The octopus with the ability to predict World Cup winners has become a news sensation in Taiwan. The octopus' predictions have apparently irked the German sports audience as well. This afternoon on Taiwan television the satirical program "The Big Party" 全民最大黨 offered a skit featuring a Hitler lookalike speaking his own imaginary German and suggesting what should be done with the octopus. Of course, his suggestion was to mix up a platter of sashimi to enjoy after buying a new BMW. If any German citizens ever saw the skit, they would be both insulted and disheartened. How sad they would feel to see that BMW and Hitler remain the most obvious icons, in the mind of Taiwanese and perhaps the world, of Germany.
The sometimes lunatic and often unreasonable rants of an American "big nose" living in Taiwan.