And that on a Dult (=fair) Sunday (with shops open from 1 pm). The few bold vendors that had come anyway had to struggle with fierce squalls and later continous rain, which made not only the one with the wooden hut (2nd photo) leave early.
When I took these two photos, it was relatively dry and not that windy…
– Part of a series –
(Again, I’ll try to make this the mockery of a scam in bad German have some sense to you English readers…)
Yes, my dear (hopefully would-be) criminal (or are there really folks falling for this rubbish German?), I can imagine that you laugh at people – “at me is now the laugh to The person” –, but believe me, we are also laughing, and that “I want with you to say is fair.”
You cannot understand me.” Yes, that’s really hard. Und apparently much harder vice versa. And I also cannot understand why you are so cruel to that poor teddy – what has he done to you?
“Sometimes I think, that I not will Have enough time you, to make to all, so that I want.” You got so many “friends” that you can’t keep up telling them all that you want to visit them? And the routing, then, surely is a traveling salesman kind of problem, isn’t it?
“When you are done to give to me, we can in make the next step Our relations.” You mean you’ll be the only one to give, then? I like that. 
But – making a sexual innuendo, hoping you’ll understand it – don’t worry, I’ve got to give you a lot.
“Of course I want the fall, but me not hurry I think that you it want should.” Fall? Yes, I hope the police will bring about your downfall. Or d’you mean bungee jumping? Nah, without me, it’s too exciting. At most, I could be talked into doing a nude tandem jump with you…
“I the youth and already The girl”, “now I feel that I Finished creating the familiy, and I want it with the whole heart.” What, you already got a man and children (an older one and a girl – was that herr teddy?), and want to leave them now? “I hope that it with you alright be is.” No, it not is be! I wouldn’t have thought that of you, it’s getting worse every time!
“The swee?est kisses and the good night.” – pah! –
“Anghel”
(PS: If you, dear reader, happen to own the rights of these pictures the spammers used, just send me a little note and I’ll remove them.)
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See also this German antispam forum here and especially there…
And again the explicit note that this can only be frauds that want to grift pretended travel costs and/or do money-laundering.
Continued: The Seven-Anghela Itch
This is my entry for a German blog parade about e-mail programs – which program you use and why. Sorry that I didn’t translate it yet, does anyone desperately want me to? 
iKA veranstaltet eine Blog-Parade zum Thema Mail-Programme (MUA), auf die ich bei der Prinzzess gestoßen bin.
Ich verwende Thunderbird (gewohnheitsmäßig in der englischen Version; gibt’s auch auf deutsch) – und das schon, wenn ich mich recht erinnere, seit über drei Jahren, als Version 0.7.x aktuell war. Ich hatte damals was Neues gesucht, um vom nicht unproblematischen OjE wegzukommen, und ein paar Programme ausprobiert (ich weiß gar nicht mehr welche sonst noch) und bin dann bei Thunderbird hängengeblieben, weil’s mir am meisten zugesagt hat.
Außerdem, das mal am Rande, benutze ich seitdem 40tude Dialog fürs Usenet, anstatt OjE oder TB für beides (Mail+News) zu verwenden – das Mail-Programm läuft den ganzen Tag, die Newsgroups brauche ich nur vorübergehend, und so ist es wesentlich übersichtlicher mit den ganzen Ordnern (s.u.) und Gruppen.
Thunderbird hat einen lernfähigen Spam-Filter, bei dem (v.a. neuartige oder seltene) Spams zwar anfangs durchrutschen (was auch gut sein kann, denn sonst hätte ich “meine” Anghela wohl nicht bemerkt ), aber mit einem Klick als Spam markiert und entsprechend in den Junk-Ordner verschoben werden, wo sie automatisch nach einer einstellbaren Zeit gelöscht werden (bei mir 10 Tage). Und mit jedem solchen Klick lernt der Filter wieder dazu. Outlook Express hatte damals sowas gar nicht, und ein externes Programm (K9) funktionierte zwar gut, erforderte aber natürlich etwas mehr Arbeit.
The taz quotes our dear minister of the interior, Wolfgang Schäuble, in front of journalists and judges in Karlsruhe (which is the location of the German Constitutional Court):
“Wir hatten den ‚größten Feldherrn aller Zeiten‘, den GröFaZ, und jetzt kommt die größte Verfassungsbeschwerde aller Zeiten.”
(My translation: “We had the ‘greatest commander of all times’, the GröFaZ, and now we get the greatest constitutional complaint of all times.”)
Assuming the quote is correct, we see again how much the constitution and its institutions mean to him…
For other (always) inappropriate Hitler comparisons and quotes, others have been made to leave talkshows and their offices. Wouldn’t be bad here, too, in my opinion.
(via StoiBär (German))
Even though the following is just copied from Wikipedia I wanted to mention it, just like other bloggers (and probably many news sites)… isn’t of no importance, y’see:
Schicksalstag (literally day of fate) is a label often used for 9 November due to the special importance of this day in German history. The term was occasionally used by historians and journalists since shortly after World War II, but its current widespread use started with the events of 1989 when virtually all German media picked up the term.
There are 5 major events in German history that are connected to Schicksalstag:
- 1848: After being arrested in the Vienna revolts, liberal leader Robert Blum is executed. The execution is often seen as a symbolic event for the ultimate failure of the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states.
- 1918: Monarchy in Germany ends when Emperor Wilhelm II is dethroned in the November Revolution. Philipp Scheidemann proclaims the Weimar Republic
- 1923: The Beer Hall Putsch (November 8th and 9th) marks the emergence of the Nazi Party as an important player on Germany‘s political landscape.
- 1938: In the Kristallnacht, synagogues and Jewish property are burned and destroyed on a large scale. For many observers, it is the first hint of Nazi Germany‘s radical antisemitic policies.
- 1989: The fall of the Berlin Wall ends German separation and starts a series of events that ultimately lead to the German reunification.
The establishment of the SS in 1925 is sometimes mentioned as having taken place on the Schicksalstag as well.
And in the German Wikipedia, someone already added an item about this year: Telecommunications data retention. (At least temporarily.)
PS.: Want to join the class-action suit against data retention?
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