Subject: Baader-Meinhof phenomenon

Date: Sat Jan 3 15:21:38 2009
User: ix
Message:
in the Illinois governors thread, snowy uses the word Schadenfreude, with which I am unfamiliar, but a comment by firenze that she's not surprised the germans have a word for that (taking pleasure in the misfortune of others, definition provided by mabb) leads me to think of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, and I wonder if I will encounter the word Schadenfreude in the near future. So I go to wikipedia to make sure I understand the whole Baader-Meinhof thing, and there's the word Schadenfreude. I open another guinness.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon

Date: Sat Jan 3 15:34:06 2009
User: Snowguy
Message:
Funny. I wasn't aware of that term/phenomenon. In fact, seeing it I was suddenly put to mind of the Badder-Meinhof Gang.

Link: The Baader-Meinhof Gang

Date: Sat Jan 3 15:34:30 2009
User: nug
Message:
Achtung hijack!

Date: Sat Jan 3 16:15:34 2009
User: ix
Message:
i believe that someone who reads this will encounter one of the following words very soon: godel, escher, bach, joeygray

Date: Sat Jan 3 16:32:05 2009
User: julia
Message:
oh gosh I hope not, joeygray scares me did you hear that? .shiver I had to look up the word illiberal. If I see that word again in the next 24 hours, I'll report back.

Date: Sat Jan 3 16:45:22 2009
User: olblue
Message:
M C Escher makes my eyes do funny things.

Date: Sat Jan 3 18:19:52 2009
User: birdhaus
Message:
actually "Schadenfreude" was prominately mentioned in TVs "Two and a Half Men" by the Rose character who translated it in English as "Ha Ha" I felt I needed to add this tidbit as it was just on TV the other night, my apologies for going over my quota. Tomorrow I'll forgo posting at all.

Date: Sat Jan 3 21:52:39 2009
User: Snowguy
Message:
I hate the whole illiberal pack 'o ye

Date: Sun Jan 4 03:11:47 2009
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Ok. Wow. Get this...... I have a fried with whom this phenomenon figures prominently. So, early today, I sent the Wikipedia link to this person saying "We're in Wikipedia!" So.....tonight we happened to be watching the Sundance Channel, and went to their "On Demand" section, and TOTALLY by chance picked out a movie to watch, "The Protagaonist", which is a very interesting documentary about the lives of four men, and of which neither of us had ever heard. I won't go into detail of the movie, but one of the four men was Hans-Joachim Klein, member of the "Revolutionary Cells", an offshoot of, you guessed it, the Baader-Meinhof Group, and so of course that was mentioned in the movie. So.....Groucho, or whoever wants to hazard a guess, calculate the odds that a Baader-Meinhof phenomenon would occur about the Baader-Meinhof Group, ON THE VERY DAY THIS THREAD WAS STARTED!!

Date: Sun Jan 4 10:16:16 2009
User: bu11sgits
Message:
"calculate the odds that a Baader-Meinhof phenomenon would occur about the Baader-Meinhof Group, ON THE VERY DAY THIS THREAD WAS STARTED!!" Even money.

Date: Thu Dec 15 18:38:11 2016
User: ix
Message:
earlier today i was wondering large france and germany are, compared to the united states, and found out that the state closest in size to france is texas, and for germany it's montana. was just watching reggie watts on netflix and he mentioned he's from montana and that it has a land mass the size of germany.