Aug. 12th, 2004

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I'm sure everyone's familiar with the current spamming technique which involves sprinkling messages (particularly subject lines) with obscure words in order to bamboozle spam filters. Most of these are merely odd, but every once in a while, one catches my fancy. This one did:
bilabial teat baud
So today's contest is: A free can of Spam® to the person who comes up with the best definition for "bilabial teat baud".
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I'm starting to get into this lousy microfilm I grudgingly agreed to do. It's got thirteen titles on it and the Powers That Be would like a catalogue record for as many as I can find. All thirteen are installments in the series "Die Reihe der deutschen Führer"; Heft 1 is the deutsche Führer selbst, old A.H. By midway through the series, however, we're getting into individuals I've never heard of before, such as Reichsbankpräsident Dr. Schacht.

In order to find out his given name, Hjalmar, I had to read the beginning of his biography, wherein patriotic citizens of the Dritte Reich are assured that he is "trotz seines dänischen Vornamens, Deutscher von Geburt. Nur die Vorfahren seiner Mutter stammten aus Dänemark." That is, he's a German born and bred, despite the fact that insignificant distaff ancestors crossed the border from Denmark. (Or maybe the border crossed them, seeing as he was born in Schleswig.)

However, searching in the authority file (it's not as intriguing as the name makes it sound, believe me), I discovered that the full, established form of his name is "Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht". Explain that away, you Nazi biographers! Funny that they don't even mention it...
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