You know you’re in the West when on NPR, the local police chief advises the inhabitants of your (densely populated) surroundings not to “celebrate the New Year by firing their guns in the air” because “the bullets will come down somewhere and might do harm”. Hardly any rockets around here, by the way, they are much too dangerous. All this reminded me of a song about a fellow German expat, who put it so well: Once ze rrrrockets are up, who cares where zey come down? Thatz not my department, says Wernher von Braun.
Happy New Year!
cohu's blog 
2. January 2011 at 07:28
Grrrrrrreat!
Happy new year from the old europe!
All the best wishes for you and our favourite scientist!
Tobi + Anke
2. January 2011 at 09:29
Klasse :-)))
Sie kennen sicher sein Lied über das Periodensystem?
Das schicke ich immer meinen Schülern.
Er soll übrigens das “Tauben vergiften im Park” geschrieben haben, und Kreisler hat es nur geklaut.
Ob das stimmt?
Sein könnte es.
Ein wunderbares Neues Jahr wünsche ich
und viele Grüße aus dem eingeschneiten Deutschland
croco
2. January 2011 at 13:28
“During his stay at Fort Bliss, von Braun mailed a marriage proposal to 18-year-old Maria Luise von Quistorp, his cousin on his mother’s side. On March 1, 1947, having received permission to go back to Germany and return with his bride, he married her in a Lutheran church in Landshut, Germany.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
Ha! Draufgänger.
2. January 2011 at 23:32
croco, das habe ich mich auch schon gefragt. Also trotzdem gut, dass der Kreisler geklaut hat, denn seine Version finde ich (bei aller Tom-Lehrer-Liebe) einfach besser.