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Bored Germans attack graves #1 (permalink) Sat Feb 26, 2011 20:23 pm   Bored Germans attack graves
 

Actually I made a mistake it should be German Boars instead of Bored Germans :-(


German boars destroy UK soldiers' cemetery
Published: 25 Feb 11 14:45 CET
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A sounder of hungry wild boars destroyed a Berlin cemetery for British soldiers this week, rooting up graves and headstones and causing some €10,000 in damages.
The British Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the city’s Charlottenburg district, usually characterized by immaculate landscaping, now looks like a ploughed field, gardener Philippe Fontaine said.
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Bored Germans attack graves #2 (permalink) Sat Feb 26, 2011 23:29 pm   Bored Germans attack graves
 

Hi!

When I first read the title of the thread, I was like, "Bored Germans did what?!" Then I thought of stupid Neo-Nazis vandalizing a bunch of graves. Nope, a much more intelligent species felt the need to remodel the cemetery: bored boars. Just goes to show that nature knows no boundaries. Quite some costly fun these hogs have had! I hope they don't have to pay for it with their lives. Sorry for the dead soldiers' kin, though.

Nice photo, by the way. Got some pics of pigs with wigs?

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Bored Germans attack graves #3 (permalink) Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:28 am   Bored Germans attack graves
 

Cgk wrote:
Got some pics of pigs with wigs? Claudia

Funny you should ask Claudia.....

There are unconfirmed reports coming in
that a follow up search of the Boars territory
has uncovered erotic photos of scantily clad Pigs
including the one below....
Investigators are still refusing to rule out
Sexual frustration as a possible motive

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Bored Germans attack graves #4 (permalink) Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:59 am   Bored Germans attack graves
 

How about a hog on a log?

Ooh, that reminds me, I need to post something in that Get Stuffed thread of yours . . .

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Bored Germans attack graves #5 (permalink) Sun Feb 27, 2011 19:41 pm   Bored Germans attack graves
 

Well said Claudia
What did you think of Miss Piggies Oinkment? i seen her last night at a swine and cheese party she was holding hams with a real boar - Unfortunately i had too much to drink and made a real pig of myself - but I still got plenty of hogs and kisses ...:-)

I know what Bill would say!! - (Hogwash :-))
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Bored Germans attack graves #6 (permalink) Sun Feb 27, 2011 20:53 pm   Bored Germans attack graves
 

Political Lurker wrote:
i seen her last night at a swine and cheese party she was holding hams with a real boar -


So she was pigging out again, huh?! Did you notice that Miss Piggy gets a bit wiggly when she drinks too much wine with all these swine? But you know what they say, If a hog gets lost in the fog, it needs to follow the roar of a boar. Yes, a pig once told me that in Oinkish, this idiom actually does have a deep meaning.

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Bored Germans attack graves #7 (permalink) Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:01 am   Bored Germans attack graves
 

lol, your mind is polluted Lurker. Always looking for the bad side of everything, :))
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Bored Germans attack graves #8 (permalink) Wed Mar 02, 2011 12:38 pm   Bored Germans attack graves
 

There is a saying here around: "Whatīs an owl to the one means a mockingbird to the other." Original sound: " Dem ennen sin Uhl is demm annern sin Nachtigall!" Old North-Rhine-Westfalian farmer wisdom. :-)
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Bored Germans attack graves #9 (permalink) Wed Mar 02, 2011 13:23 pm   Bored Germans attack graves
 

Foah wrote:
There is a saying here around: "Whatīs an owl to the one means a mockingbird to the other." Original sound: " Dem ennen sin Uhl is demm annern sin Nachtigall!" Old North-Rhine-Westfalian farmer wisdom. :-)


I daresay that saying makes more sense. But isn't a Nachtigall a nightingale and a mockingbird a Spottdrossel?

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Bored Germans attack graves #10 (permalink) Wed Mar 02, 2011 13:27 pm   Bored Germans attack graves
 

Cgk wrote:
If a hog gets lost in the fog, it needs to follow the roar of a boar.


As a side note for my fellow English learners: this is not a real English idiom. I made it up during one of my bored moments. It is, in fact, hogwash.

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Bored Germans attack graves #11 (permalink) Wed Mar 02, 2011 20:18 pm   Bored Germans attack graves
 

Lurker,
I was bored and depressed today, but following your private message and reading this topic made me laugh! Thanks man, thanks!

Two questions from me:
1. What was the gardener doing during the attack?
2. Are those boars that free that they could come that close to the cemetery?
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Bored Germans attack graves #12 (permalink) Wed Mar 02, 2011 20:21 pm   Bored Germans attack graves
 

And two images with Google's help for you!



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Bored Germans attack graves #13 (permalink) Wed Mar 02, 2011 20:35 pm   Bored Germans attack graves
 

Hello Claudia,

yes youīre right, a mocking bird isnīt a nightingale. Iīm a bit ashamd having claimed that, since even to me mocking bird sounded much too average to mean a bird wich is capable a so nice twitter.

And donīt worry about your self-created idiom. Every of them have been unknown until someone invented them.
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Bored Germans attack graves #14 (permalink) Wed Mar 02, 2011 22:06 pm   Bored Germans attack graves
 

Pasban110 wrote:
2. Are those boars that free that they could come that close to the cemetery?


hello Pasban,

itīs much worse, Iīm afraid. As Jamie pointed to an event in Berlin, itīs scary but the boars seem to have conquered even the Berlin "Reichstag", the residence of the German Government, and empowerred themselves. Anyway, Germany has improved to a very free country for either, the boars and the governors.:-) Kidding......
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Bored Germans attack graves #15 (permalink) Wed Mar 02, 2011 23:48 pm   Bored Germans attack graves
 

Foah wrote:
Pasban110 wrote:
2. Are those boars that free that they could come that close to the cemetery?


hello Pasban,

itīs much worse, Iīm afraid. As Jamie pointed to an event in Berlin, itīs scary but the boars seem to have conquered even the Berlin "Reichstag", the residence of the German Government, and empowerred themselves. Anyway, Germany has improved to a very free country for either, the boars and the governors.:-) Kidding......



Your right about the Reichstag Michael but i felt a bit sorry for poor Angel when she was doing "Piggy in the middle" for Dubya and Tony Bliar!!

Nice Pics Pasban - lets see a few more :-)
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