Lance wrote:I missed this yesterday, but 14 years ago on January 20th I smoked my last cigarette.
Arneb wrote:28 January, 1997 - A totally insignificant German medical dude is given a magna cum laude for his totally insignificant doctoral thesis. On that same day and a few km away, a totally insignificant baby is born in an uncomplicated delivery, his niece. She will be his godchild and can still make him squishy inside 22 years and three own kids later.
Arneb wrote: If you wonder why two years earlier, at 18 years, I did not take part in the Bundestag election of 1987, I must remind you that we West Berliners weren't allowed to, since we were still governed by three Allied City Commanders, and we were not full citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Heid the Ba wrote:Arneb wrote:28 January, 1997 - A totally insignificant German medical dude is given a magna cum laude for his totally insignificant doctoral thesis. On that same day and a few km away, a totally insignificant baby is born in an uncomplicated delivery, his niece. She will be his godchild and can still make him squishy inside 22 years and three own kids later.
You save lives Doc, nothing insignificant about that.
Arneb wrote:That's very gracious, but honestly, they could still manage with one less over here.
Arneb wrote:Oh yes, until 1990, both our Personal Identity Card and the passport bore the adjective "behelfsmäßig", which can be translated as "auxiliary", but also as "makeshift". The Berlin Chamber of Deputies elected the West Berlin contingent of Bundestag MPs, who had the right to speak, but, crucially, not to vote.
On the plus side, West Berliners couldn't be conscripted into the Bundeswehr either, so West Berlin was draft dodgers' paradise - you only had to change your residential adress to one in West Berlin, and it was no mudcreeping for you 'nmore.
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