes. To make these safe, in addition to splicing loops in the rope ends connected to the roof rafters, the loops were constructed around tear-shaped half-round channels called thimbles that went over the hooks in the rafters, to strenthen the loops of rope. The same thimbles are used on sailing ships where there is a loop of rope subject to heavy loads over long periods.
A difficult thing to describe, but I tried hard to make it clear.
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