April Fools Day/April, April!
am 01.04.2007 von Transblawg
Numerous blogs, mailing lists and newspapers are indulging in rather obvious April Fool's Day items. Here's the Urban Word of the Day:
I pity the fool
In Mr. T-glish, a rhetoric comment equivalent to the English “I'd best not find out who it was.”
I pity the fool who scratched my car.
That's just a genuine term chosen for the day. But somehow I know that the Nuremberg pets' home is not looking for a family to take the polar bear cub Knut - let's face it, unlike Fürth, Nuremberg was never part of Prussia.
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Comment by lawyer / Kommentar eines Anwalts
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Nuremberg Zoo/Tiergarten Nürnberg
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Comments
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Profiles / Profile
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Ich war ein Berliner
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Dutch weblogs / Niederländische Blogs
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