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From: Phoenix T'Kar <tkar@dimensional.com>
Subject: Re: THE TICK
Date: 1996/11/21
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On 20 Nov 1996, Lisa M. Higgs wrote:

> 
> Sven Guckes (guckes@banach.math.fu-berlin.de) writes:
> >> >s> Someone posted a picture of A tick, but I would like one of THE TICK,
> >> >s> cause there is always room for one more arthropod on the network.
> >> >s> Perhaps Die Fliedermaus too?
> 
> >>> Just tell me: What's the difference an what the hell is 'Die Fliedermaus'?
> 
> >> Die Fliedermaus, as I understand it, is German for The Field Mouse.
> >> I believe there is an opera by the name Die Fliedermaus.
> > 
> > (1) It's "Die Fledermaus", meaning "bat".
> > (2) It's an operetta.
> > (3) Field mouse translates to "Feldmaus".
> > (4) Field mice don't fly.
> > 
> > HTH.
> > Sven
> 
> That might be true for the opera, but it is not true for the original
> post.  The character in the television show "The Tick" is in fact named Die
> Fliedermaus, and I have seen that spelling on-air (perhaps Americans can't
> spell in German?).  I assume it is supposed to translate to field mouse or
> flying mouse or something of the like, because the character Die
> Fleidermaus is a superhero who dresses in a mouse costume with a cape (and
> does indeed [sorta] fly).  
> 
> --
> I want to hang from the old creepy. (DA)
> 
> 

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Der Fledermaus. 'fledermaus' in german means 'bat'. There once a nightclub
I used to hang out at near Giessen, Germany that was named Der Fledermaus.
The character you people are talking about on The Tick is suppost to be a
bat. (Sort of the tick worlds version of Batman.)
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