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LukeJavan8 #185507 06/28/09 08:45 AM
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There's the nautical word "windjammer", as a sea term an international word.
Here you see the yearly event in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein Germany.

windjammer

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And let us not forget the Katzenjammer Kids comic strip. In German, Katzenjammer 'hangover', literally 'caterwauling'.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
And let us not forget the Katzenjammer Kids comic strip. In German, Katzenjammer 'hangover', literally 'caterwauling'.


Always enjoyed that comic strip, thanks for the memory.


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zmjezhd #185580 07/01/09 09:56 PM
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the Katzenjammer Kids strip is still in syndication today, the oldest such.

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Very funny. And still running? That's strong!

"Rudolph Dirks created The Katzenjammer Kids in 1897 for the American Humorist, the famed Sunday supplement of the New York Journal. Inspired in part by Max Und Moritz" ( I have that huge complete Wilhelm Busch ). Gruesome. Grausam.

Dirks
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Inspired in part by Max Und Moritz" ( I have that huge complete Wilhelm Busch ). Gruesome. Grausam.

I do love Busch and those two little rapscallions of his pen. Another great and scary book is Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter (link).


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zmjezhd #185619 07/02/09 02:30 PM
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Yes, those little stories created for the edification and improvement of children's manners and behavior, while just as well they prepared you for getting hardened and maybe a developped taste for horror stories. Those German "cartoons" are very moralizing. (we were quite fond of them)
Hans Huckebein , der Unglücksrabe

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Not in syndication in our part of the world. At least I am not
aware of it anywhere. Perhaps on line.


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