Re: THE TICK

Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine (dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk) writes:
> In article <56tri2$mc...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>, "Lisa M. Higgs"
> <dc5...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> writes
>>That might be true for the opera, but it is not true for the original
>>post.  The character in the television show "The Tick" is in fact named Die
>>Fliedermaus, and I have seen that spelling on-air (perhaps Americans can't
>>spell in German?).  I assume it is supposed to translate to field mouse or
>>flying mouse 
> 
>   Flying mouse, yes.  A bat is a sorta mousey thing that flies:
>   hence the neatly economical German word for it.
>   Like doodlsack (sp?), a rough-tunes bag,
>   which we call "bagpipes".  

OK, cool. :)  Let it be known that Die Fliedermaus is indeed a big mouse.
Not a bat, a mouse. And he sorta flies. 

"Come on, spine, work with me!"  -- Die Fleidermaus, after "flying" off a
				 building and falling to the ground below

peace out

--
I want to hang from the old creepy. (DA)

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