X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,646616ba42385869 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: dc586@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Lisa M. Higgs) Subject: Re: THE TICK Date: 1996/11/21 Message-ID: <572jiq$j2p@freenet-news.carleton.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 197961001 references: <55sfct$ncc@news.sas.ab.ca> <6KvRffxMocB@p0000069.tindrum.oche.de> organization: The National Capital FreeNet x-given-sender: dc586@freenet3.carleton.ca (Lisa M. Higgs) reply-to: dc586@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Lisa M. Higgs) newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine (dave@xemu.demon.co.uk) writes: > In article <56tri2$mc6@freenet-news.carleton.ca>, "Lisa M. Higgs" > writes >>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 > > Flying mouse, yes. A bat is a sorta mousey thing that flies: > hence the neatly economical German word for it. > Like doodlsack (sp?), a rough-tunes bag, > which we call "bagpipes". OK, cool. :) Let it be known that Die Fliedermaus is indeed a big mouse. Not a bat, a mouse. And he sorta flies. "Come on, spine, work with me!" -- Die Fleidermaus, after "flying" off a building and falling to the ground below peace out -- I want to hang from the old creepy. (DA)