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"Vier Nasen tanken Super" actually translates to: "four noses fill up with super (gasoline)" - "Super" is a grade of gasoline. The complete title is actually a play on a movie from the eighties - "Zwei Nasen tanken Super" - see here

lol.

This is why I should never ever be allowed to think I understand anything in any language.

Vielen Danke, Matthew, unless I just accidentally told you to pet a ferret.

"I begin with rambling, pointless response..."

"...in which what I say isn't so much pointless as obviously wrong."

May I say that the casual way in which you make this kind of offhandedly thoughtful, critical comments about things which you've said or written, is one of the things that makes your work a delight to follow?

Well, I've said it, so nothing you can say can unsay it!

"I begin with rambling, pointless response..."

"...in which what I say isn't so much pointless as obviously wrong."

May I say that the casual way in which you make this kind of offhandedly thoughtful, critical comment about something you've said or written, is one of the things that makes your work a delight to follow?

Well, I've said it, so nothing you can say can unsay it!

Thanks Matt, for explaining it again, though I am pretty sure I told David in an email before the show. :-)

Sebastian, you did indeed explain it to me several weeks ago. Now you know what my retention span is.

What was I just talking about?

I don't remember, but good thing you have it on video, like the Wikimania speech. Well done.