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Forgive me for digging us deeper in here, but, Señorita 96, are you thinking of a Korinthenkacker?
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Dear Hyla: use a sanitized technical term: scybala.
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scybala
20 seconds of googling didn't leave me feeling like this term was as sanitized as I'd hoped.
As to korinthenkacker, which was not intended quite so scatologically as it was taken - I'll wait a bit for tsuwm to explain (if he would be so kind), as I'm sure he has the source book closer to hand than I (mine are all belowdecks, as we prepare to weigh anchor and shape a course for our new home port).
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Well, Systran's real helpful. It translates Korinthenkacker as Korinthenkacker and kacker as more kacker. I like Ænigma's translation better Korinthenkacker is kosher and kacker is Kaddish
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... der Rosinenscheißer (stickler, literally "someone who shits raisins") der Korinthenkacker
(stickler, literally "someone who craps currants") kleinkariert sein ...
http://members.nbci.com/streetgerman/Beschaeftigung.html [More Results From: members.nbci.com]
Sanitized or not, scybala has got a bit more class.
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der Rosinenscheißer (stickler, literally "someone who shits raisins")
Bridget96, do you see this!?!?!? What is a word for "coincidence" of the weirdest, most unlikely sort?
(Those wishing further explanation make ask; I'll PM with a scatological tale.)
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coincidence" of the weirdest, most unlikely sort
But this is exactly what I meant, and what I took bridget's meaning to be (we have exchanged a few PMs in the past on the wonders of parenting).
For the record, a korinthenkacker is, figuratively, a detail-obsessed person and, literally, a raisin-crapper, but as I understand it, the word is not seen (or heard, I guess) as vulgar by them what use it in their common parlance - any of our German speakers care to weigh in on this one?
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Wow quoth: nursed the plane home over the English Chanel ...Boy, they had some damn big perfume bottles in them thar dayz! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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The only reason one would want to leave the lid off the cistern in the loo is to catch moths. It works really well. The only reason one would want to have a lid on the cistern in the loo is to deposit reading materials. This, also, works very well. It's not called the Throne Room for nuttin' ya know! QED! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Wow quoth: nursed the plane home over the English Chanel ... CapK response : Boy, they had some damn big perfume bottles in them thar dayz! Odd mistake for me to make, CapK, as I do not care for Chanel perfumes ... or the price $$$$$. Sniffing out errors again, are we? Hmmm? wow
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