Hello sublist,

here comes a story which was recently seen in German TV (in the so called Harald Schmidt show). I try to translate into English.

Best wishes Otto

*****************************************

A recent opinion poll in Germany has shown that German parents read less and less books (or fairy tales) to their children. This is a very sad development. However, this tendency can be well explained and forgiven since... (see below).

Suppose that a father reads to his small child the fairy tale "Froschkoenig" (i.e. the king who was transformed by a witch into a frog) and if he comes to the sentence saying: "And when the princess kissed the ugly looking frog then all of a sudden the frog became a most beautiful prince". And then the child will ask the following question: "And this Pokemon cannot do anything else???"