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Frank Kalder

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No I didn't know that.

Have no idea. I thought that was odd too.

Thee person who posted the post had signed their post with those three websites. Much as you do when you sign each of your posts with your haplif urls. I retained the signature for attribution purposes but didn't really look at them.

I knew that the Prater is in Vienna, but wondered if that word is now used interchangeably in German for all such wheels irrepective of location. Sort of the way a brand name is adopted as the name for everything in that category, irrespective of who makes it.

I have heard people say "The Giant Prater" as if there were other smaller Prater's somewhere..

Nonetheless, the photo was intriguing.

Diddy is of course P Diddy, or Sean Puffy Combs

Fiddy is the rap singer 50 Cent, whose music you have certainly heard.

Fiddy is how some Northern American primarily African Americans pronounce the word "fifty".

This is a recurring theme in almost every Spike Lee movie I have seen. He seems to write himself a part as a man with thick glbuttes (far thicker than he seems to wear normally) and at least once in the movie, says the word "fiddy". Fiddy dollars, usually. Sometimes, Fiddy Cent. Sometimes in some other context. His character's name is usually Morris, but prounced closer to, Mose, with a slight but not total elision of the r's.

I don't know with any certainty whether he does this intentionally. It's an observation.

As a side note, Fiddy and Spike are often feuding about the role of African Americans in movies, and the role of violence in both.

My hearing is again postponed

mk5000

"There's nothing loveier than the original pin up girls"--Kristen Bell of Veronica Mars

This is a recurring theme in almost every Spike Lee movie I have seen. He seems to write himself a part as a man with thick glbuttes (far thicker than he seems to wear normally) and at least once in the movie, says the word "fiddy". Fiddy dollars, usually. Sometimes, Fiddy Cent. Sometimes in some other context. His character's name is usually Morris, but prounced closer to, Mose, with a slight but not total elision of the r's.

I don't know with any certainty whether he does this intentionally. It's an observation.