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Subject: Re: "the V stood for Vengeance" -- in German?
From: "Jacob W. Haller" <spog at jwgh.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:07:05 -0500

Lee Merkel <leemerkel at peoplepc.com> wrote:

I'm watching a History Channel thing about the secret mission that killed Joe Kennedy Jr. in World War II, and the narrator mentions Kennedy's plane (a B-24) was targetting a site where the Germans were making their new "V weapons" -- the V1 & V2. The narrator says:

"The V stood for Vengeance."

Yeah, those cool Deutschlanders.

But a German V is pronounced like an English F, and the German word for vengeance isn't "vengeance." It's die Rache, according to my German-English dictionary.

Some excerpts from the great Sir Arthur Conan O'Brien's Inside Scarlet It's Too Dark To Study:

In the year of 1998 I abandoned my degree of Bachelor of Mathematics at Miskatonic University, and proceeded to Manhattan to go through that Spanking Machine known as an Internet Startup. Having spent as much time there as I really desired, I tendered my resignation after several years and returned to the State of Rhode Island to finish my studies and regroup. My stock options having proven to be a less than satisfactory source of income, and my employment options appearing less than stellar, I made up my mind to leave my current apartment, and to take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive domicile.

[. . . . . . . .]

Young McIrvin looked rather strangely at me over his bottle of root beer. "You don't know Mr. Parry yet," he said; "perhaps you would not care for him as a constant companion."

"Why, what is there against him?"

"Oh, I don't say there's anything against him; just that he is a little odd in some of his ideas on the subject of Typography."

[. . . . . . . .]

"The game is a foot, Watson!" Kibo said to me, showing me the pictures he had taken at Toys R Us earlier that day. "Astounding, Kibo!" I replied.

[. . . . . . . .]

Across this bare space there was printed in blood-red MS Comic Sans a single word --

DOIDY.

"What do you make of that?" cried the Kibologist, with the air of a showman showily exhibiting his show.

"Well, I could make a hat, or a paper airplane, or a --" I began. Kibo silenced me with a single movement. Following his gaze, I perceived that we were not alone.

[. . . . . . . .]

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

"I'll take his wallet," Teo said.

-jwgh 

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