The whole request is no big surprise. The imminent bankruptcy of GM could endanger seriously Opel, although Opel is still profitable. Once suppliers would ask to be paid first, Opel would be toast. So there may be some reason to assist here to avoid that in the end Opel goes down because GM deserves bankruptcy.

Rape? It may have been voluntary, to protect themselves from worse, but it probably wasn’t willing.

[Insert exception to not being willing about someone's mother here]

Lenny Bruce said, in the 1960s, that Europeans hate America because our dad’s fucked their moms for chocolate bars.

As far as what sex is, I’m sure there are millions of people who go to sleep thinking they just had sex but have spouses who disagree.

Tranquilizer gun, please.

Ah! That hits the spot. Thank you. Good night!

They even have entitlement beggars now.

@Rebbe: Yep, that’s me. Bad-Taste-Bert. Next up: Jokes about rape. (Didn’t I abuse that somewhere already? Even “gang-raped at the hands of” something or other … My mind falters.)

PS: I was booked on Pan-Am 103. My usual last flight out of LHR. As usual, I changed my reservation. Last laugh. Very funny.

PPS: Enlighten me: If the German Blonde goes down on the Russian soldier, is it rape? Is it if v.v.? Bill said it didn’t even qualify as sex. My mind wanders.

@kman RF, we need to get all your GM Death Watch series into more, um, “mainstream” hands. I’m opposed to that. A 747 over Kamchatka wouldn’t survive in mainstream hands.

This removes the civiliant component.

Yes, this was off-topic.

On topic: a small part of me feels bad for Demant, who must be under the absurd order from Wagoner to “keep asking until you get something, anything.”

That’s the plan, GM?

RF, we need to get all your GM Death Watch series into more, um, “mainstream” hands.

As for the reference, it wasn’t wildly specific. And “like a 707 over the Kola Penninsula” definitely doesn’t have the same ring.

Also, Dr Strangelove was making light of Cold War madness in 1964. Let’s keep our perspective.

I hope nobody with relatives on KAL-007 reads this post. Bertel, that’s in really poor taste.

How about:

“goes down faster than a German blonde on a Russian soldier, circa April 1945″

If we can joke about murder, what’s wrong with joking about rape?

I think you mean €200m? Otherwise this bailout business is just getting ridiculous, heh.

The horror, the horror…