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Completely inane (OS related?) trivia

1. In the movie The Thing by John Carpenter, there is a character named Mac (short for Macready) and another named Windows (the nickname of the radio operator). At some point in the movie Mac torches Windows with a flame thrower. (Of course this film was made before MS Windows or the Macintosh existed -- a premonition maybe?)

2. In WWII, the German Wermacht had a main battle tank called a Panzerkampfwagon or Panzer, which is 'Panther' in English. The follow-up tank to take its place later in the war was called the Tiger. [edit: I was wrong about this one - see next post]

#219929

to 1: maybe yes i can't remember the characters

to 2: A panzer is'nt a panther :P

It's a tank nothing more and nothing less...

Panther(english)=Panther(german)

Tank(english)=Panzer(german)

Student wrote this 10 times :D

Lesson closed lol

Sascha

#219931

to 2: A panzer is'nt a panther :P

Sascha

Bummer. Bad data. Thanks for the correction. I knew I should've paid more attention in Spanish.

#219937

u r welcome ;)

by the way go to the German Apple Site and search the Tab called: OS X Panzer lol

Sascha

PS: if u want to learn something about germany go here or here lmao

#219940

u r welcome ;)

by the way go to the German Apple Site and search the Tab called: OS X Panzer lol

Now you're just being mean.

PS: if u want to learn something about germany go here or here lmao
Ja. Arrogant. My grandmother is from Duestchland. I'll just ask her.

#219941

no im not arrogant, belive me :) if you want IM me on yahoo: saosx2000 and you will see im not mean ;)

#219943

no im not arrogant, belive me :) if you want IM me on yahoo: saosx2000 and you will see im not mean ;)

No, no, no. You misunderstand. I guess I need more smilies in there. I was being sarcastic. You had put "Imao" i.e. - in my arrogant opinion. No worries. It's all cool.

Anyway, your English is way better than my German, so hats off to you.

cheers

#219954

Hey, I love Oktoberfest website :P

#219955

Actually, the german Wehrmacht named their tanks after wildlife predators and the current Bundeswehr continues to do so, so pazl is right from a wrong deduction line...

Panther, Tiger, Marder (kind of ferret), Wiesel (weasel), Leopard I & II, Fuchs (fox, spent my compulsory military service driving this one) to name a few.

#219977