Re[2]: Cleaning Windshields

[rochow@pixelmagic.com]

>> >Germans use little solid yellow open-weave sponges.  I've forgotten
>> >what they're called - "Muecken-something"?
>>
>> Mueckenschwamm, of course.
>> Thanks, something else to be added to the souvenir-from-Germany list.
>
>BULLS-EYE!!
>
>Those are the things.  And the impregnated rags to inhibit fogging.

Yes, Antibeschlagtuecher - is that a specifically German thing, then?
(There are things you grow up with and think they're just normal,
until you leave the country and find out they're not - e.g. TU"V examiners
which complain about floor rust (made into a hole by the examiner's 
screwdriver) and miss a lower steering arm about to collapse from
rusting away, which then breaks off during a no-speed curb hit 2
weeks later)

>Cup-holders are for wimps.

Non-sequiturs'R'Us?

BTW, it's Nena, not Nina. And '99 Luftballons' didn't make too much
sense in German, either :) (On a related note, I recently heard the
English version of "Der Kommissar"; never knew that existed.)