Nazi raccoons conquer Europe

Raccoons released by Hermann Goering in Germany in 1934 to "enrich the Reich's fauna" are threatening to succeed where their Nazi benefactors failed by conquering Europe.

They have become so successful that German authorities revealed this week that raccoon numbers are now at record levels - with more than a million in Germany alone.

In neighbouring Austria the first raccoons have also been spotted and info leaflets have been dispatched warning people against feeding or encouraging the North American natives.

Plans are being discussed to employ "raccoon hunters" to try and reduce the scale of the problem and put a bounty on raccoon pelts.

The first pair of raccoons were released at Kassel, in the wooded hill country north of Frankfurt, where there are now 100 raccoons per square kilometre - the same density as North America.

Residential homes in Kassel resemble fortresses with mesh wire covering all openings and spikes defending drainpipes and gutters. Rubbish bins are secured with bungee cords or padlocks.

Kassel has hired an animal control officer whose sole duty is to patrol the streets in search of raccoons and answer residents' appeals for help.

The city has even paid zoologists from a nearby university to tag and study raccoons in a bid to determine the scope of the problem.

"Kassel is definitely the raccoon capital of Europe," says Ulf Hohmann, head of the raccoon study project. "I'd say 50% of the residents here have had close encounters with raccoons, some of them on a repeated or even regular basis.

"Our job is to educate the public about these marvellous animals as we study their true impact on the European environment."

But "Kraut" relates us to sour cabbage.

Eek.

Exactly... it is a lame insult and always has been. I'm half German and just cannot bring myself to acknowledge the word as derogatory. To do so would be to grant the users of that "slur" far more credit than they deserve. And besides, it always reminds me of Oktoberfest. Mmmmmm.....

"Kraut" is outranked in the pantheon of ineffective insults by the term "Rosbeefs", evidently the current insult du' jour which the French use in referring to the British. That one just makes me want to chuckle; I can't imagine that the British feel very insulted by it.

Barbecued Raccoon

1 Racoon
1 bn Celery
3 cl Garlic; chopped
2 lg Red onions; quartered
1 lg Apple; quartered
3 Hot red peppers
1 c Vinegar
3 tb Salt

BE SURE LYMPH GLANDS OF RACCOON ARE REMOVED!!! Have someone who is experienced remove the glands as well as the skin and as much fat as you can. Pull celery apart and wash. Place all ingredients in pot with enough water to cover raccoon. Bring to slow boil and cook until tender or until fork goes in easily, about 1-2 hours depending upon size of raccoon. Remove meat from pot, cut off front and back legs; cut remainder into four pieces. Place on rack, brush with your favorite barbeque sauce. Place in 400 deg. oven; turn and baste frequently with barbecue sauce until a golden brown, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Serves 6.

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Have I flung a cravin' on you?

Re: #20: What are you talking about?

Original posting - "Nazi raccoons conquer Europe

Raccoons released by Hermann Goering in Germany in 1934 to "enrich the Reich's fauna" are threatening to succeed where their Nazi benefactors failed by conquering Europe.

They have become so successful that German authorities revealed this week that raccoon numbers are now at record levels - with more than a million in Germany alone.

In neighbouring Austria the first raccoons have also been spotted and info leaflets have been dispatched warning people against feeding or encouraging the North American natives.

Plans are being discussed to employ "raccoon hunters" to try and reduce the scale of the problem and put a bounty on raccoon pelts.

The first pair of raccoons were released at Kassel, in the wooded hill country north of Frankfurt, where there are now 100 raccoons per square kilometre - the same density as North America.

Residential homes in Kassel resemble fortresses with mesh wire covering all openings and spikes defending drainpipes and gutters. Rubbish bins are secured with bungee cords or padlocks.

Kassel has hired an animal control officer whose sole duty is to patrol the streets in search of raccoons and answer residents' appeals for help.

The city has even paid zoologists from a nearby university to tag and study raccoons in a bid to determine the scope of the problem.

"Kassel is definitely the raccoon capital of Europe," says Ulf Hohmann, head of the raccoon study project. "I'd say 50% of the residents here have had close encounters with raccoons, some of them on a repeated or even regular basis.

"Our job is to educate the public about these marvellous animals as we study their true impact on the European environment."

Bis,

Perhaps I should have been more officiously blunt in my comment to you and less "IRONIC" with my contemporary subject parallel to this article's author's own vermin parallel in European 20th Century ueber alles history.

Perhaps you should reread the original article above, what I stated, and how I said it, because you didn't read for comprehension to understand the author's words or my words and phrases and you made up a wild fantasy about my statement according to your response.

Is English your first language? Second language?

Why did you contrive your insult from my topic as "current Germany" from this article's discussion of and repeated statements that "Europe" was being over run by 'coons?

Why did you make up your accusing comparison of "current Germany" to the 3rd Reich?

My shameless ignorance is about your reading level rather than post-Bismark history of Western Europe.

I stand by my analogy of current islamists guided by their dead Fuehrer's 'Mein Koran' as they further mobilize to conquor Europe and the rest of the world while the utopian, war weary, spoiled, USA protected Europeans again entertaining themselves in self-absorption surrounded by pre-Bliztkrieg Berlin-style caberet hedonism ueber alles.

Perhaps the author's 'coon anaology threw you, or are you still defending against Germany's uebermensch shame.

Grow up, Bis.

History is being repeated by islam, socialists, fascists, and most Euopeans' willful refusal to see the coming war death as Old Europe's leadership is documented accepting Saddman's oily bahk$hee$h aus Islamia, of the 3rd Reich's world dominion allies of 70 years ago.

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kraut ( P ) Pronunciation Key (krout)
n.
1. Sauerkraut.
2. often Kraut Offensive Slang. Used as a disparaging term for a German.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts."

My Webster's is less absolute over its definition of "kraut".

What is the word police's resource of choice to ascertain alledged OFFENSIVE SLANG?

Is the use of any historical or contemporaneously coined word or phrase which may be contrued by anyone to be potentially "offending", either in reality or to further an agenda, regardless of which historical context in which said word or phrase is derived, may be utilized, OR the contextual intent of the author's printed message which can only be conveyed by the use of historical words accreating in the PC word police's world an actionable offense in the FR admin world?

For example: (1)"cheese head" (2) "hun" (3) "yankee"

Because you chose to police this thread and blow your whistlke over someone's use of the word "kraut", we would all benefit from your contribution to word policing policy using these three examples offered above.

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