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[challenge entry] Another 'inspired by' post

(I have no hummus, I have to sponge it off others...)

From the If Hitler had won the war challenge. See all 569 entries (closed)

(, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 1:14, archived)
# you are a doughnut?
(, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 1:19, archived)
# JFK said it...
(, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 1:23, archived)
# Eddie
Izzard.
My hero
(, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 1:24, archived)
# mine too
along with Robert Rankin and Michael Moore.
(, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 1:26, archived)
# Did he/she say it
as well?
(, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 1:27, archived)
# Eddie Izzard
made a big thing about the him actually saying "I am a doughnut" rather than his intended "I am also an inhabitant of berlin" as have many before - but i don t think any ive herd as funny as Mr Izzard
(, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 1:31, archived)
# Actcherly
he said "I am a sausage".
"Ein Berliner" is "One Sausage*", literally translated.
He should have said "Ich bin Berlinerich", which would have meant "I am a Berliner".
I suppose our American friends had to turn it into a donut so the populace would understand.

*Sausage produced/sold exclusively in Berlin, if the story be right
(, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 1:45, archived)