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[geekchick]

Mmm, girls with glasses. Amen, brother.

Unrelatedly, this is making my eyes bleed. David Hasselhoff. There's not a lot more to say than that. This is either the funniest or the most terrifying thing I've seen in a long time.

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[geminigirl]

Where are all the boys who like girls wearing glasses? *sigh* I have cute reddish ones and neat turtlerimmed ones.

The David Hasselhoff thing doesn't shock me...just makes me laugh; when I lived in Germany in the early 90's, he was hugely popular. None of the American's I knew over there could figure that out.

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

I never got the David Hasslehoff thing, either. That and bananas..Germans *loved* bananas about as much as they liked David Hasslehoff.

I brought some bananas with me into East Germany when I went there for a day (May of 1990, so there was still an East Germany...5 mark "fee" to get in, 50 mark "fee" to get out..payable only in West German marks, of course), and gave them to the class I and my exchange group visited.

People acted like I'd given them a few pounds of gold. impassioned speeches, tears..it was incredible. "We have not seen bananas since Angola stopped being a fraternal socialist brother!" was one comment.

Part of it was just the whole "we live in a communist hellhole where no one can get anything at all, and you've given me something!" reaction, of course. Part of it was the whole German banana thing. In West Germany, there were bananas all over the place, and people still chased after them with as much fervor as a starving person going for a meal. (i.e. in the same way they went after anything involving David Hasselhoff.)

And then there was cinnamon..for some reason, you couldn't get cinnamon prodcuts (gum and candies) in Germany. I love cinnamon, so I brought a ton of cinnamony stuff with me to Germany....and sold a chunk of it to Germans who were bouncing up and down at the prospect of getting something with cinnamon in it.

[geminigirl]

It's funny-I don't remember seeing bananas at all when I was living there. I lived in a village near Cologne, an hour or so away on train. In fact, I don't remember seeing much fruit at all, except the days we went to the market. Unless it was fruit in sweets, or fruit juice.

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was a Braunschweig thang..Magdeburg (where i went in East Germany) was pretty close.

Now that I think of it, I didn't even see any bananas in Berlin.

[geekchick]

when I lived in Germany in the early 90's, he was hugely popular

Oh yeah, when my boss at the time came back from visiting her son who was stationed over there, she was like "you'd never believe how HUGE David Hasselhoff is in Germany". I suppose of Jerry Lewis can be huge in France, David Hasselhoff in Germany makes as much sense. =)

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

It is one of those little known laws, like the law of conservation of Michael Caine (for every good movie Michael Caine is in, he must be in a bad one).

This is the law of bizarre European fixations on American entertainers. In Italy, for instance, Tim Thomerson (Jack Deth, for those of you who have seen the Trancers series) is so popular there's been talk of just overthrowing the government (the one in power this week) and just making him Il Duce.

Parker Posey is so beloved in Solvenia that she dares not visit that land again, lest she once again be mobbed by a crowd of men demanding to make sweet whoopie, and a crowd of women announcing they're ready to experiment, provided it's with her.

And Treat Williams..well, let's just say that many children in Latvia are named "Treat," and have been ever since DEEP RISING was out in theaters there.

And I would never, ever, make any of this up! ;)