This isn’t something you’d expect out of Germany. It’s currently Carnival time in which people run around in costumes and various festivals and parades are held. Today is Rosenmontag. Parades, which are often political, featured a variety of politicians from America, Germany, France and Iran. In Düsseldorf, quite an uproar occurred because of the following float:
The entire photo collection can be seen here which feature Angelika Merkel, Bush, Edmund Stoiber, Hitler and more.
Thanks to Grendel.
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Chief Wiggum added these pithy words on 19 Feb 07 at 10:34 pmReality and Cliche”“ LOL
Sonagi added these pithy words on 19 Feb 07 at 10:47 pmThe featured photo is the best, but the Statue of Liberty giving GW a spanking with the tablet is a close second.
Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace added these pithy words on 20 Feb 07 at 1:26 amI agree with Sonagi – alas not a very compelling likenesss of W….
But jolly good fun…
Rommel added these pithy words on 20 Feb 07 at 6:36 amGW caricatures – now THAT is cliche.
red ant added these pithy words on 20 Feb 07 at 7:17 am“This isn’t something you’d expect out of Germany.”
Why not? There’s an expert on Germany here?You see, if you have a little patience, the germans will get around to offending everybody, nice and fair.
Poor Rommel, not happy are we? Musn’t mock your dear leader? Maybe you should change your identity to Patten then.
Hugh Jardohn added these pithy words on 20 Feb 07 at 5:18 pmThe targets were, of course, the easy ones. Unless I didn’t see all the pictures, I must have missed the “bars of soap float” making fun of what, after all, Germany is best known for.
adamu added these pithy words on 21 Feb 07 at 5:50 amThey got it all wrong. Everyone knows they shoot AK47s into the air not 9mms
