jon_j_rambo Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Alright guys, time to vote for your favorite Germans. Mine are: 1) Martin Luther --- Dude meant business with his beliefs. 2) Nina --- 99 Luftballons 3) Dirk Nowitiski --- He can't play any defense, but the Dallas Mavs are more exciting to play due to his run & gun shooting. 4) Schindler's List --- WW-2 Fritz buried in Israel, a total Legend. 5) Berhard Langer --- Great golf game, made a run at the Master's a couple of years ago at age 50 or something. Must be related to DragonSlow, because he gets penalized all the time for slowplay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 In no particular order... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bertolt Brecht Martin Heidegger Walter Benjamin Karl Friedrich Schinkel Frei Otto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuniworth Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 1. Albert Einstein 2. Karl Marx 3. Ludwig van Beethoven 4. Willy Brandt 5. Lothar Matthäus 6. Johann Sebastian Bach 7. Franz Beckenbauer 8. Rammstein 9. Erich Maria Remarque Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyJohn Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 JS Bach, of course. If we're counting Austrians as Germans, then Beethoven, Mahler, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner and Johann Strauss with his ditzy watzes. Einstein Franz Joseph Haydn Brahms Mozart Robert Schumann Richard Wagner Thomas Mann Goethe Werner von Braun Werner Heisenberg, especially if he actually did hold back the German Atomic Bomb program. Arminius (16 BC-AD 21), in Germany aka Hermann der Cherusker, for his defeat of the Romans. Karl Marx And the nameless thousands who could have become nazis but worked against them instead, most of the resistence members losing their lives in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuniworth Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Found this quote by Rambo over at panzerliga; "Yo, the USA doesn't have any players, it is very strange! There are 300,000,000 people in the USA, is there even anybody playing here except Liam & myself? Even during the original release of SC, the USA players were old men & kids......no Legends like myself. The German dudes like to kick ass, part of the culture I bet. Germany also has 2nd largest economy in the world after the USA, amazing! Germany had population of 100,000,000 at the start of WW-2, another amazing statistic to me. Germany kicks ass, you guys are serious ass kickers, damn near took over the planet. Now, if there was a competition, Germany would win, plus you have Yoda Terif." Dammit you gone full out german worshipper? Damn your more bunta-lover than JerseyJohn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuniworth Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Dude, that quote is some serious ass-licking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyJohn Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Originally posted by Kuniworth: ... Dammit you gone full out german worshipper? Damn your more bunta-lover than JerseyJohn. Glad it was you that said it because I was thinking the same thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuniworth Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Yes thats no fake-quote either. Rambo wtf is this????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sombra Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Well Rambo is clever. Plays where most of the best players of SC are still active. Keeps himself fresh. :cool: Alas, good SC players in the US are hard to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin P. Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Otto von Bismarck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Hey I'm as good as Rambo<as Axis anyways> And I'm half Americano Best German, Erwin Rommel........He holds the spirit of the German General during World War II. He was neither political affiliated either way but to what he was forced to do to make Rank. He didn't allow SS men into N.Africa and he was overall likely the best German General at least by reputation in the 20th century. Think of taking that lousy group of nothing and nearly conquoring all of North Africa from very hard and determined Limeys. That wasn't an easy feat. He was clever to flood the marshes in Normandy and had he been present and fully in control who knows how long the war would've been protracted, until 1946? Whoa, good thing he was no more early on.. An A-Bomb could've hit Germany!!! Thank Hitler for one thing he was so homicidal/suicidal he ended before the big one hit Europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xwormwood Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Dietrich Bonhoeffer Martin Luther Geschwister Scholl Albert Schweitzer Johann Sebastian Bach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_j_rambo Posted January 26, 2006 Author Share Posted January 26, 2006 Adding... Handel --- Dude wrote in a month, the Messiah Max --- anti-Nazi boxer Braun --- thanks for the electric razor. Hinderburg --- nice ballons. Guttenberg --- nice printer, was he a bunta? Also, I want to recognize any dude with the name of Helmut, Wolfgang, or Fritz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyazinth von Strachwitz Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Alrite, guys.. here comes a link to german wikipedia.. it is about a TV show about the "best" german. It is in german, but you will be able to identify the names. Rgds http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsere_Besten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottosmops Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 My favorite Germans (Austrians and Swiss included), no particular order Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Carl Friedrich Gauss Leonhard Euler Karl R. Popper Ludwig Wittgenstein and my favorite Americans (Canada included) Hubert Cater Donald E. Knuth Robert J. Fischer JerseyJohn Condoleezza Rice Rambo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Dave Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Boris Becker, Best tennis player I ever saw (... haven't watched a jot of it since he retired - why settle for all them... mediocre rest?) This guy was like a young jungle cat Almost stilled For the fierce finishing pounce: And, Max Wertheimer, Founder of "Gestalt Psychology" (... our perceptions are naturally and necessarily DIFFERENT from the SENSATIONS that comprise them) _______________ Ottosmops Popper was hip to that failed super Ego trip, ah, that quasi religion known as Science, as well. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Bolt Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Lili Von Shtupp = Madaline Kahn in Blazing Saddles. Siegfried von Kappelhoff = Bernie Kopell in Get Smart Sgt Schultz in Hogan's Hereos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synystr Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Nobody votes Bismarck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoat Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Originally posted by synystr: Nobody votes Bismarck? Someone already did. Goetz von Berlichingen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyJohn Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Ottosmops, As one of the Americans mentioned I'd like to say appreciated. One of the others on there, Robert J. Fischer, was one of my childhood idols. I grew up in Brooklyn when he was a 14 year old winning the U. S. Championship (the real one, not the Jr version) wearing sneakers, dungarees and a T-shirt. Happily I was able to meet him a few times back in the mid-sixties. That was in his tailor made suit days, before he became noticiably eccentric and defeated Spassky (the first time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DalmatiaPartisan Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Nobody votes Nietzche???? Great to see Remarque on the list-but behind dirty Lothar Matthaus??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 LOL, interesting votes. Germans? Heh, a very strong group. Remeber, English has a lot of German in it, heavily influenced by Saxons. Throw on some Norman and native Briton Norwegian and Dutch has a lot of German in it so does Austrian, Swiss<in places> and Luxembourg... That is a large region... Historically next to Russia one of the largest ManPower pools of Europe I suppose why so many brilliant people would come from there. It is in the end just a place with lots of People, now nolonger what it was however how many Americans have Germanic Ancestory(I) OH and I borrowed Boris Becker's Serve Even though thank the French or else noone would've kept the Germans in Check over the past 2 centuries, we do owe them that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tagwyn Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 Neitzche was certifiable. Yes I have read some of his ranting lunacy. What is so great about Karl Marx? Rambo is certifiable as well. The legend in his own mind. Tag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuniworth Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 dude... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_j_rambo Posted January 30, 2006 Author Share Posted January 30, 2006 It figures Puniworth loves Karl Marx. Although Kuni "tries to be cool", deep down inside, he's a Commie...who'd love to take my right to Faith, Gun, Land, Money, Property, Work Ethic, Flag, SC purchased copy (I'm sure his was copied), and anything else to hand over to the mass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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