You're welcome and thanks! :) I agree with you, but apparently the thought of merry KGB agents singing this song was a tad too affective a mental image for me. Also in this context a quick association to the Salome asking for John the Baptists head theme occurred to me. I believe you know why. ;)
That was the mental image I was going for. There are several times I'm sure Mischa would've loved to have received the Major's head on a platter. Unfortunately for him, he was always the one getting his ass handed to him.
Yeah, Germany loves its stuffed hunting trophies ... at a restaurant my family used to visit there is a dead boar on its hind legs dressed up like a maid displayed at the main entrance.
And the photos remind me ... at the Stuttgart Christmas market there is even a "Gluehwein" hut with a singing moose head on top. No real moose, a puppet. I guess it's supposed to be funny, but I never heard someone laugh about that (imho) creep. I guess you need to have a few Gluehweine for starting to appreciate the thing. ;) Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAPIgV6wS-8
:'D I'd really like to see how that stuffed boar-maid looks! XD I've seen a lot of stuffed animals in general, but never one that was dressed up.
Actually last year there was a similar hut with a moving and singing moose-head puppet in the Bonn christmas market too. Really creepy and tasteless thing. But then again to me German christmas markerts are all about glitter, kitsch and eating & drinking uncomfortably outdoors in a huge crowd. Not really my thing, even if I like to walk through a christmas market (and to drink a cup or two gluehwein) once or twice in the season.
More than once I've tried to imagine what's the majors opinion on german christmas markets. After all they seem to be everything he'd hate, but then again they are a very GERMAN thing... Alphapets I can easily picture gathering together in christmas market to gossip and drink gluehwein.
"I'd really like to see how that stuffed boar-maid looks! XD I've seen a lot of stuffed animals in general, but never one that was dressed up."
Just imagine a standing boar in a black mini skirt with a little white apron ...maybe also a headpiece, I am not quite sure here ... but at least the poor thing was spared of a frilly blouse and fake bosom!
...Yeah, Christmas markets - there are some which claim to be atmospheric and a little quieter, but I haven't visited one of them yet. I've been several times to the famous one in Nuremberg, quite a sight but everything -but- relaxing. Expect perhaps when live choirs sing nearby, then the people teeend to slow down and listen. ... Oh, I just remember the medieval Christmas market in Erlangen, that one is kinda cozy! But then, not very christmas-y cozy.
I presuuume the Major would think about today's Christmas markets only little better than about the Reeperbahn.
The singing and talking moose heads on Bonn Christmas market aren't real IMO. So I find the stuffed boar head much more creepy. The boar dressed as a maid takes the prize in tastelessness, though. Wow!
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Thanks for the pictures.
And, Merry Christmas!
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I agree with you, but apparently the thought of merry KGB agents singing this song was a tad too affective a mental image for me. Also in this context a quick association to the Salome asking for John the Baptists head theme occurred to me. I believe you know why. ;)
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Yeah, Germany loves its stuffed hunting trophies ... at a restaurant my family used to visit there is a dead boar on its hind legs dressed up like a maid displayed at the main entrance.
And the photos remind me ... at the Stuttgart Christmas market there is even a "Gluehwein" hut with a singing moose head on top. No real moose, a puppet. I guess it's supposed to be funny, but I never heard someone laugh about that (imho) creep. I guess you need to have a few Gluehweine for starting to appreciate the thing. ;)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAPIgV6wS-8
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Actually last year there was a similar hut with a moving and singing moose-head puppet in the Bonn christmas market too. Really creepy and tasteless thing. But then again to me German christmas markerts are all about glitter, kitsch and eating & drinking uncomfortably outdoors in a huge crowd. Not really my thing, even if I like to walk through a christmas market (and to drink a cup or two gluehwein) once or twice in the season.
More than once I've tried to imagine what's the majors opinion on german christmas markets. After all they seem to be everything he'd hate, but then again they are a very GERMAN thing... Alphapets I can easily picture gathering together in christmas market to gossip and drink gluehwein.
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Just imagine a standing boar in a black mini skirt with a little white apron ...maybe also a headpiece, I am not quite sure here ... but at least the poor thing was spared of a frilly blouse and fake bosom!
...Yeah, Christmas markets - there are some which claim to be atmospheric and a little quieter, but I haven't visited one of them yet. I've been several times to the famous one in Nuremberg, quite a sight but everything -but- relaxing. Expect perhaps when live choirs sing nearby, then the people teeend to slow down and listen. ... Oh, I just remember the medieval Christmas market in Erlangen, that one is kinda cozy! But then, not very christmas-y cozy.
I presuuume the Major would think about today's Christmas markets only little better than about the Reeperbahn.
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The boar dressed as a maid takes the prize in tastelessness, though. Wow!
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