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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: THE TICK
Date: 1996/11/21
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In article <56tri2$mc6@freenet-news.carleton.ca>, "Lisa M. Higgs"
<dc586@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> 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".  

                                                            
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