ASCII Art Fart for Sun, Nov 28, '99

In article <81t9v9$o6b$1...@news08.btx.dtag.de>, 
Ulr...@t-online.de (Ool) wrote:

> > > und ich bein unenballen

> 2nd line:  Too obscure for me.  It's possibly supposed to convey "The
>            other leg's got bells on."  But it's not really German, so
>            think along the lines of "The Great Dictator" or Monty Py-
>            thon's lethal joke.

Oh, come on! Look again! Remember this is "cod" or mock German.

"und ich bein unenballen" = "and I am one-balled"
as in the old war-time song #Hitler ... he only had one ball#

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Mark and Gill Tennant <man...@cix.nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Oh, come on! Look again! Remember this is "cod" or mock German.

Yeah, well, OK, knowing real German doesn't help here, I know.

> "und ich bein unenballen" = "and I am one-balled"

Ach so.

Of course I had thought of that interpretation, too, but for the life
of me I couldn't find it in there.  Thank you.

(Misspelling "bin" didn't help.  And I had thought people at least
know "one" is "ein" or "eins" or "einen" in German, so "unen-" passed
me by completely.)

> as in the old war-time song #Hitler ... he only had one ball#

That was a rumor during the War?  I read in Alan Bullock's "Hitler and
Stalin--Parallel Lives" that allegedly Russian pathologists had found
that out after examining his charred remains, which is why we know
about it today.  (But I read that book a long time ago, so maybe I'm
not recalling that part correctly.)


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In article <821p9p$31t$1...@news04.btx.dtag.de>, 
Ulr...@t-online.de (Ool) wrote:

> > as in the old war-time song #Hitler ... he only had one ball#
> 
> That was a rumor during the War?  I read in Alan Bullock's "Hitler and
> Stalin--Parallel Lives" that allegedly Russian pathologists had found
> that out after examining his charred remains, which is why we know
> about it today.  (But I read that book a long time ago, so maybe I'm
> not recalling that part correctly.)

I *assume* it was current *during* the war because of the other three 
references and the fact that we sang it in school only 8-9 years after the 
war ended. For anyone (is there anyone?) who doesn't *know the song it 
goes:-

     #Hitler ... he only had one ball#
     #Goering had two but they were small#
     #Himmler had two quite sim'lar#
     #And poor old Goebbels had no balls at all#
     
Research *may* have shown Hitler to have been so afflicted but I doubt 
*all* of the allegations would have been true.

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Mark and Gill Tennant <man...@cix.nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
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>      #Hitler ... he only had one ball#
>      #Goering had two but they were small#
>      #Himmler had two quite sim'lar#
>      #And poor old Goebbels had no balls at all#

> Research *may* have shown Hitler to have been so afflicted but I doubt
> *all* of the allegations would have been true.

Yeah, especially since Goebbels was the one with the many kids.


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