This could be fun ...

[lurch70]

not sure if you guys ever saw this ..
http://www.planearium.de/flash/spstudio.html

you can only save them as Screen Shots though ..

working on mine

 

[lurch70]

 

[NAD]

From last time I did one of these shits:

 

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[lizard]

how do you save??

haha gesicht I haven't heard that word in years

 

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how do you save??

You gotta make a screenshot... Hit "print" on your keyboard (or "Druck" in case you're using a German keyboard ), then insert the pic into some kind of graphic program, such as Photoshop, XnView, etc.

 

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This article was originally published on page 15 of Sunday Independent http://www.sundayindependent.co.za on March 27, 2005:


Untidy? You need to rent a German

By Ruth Elkins

They have a knack of annexing sun loungers. They can cook a mean bratwurst. They win World Cups. Now, though, instead of simply envying the Germans, you can rent one for yourself.

"A wide range of Germans for your personal and social needs," promises www.rentagerman.de, a new website.

"Appear with your German at parties, family events or just hang out with them at the local shopping centre. No matter which occasion you choose, you will surely impress."

'It's absolutely unbelievable'

Be warned, though: Teutons don't come cheap.

Hiring one to boil up sauerkraut in the comfort of your own home will set you back £800 (about R9 000). Support at business meetings costs £832 and a holiday package ("Our Germans will do their best to give you happy moments at the hotel bar") is £520.

If this all sounds like a bit of a joke, that's how it started. Johannes Blank, who set up the website, is a Munich-based "new media" artist who saw it as a conceptual stunt. But he should have known that a German joke is no laughing matter: as soon as the site went live a fortnight ago, he was besieged by applications from people wanting to hire themselves out.

"It's absolutely unbelievable," said Blank. "They've been sending me entirely serious applications, complete with photos, listing their talents."

With 5,2 million unemployed in Germany, such a reaction was perhaps to be expected.

But Blank has also discovered that there is plenty of demand for such precious Prussian talents as tidiness and making trains run on time. Rent-a-German has received more than 200 orders from as far away as America, Malaysia and Britain.

"One Belgian firm told me they were having an international meeting near Brussels to develop trivia games, and were desperate to have a German mind there," said the artist.

"They even offered to take him or her out to a local disco as a reward."

Next, a London family got in touch. They said they'd had years of trouble getting a sun lounger on their summer holidays, and wanted a German to come along to teach them the tricks of the trade.

The response has been so great that Blank says he's now looking for car
showrooms outside Germany to display his human wares.

Last week Chancellor Gerhard Schröder held a special "job summit" and announced tax cuts to boost employment. Blank is ready to do his bit, and will visit job centres as a potential employer, but he says Rent-a-German is really about challenging well-worn stereotypes.

"Whenever I was abroad, the first comment I got was: 'Oh, you're German', followed by a long conversation about how all Germans are right-wing radicals who spend the entire day eating bratwurst," he said.

"I thought if everyone's so bloody interested in Germans, I might as well rent them out."

- Foreign Service




Didn't know where to post this, "this could be fun..." seemed an appropriate title...

 

[lizard]

haha I saw that rentagerman the other day...be careful though you don't click on a gastarbeiter.

You gotta make a screenshot... Hit "print" on your keyboard (or "Druck" in case you're using a German keyboard ), then insert the pic into some kind of graphic program, such as Photoshop, XnView, etc.

danke.

 

[NAD]

I'd have to say that rules. I'm German somewhere down the line, not sure how far. Where else would a name like Heikes come from?

 

[NAD]

What I mean to say is that I'm for hire.

 

[lizard]

I think the Heikes family originated down around Schiavograd or someplace

my german half is from Glauchau; my English half from Suffolk via the Norman invasion.

 

[lizard]

would you change that fucking avatar hahahahaha

 

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danke.

Gerngeschehen.

 

[NAD]

would you change that fucking avatar hahahahaha

It's the B-sharps! I'll probably change it this afternoon, once I'm assured to have annoyed/disgusted/ / whatever more than a handful of people.

 

[lizard]

I guess I can't say gruss gott to you because that is mostly bavarian, no?

 

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my german half is from Glauchau

Heh, that's not too far from here. That small town's even got a decent concert venue.

 

[lizard]

sometimes I wish my mom had gotten pregnant just a few months later and I would have been born in Berlin!
somewhere around here I've got my baby pic in lederhosen....

 

[lizard]

Heh, that's not too far from here. That small town's even got a decent concert venue.

I know almost nothing about them except that they were Schuelers and emigrated from Germany just in time to get sucked into the American Civil War.
bad timing, that....

 

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I guess I can't say gruss gott to you because that is mostly bavarian, no?

Yeh, haha, you better don't... We owe all these ridiculous German clichés to the Bavarians. I met a Korean guy in New Zealand a few years ago, and first thing he said was: "Hey, you can't be German! You're not blonde, you're not tall, you're not fat, you don't eat meat, and you don't drink beer!" (Well, I didn't drink any back then...) And I wasn't even wearing a traditional costume. :Smug:



WTF?!

 

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sometimes I wish my mom had gotten pregnant just a few months later and I would have been born in Berlin!
somewhere around here I've got my baby pic in lederhosen....

I wanna see that pic!
Berlin is a pretty cool city. If you ever need a city guide, let me know.