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Subject: Re: Is it Fasching again?

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 05:49:14 03/01/03

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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.



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