Author: jens helf
Date: 14:27:07 03/01/03
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On March 01, 2003 at 08:49:14, Mike Hood wrote: >On March 01, 2003 at 08:38:53, pavel wrote: > >>On March 01, 2003 at 08:21:13, Mike Hood wrote: >> >>>Hmmm... judging by the hat that's appeared on the Chessbase logo on the German >>>page (www.chessbase.de) it must be Fasching again. Please don't ask me to >>>explain it... I had to live in Germany for 6 years before I even started to >>>understand the Fasching mentality. And that was only after I'd had my tie cut >>>off three years in a row. >> >>http://www.chessbase.de/images/fasnach2.wav >> >>What language is that and what does it mean? >>Seems like hack again. >> >>pavs > >It's a little snip of German that sounds like a drinking toast. "I wish everyone >the best on the high level". I doubt the site has really been hijacked, as was >claimed last year. It's probably a joke by Chessbase employees. > >One of the Fasching traditions is that the local town hall is occupied by a >Fasching club, and the mayor is forced to make a silly speech. It could be an >excerpt from from one of those speeches, made by a politician that most Germans >would recognize. it is a büttenredner and it is german, tho i am german i dont understand it really, first part means "i wish everyone the best,...", but the end is certainly not "auf nem hohen niveau", but something else.
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