Hit me with your rhythm stick!

[muckefuck]

During the inevitable multilingual pop culture geekery that follows from any meeting between me and aadroma, I baffled everyone with a reference to the inimitable song stylings of albino German sensation Heino.

Trying to clarify by tossing in the word Schlager only made things worse. Eventually, aadroma figured out what I meant, but he said that he'd always seen that word written Schläger. I find this curious, since a Schläger is something for bashing with--a baseball or cricket bat, a tennis racquet, a kind of sabre used by German fraternities--or someone who administers the bashing. Germans, AFAIK, never confuse the two. Does the rest of the world?

I tried to search for instances of Schläger for Schlager online, but couldn't come up with any. Does anyone know how to get Google not to ignore diacritics during a search? Does anyone have pointers to a song site that spells the word with an umlaut?

(BTW, danbearnyc, this picture is not to punish you for that horrible Hasselhoff icon you posted in comments some time ago and it's very petty of you to think so.)

Edit: Speaking of beautiful love songs, here are the complete lyrics to "Rory Rides Me Raw". As you can see, aadroma, I was wrong about the artist: The Vaselines, not Sebadoh. (I think the short-circuit connexion is SubPop.)

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Re: Wie der Heino uns vorsingt

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

That sounds about right for the Teutonic temperament.