True story & an explanation of
@Capt. Drunkey's custom title on this forum...
Several years ago during one of the annual meet ups organised on our previous forum.
Capt flew over to the UK & hired a car.
He decided he still wanted to follow the Saturday ride-out & asked if I fancied riding shotgun?
We had a right laugh & put the world to rights on many subjects. All whilst watching the guys on bikes through the torrential rain hitting the hire cars windscreen. That was funny as well in a cruel sadistic kinda way
During the journey we spotted a large dead badger at the side of the road. This is how our conversation went...
Oh, that poor creature. What a way to die.
If the truth was known. It probably wasn't hit by a vehicle. It was more than likely killed by a farmer & dumped there to make it look like it was hit by a vehicle.
Why would that happen?
Well, farmers believe that badgers carry TB & pass it on to their livestock. But it's illegal to kill them.
So the Bad Ger was hit by a vehicle then yes.
First off, there's nothing "Bad" about it. It's all one word i.e. Badger. And no, it was more than likely killed by a farmer.
But you said that is illegal!
It is.
So how is this allowed to happen?
I don't suppose the farmer told anyone he did it mate.
But it is illegal, yes?
Yes, have you never done anything illegal?
Don't bother answering that. Look, there's a pub, fancy a pint?
During the conversation I asked Capt what the German word is for a badger? He told me it's a Dachs.
Apparently that's how the Dachshund dog got its name? The crazy Germans send them down badger sets!
That explains the long thin body. But I'd have thought a Dachs would kick the arse of a Dachshund!
Anyway, by the time Capt dropped me back at the bunkhouse & went back to his comfy hotel (he's too posh to slum it with us plebs)
I'd forgotten the german name for a badger but I still told the other lads the story & made up a german sounding name for a badger.
Capt turned up later that evening for food & beer at the bunkhouse (he's not too posh for that
)
This is how our conversation went...
I was telling the lads the story of the Schnitzelwiesel at the side of the road. And how your honest German head couldn't grasp how it really died.
What the hell is a Schnitzelwiesel?
I forgot the German word for badger.
It's Dachs, how on earth could you forget that. But dream up a word like
Schnitzelwiesel FFS?
Erm... dunno?
And that gentlemen, is why Capt is King Of The Schnitzelwiesels