Category Archives: Confessions of a Bad German

Who you callin’ a chicken, bunnypants?

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Sabina Becker

Just so’s you know: in English you call cowards “chicken”, but in German, it’s Angsthase–literally, “scaredy-rabbit”.

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Rosenmontag!

Posted on February 20, 2007 by Sabina Becker

Hanky, Panky–nothing like a Bush Spanky! Seen at the Rose Monday parade in the famed carnival city of Mainz, Germany.

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Germany wants a piece of Rummy

Posted on November 11, 2006 by Sabina Becker

I think I may have to start holding up my German head again. This might just make up for 12 DISASTROUS years of Nazism–and certainly tells me that someone has learned history’s lessons well: Donald Rumsfeld, who quit as US … Continue reading →

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A sad but unsurprising revelation

Posted on August 11, 2006 by Sabina Becker

A great German author, outspokenly anti-Nazi, has something he’s long wanted to get off his chest. Let’s hear him out: Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenther Grass, author of the great anti-Nazi novel The Tin Drum, has admitted serving in the … Continue reading →

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Boy bands suck in any language

Posted on August 4, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Don’t believe me? I have proof. First of all, a very lame German trio singing (???) “Where are you, my sunshine?” With a lisp that makes me cringe. Then, the hilarious rebuttal.

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