Comments on: Girl appears on TV show to identify Star Wars figurines with her mouth

By: akbar56

akbar56 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Someone made a real “Feelyat!”?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JinJ7NY5_E

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The stuff that fetishes are made of

By: SC_Wolf

SC_Wolf — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is right up there with the guy who appeared on That’s Incredible in the early 80s because he could identify the Great Lakes by taste-test.

By: Lobster

Lobster — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Can she identify modified figures? For instance, a bent wookiee?

By: mr_mac

mr_mac — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think the presenter may have raided Colin Baker’s Dr Who closet???

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rather than being Yiddish, “Maidel” is probably the equivalent to Madchen in the Swabian dialect, which is spoken in the south west of Germany, around Stuttgart and the Black Forest. In this dialect you can create the diminutive of a noun by the “le” sound to the end of a noun. In high/proper german you can do this by adding “chen” or “lein” to the end of a noun (Fraulein = little/young woman). In English we do this by adding “ette”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

kleige maidel ?

I think you mean “kleine MÃ¤del” :)

greetings from germany :)

By: bobsyeruncle

bobsyeruncle — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Looking at the screencap it looks like she’s trying to suck a stormtrooper. And now that I’ve seen the video, she blew the snowtrooper. Where do people come up with this stuff? :(

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

To add a little bit of backround info for non-german viewers:

The show is called â€œWetten dass,â€¦â€ which translates to â€œI bet, thatâ€¦â€ or the response â€œBet ya!â€ if you are certain enough of a fact or skill to bet something for it.
People propose a bet on a skill they have and a celebrity (in this case it seems to be a german actor) will tell if he or she thinks it can be done and what he or she will do when the predicted outcome is false.

The identification of stuff with a blindfold on is pretty WD-standard, people recognize everything from stockings to rabbits to the colour of crayons (the crayon colour was a Hoax though by a german satirical magazine â€œtitanicâ€).

There are also loads of technical bets like doing something complicated with a crane, building a Jerry Jeep in 2 minutes and that sort of things. Athletic achievements like tearing phone books, human pyramids and stuff are also popular.

The first bet ever and according to the inventor the one that made the show was a blacksmith who could beat a piece of metal white hot in 1 minute so he could light a cigarette with it.

The show has been around for a long time and is still very popular even though feeling toward the show host are very mixed (babbling, somewhat touchy kinda guy).
As another piece of trivia, the show is broadcasted live and has a long tradition of not keeping time, so the scheduled programmes after it tend to start at least 20 minutes late.

There are a lot of great bets on youtube, just search â€œwetten dassâ€.

By: stanleyk

stanleyk — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Loraan just kept thinking, “Why is she sitting in Kirk’s captain’s chair?!?!”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That is totally going to get her lots of dates.

By: Chinese Jet Pilot

Chinese Jet Pilot — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

When I was an exchange student in the 80′s I watched a German game show where a blindfolded contestant guessed the colors of colored pencils by tasting them.

The trick turned out to be a scam — he was peeking under his blindfold. The scandal made front-page headlines the next day.

By: dbarak

dbarak — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Is that a light saber in my mouth or are you just happy to see me?”

By: failix

failix — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“*Not actually German. Almost Yiddish.”

Actually, this is 100% German. The show is called “Wetten dass” and the host is Thomas Gottschalk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetten_dass

By: Cynical

Cynical — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“kleine mÃ¤dchen”, perhaps?

By: failix

failix — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh, I get it, you meant “kleige maidel” is yiddish. Sorry I read too fast. ^^

By: HarterFall

HarterFall — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The right german sentence is: “Dieses kleine MÃ¤dchen”, which means: “This little girl”.
And thats not an Bavarian, nor an Swabian dialect, its just the official “high German” language! The Bavarian dialect word would be “Madel”, the Swabian one “MÃ¤dle”, with many variations existing too!
@ Anon… its not that the german language has Yiddish words in it. True is that Yiddish has beside other languages also German roots!

By: Loraan

Loraan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I just kept thinking, “Why is she sitting in Kirk’s captain’s chair?!?!”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The first thing my husband noticed was Kirk’s chair too.

And that the audience was outrageously large for watching people suck on Legos. I have to wonder what else is on German TV.

By: nehpetsE

nehpetsE — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stanleyk, ever vigiliant, commented on Loraan’s continually thinking “Why is she sitting in Kirk’s captain’s chair?!?!” NehpetsE further pondered whether Loraan intended to imply that the chair in fact belonged to Kirk’s captain, and wondered who Kirk’s captain is.

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Actually, that phrase is Bavarian, if I remember correctly. A dialect of German that has some similarities to Yiddish.

By: The Mudshark

The Mudshark — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Actually, that phrase is Bavarian, if I remember correctly. A dialect of German that has some similarities to Yiddish.

I couldn’t say if it’s 100% correct Yiddish but I can guarantee it’s not Bavarian. Although both Yiddish and Bavarian have a bit of an earthy quality to them (especially Bavarian, which is pretty much the embodiment of earthy) that’s where the similarities end.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

it’s not Bavarian, nor any other German dialect I am aware of.

My guess would be ‘kleige’ coming from ‘klug’, which means ‘smart’.

For the interested: German does have some Yiddish Words in it, but you hear them very, very rarely. The most common one is probably ‘Mischpoke/Meschpoke’ which stands for you Familiy.

By: Chinese Jet Pilot

Chinese Jet Pilot — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wetten dass! How could I forget. Of course, thanks peterbruells.

I’m not too shocked that the two contests are so similar over a twenty-year span. The games on The Price is Right haven’t changed in decades.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Its “kleine madel” (which would be not yiddish but south german slang) or “kleine mÃ¤dchen” (which would be correct german).

By: peterbruells

peterbruells — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@jet pilot That was the same show, by the way. 1988. The scammer was from a know satirical newspaper.

By: querent

querent — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hawt!

By: Digilante

Digilante — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I fully support the development of such talents in young ladies.