h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Nice wee fancy.

I checked with some Germans about the Kennedy story, and they confirmed that it is perfectly good German to say "Ich bin ein Berliner". I had made up what otherwise would have been quite a tasty limerick, but which I then had to suppress -- but hey, here it is anyway:

Did JFK do it for fun?
"Ich bin ein Berliner" -- I'm one!
As "Ich bin Berliner"
The phrase was a winner
So why did he say "I'm a bun"?

While I'm at it,

We can tell whence the Frankfurter came,
And the Hamburger: all in the name.
But my search through the map's
Unsuccessful; perhaps
There's no city called Beefburg? A shame.

oh I love that second one.

I've lived here for ... well a lot of my 42 years, and it was only when i wrote the entry that I realised that you could say "Ich bin ein Berliner"

Still, it does make a good story.

I visited Berlin for the first time last November. Didn't know you were there. Visited the musical instrument collection

oh, I'm a loooong way from Berlin. And in fact, the last time I was there, so was the wall!

The wall is so bizarre. A bit of it is left, and it's incredibly flimsy! Stone walls do not a prison make, it's the guys patrolling them with floodlights and guns, as the poet might have said.