/. is funny even when it doesn’t necessarily mean to be funny.

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well, the guy who submitted the story uses Fahrvergnuegen as his nick, so maybe he thinks in German. . .

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Rather not. “Fahrvergnügen” is as far as I can remember some buzzword introduced in VW in the US to describe the joy of driving (that’s what it means, translated) one of their cars.

But that’s about it. A buzzword. If you even say that word here, you’d get veeeeery strange looks. It simply has no meaning and sounds just plain weird.

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Issat so. Always sounded like Far-Fig-Newton to me. Like a cookie — err, excuse me, fruit and cake — that’s just barely out of reach.