Kaspar Wowser
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Kaspar Wowser owes me a new iPad. You should warn us in advance to put down our coffee mugs and swallow the coffee first.
Anyway, it’s not ‘das Viggels’. ‘Das’ is nominative and accusative singular neuter. It should be ‘die’, and nouns ending in ‘el’ in the singular usually take no ending in the plural, unless it’s a foreign noun taken unchanged from the original language. ‘Die Bars’ versus ‘die Viggel’.
Not sure whether Kaspar Wowser goes over my head or under my feet. Either way I seldom see whatever point it tries to make. What is the connection between mock German and the very non German team leading the Greens? Is it something to do with the Greens being strong in Germany? Or not? Sorry about Wayne’s iPad. I’ll look after it if you like, it’ll be safer.