 Planet of the Drop Bears, Curious Stories of the Ridiculous |
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 Oct 7 2005, 04:43 AM
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Uncle Fisty  Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928  |
uhhh.... yeah.... I don't like Romstein either....
translation? my google-fu is lazy tonight. |
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Oct 7 2005, 04:57 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Translation? It is the first two verses of Das Lied der Deutschen (aka Deutschland Uber Alles) with all referances to Germany replaced with "Drop Dears." Drop Bears, Drop Bears above all Above everything in the world When, always, for protection and defense Brothers stand together. From the Maas to the Memel From the Etsch to the Belt, Drop Bears, Drop Bears above all Above all in the world. Drop Bear women, Drop Bear fidelity, Drop Bear wine and Drop Bear song, Shall retain, throughout the world, Their old respected fame, To inspire us to noble deeds For the length of our lives. Drop Bear women, Drop Bear fidelity, Drop Bear wine and Drop Bear song. Shamelessly copied and pasted from http://ingeb.org/Lieder/deutschl.html |
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Oct 7 2005, 05:21 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Funny, I thought that was Istar. :P ;) :D |
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Oct 7 2005, 06:06 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
from here And now, it's 6(,000) feet under, after getting tagged by a 'mountain'. Apparently even the gods believe in Thor shots for the unruely. They just have bigger "shot" Honestly, it's been so long since I've read anything Dragonlance, I wasn't sure myself. But I'll let my reference speak for it's self. Don't listen to Fortune. He's in it with the fraggles and the Oompa Loompas. Next thing ya' know he'll be going after Jray and supporting kage The Usurper. hyzmarca: you worry me, but your cause is just. Carry on. |
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Oct 7 2005, 06:31 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the koalas. We left the camp after we had inoculated the koalas for Polio, and this old muppet came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little furry arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were drop bears... trained cadres. These drop bears who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had koalas , who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those drop bears our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have drop bears who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.
Let us observe a moment of silence for Marlon Brando, may the drop bears be with him. (I do have to remember that quote for the next Horrors tread) |
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Oct 7 2005, 06:46 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
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I move to raise hyzmarca to the rank of elder :notworthy: |
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Oct 7 2005, 08:05 AM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Luckily you chose only the first to verses of our national anthem. Nice job!
Does that mean that german is the language of Drop Bears? |
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Oct 7 2005, 08:18 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
really leaving off the national anthem at women, wine, and song would have been good. I see no reason to continue when you've already hit all the high points.
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Oct 7 2005, 08:28 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 934 Joined: 26-August 05 From: Earth - Europe - AGS - Norddeutscher Bund - Hannover Member No.: 7,624 |
I do not think, that we should limit ourselves to the land between Maas, Memel, Etsch and Belt... o_O
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Oct 7 2005, 08:52 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Of course not, that is just the Drop Bear's ancestral homeland. It has a special place in the Holy Empire. Everyone thinks that they are safe from Drop Bears as long as they stay out of Australia. No one suspects that Drop Bears are really German. |
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Oct 7 2005, 09:27 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
no I'm picturing them hanging out in lederhosen and drinking from a stein. Thanks, hafta find a way to get that image out of my head now.
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Oct 7 2005, 09:56 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 934 Joined: 26-August 05 From: Earth - Europe - AGS - Norddeutscher Bund - Hannover Member No.: 7,624 |
The people you describe are not Germans. They are BAVARIANS. Bavarians are a...very special and unique...kind...of Germans. They don't even speak german. Did anyone realise the familiarity between the words "Bavarian" and "barbarian"? No? Well, I did... ;)
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Oct 7 2005, 10:09 AM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Don't call me "Bavarian" again or i'll unleash bavarian Drop Bears on you! |
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Oct 7 2005, 10:17 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
wow... little sensitive there Grinder?
Don't blame me, I'm just an ignorant American. (probably catch some flak for that too :S ) |
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Oct 7 2005, 10:45 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
I think you might want to check your source, because the publishers and authors seem to think it is Istar. ;) :D |
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Oct 7 2005, 10:52 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
well, you're Wizards.com trumps my 'random google-found site'. I'll change my spelling. And that , boys and girls, is why the IE/Fraggle/OompaLoompa will win in the end, if we don't check out spelling. I'll see if I can find my dead tree reference at home and get back to you Fortune.
Until then - En Garde! |
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Oct 7 2005, 10:55 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
No prob. I really enjoyed the Dragonlance books, and think Raistlin/Fistandantilus is a great character. Not as good as Dalamar mind you, but you can't have everything. :D
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Oct 7 2005, 10:56 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
Thank you! Finally someone that appreciates Dalamar! Now if you share an equal loathing for Tanis, and know what RabbitSlayer is, we can be friends!
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Oct 7 2005, 11:28 AM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Every non-bavarian german is sensitive in that point. It's like calling a Dixie "Yankee" (damn, play too much Deadlands at the moment). Ignorant amricans... yeah, we're used to them. ;) |
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Oct 7 2005, 11:37 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
wow, you actually call people 'yankee'? I'd had an aussie (hehe, Fortune) call me a yank once, but I thought he was being sarcastic. go fig.
anyways, I can understand not wanting to be identified as one of the cracked out hill people. just as long as you don't run around in leathers, we're all good. Wondering how many ethnic/nationalist slang/slur terms we can come up with now still think that mental image of the drop bear with the stein is great though. new meaning to Drop-dead-drunk :wobble: |
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Oct 7 2005, 11:43 AM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
While playing Deadlands we call people Yankees, not in real life. :)
A Bavarian Drop Bear would be something special, i agree. But he would probably be an outsider in the Drop Bear communit/ society. |
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Oct 7 2005, 01:19 PM
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Chicago Survivor Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033 |
But imagine the eucalyptus laced choccolate treats he'd have.
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Oct 7 2005, 01:36 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Nah, bavarians are not into chcoloate (that's Switzerland), but into stuff like "Weisswurst" and "Leberkäse", also drinking beer out of 1-liter-glasses (called "Maß").
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Oct 7 2005, 01:38 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
You're measuring the wrong way round. ~J |
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Oct 7 2005, 02:02 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,548 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
What do you call a sausage made out of a foolish human who loitters too long under your tree? |
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