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Links and Video of the Week (2008/39)

Everything’s German today – except the video, and that’s worth watching!

Der Shakespeare-Sketch von Hugh Laurie und Rowan Atkinson:

Nicht vergessen: info@bulk-mail.org nicht veröffentlichen! ;)

Neck-and-neck race?

Rennbahn

Can you call a race whose main objective is to drop back as little as possible still a neck-and-neck race? Wouldn’t butt-to-butt race be more appropriate? ;)

For this is the case when you look at member numbers of the political parties in Germany – the SPD dropped from its top of one million in 1976 to 531,737 at the end of May and 529,994 at the end of June, the CDU from 750,000 after the wall was torn down to 531,299 at the end of May, and they now gloat about having more members than the SPD (and want to publish exact figures on Monday). Update: It’s 530,755.

And some news sites call that a neck-and-neck race…