My chosen name is "Toog." My family name, "Weinzaepflen," means "little wine cork." It's not exactly German; it comes from a Swiss-German dialect. My home town, Mulhouse, has been in the last centuries alternately Swiss, German and French. If you walk in the streets of Mulhouse (I couldn't say "do that," it's not a very interesting city), there's still written on the manhole covers "Muhlhausen," and it comes from the German period. The main street, "Rue du Sauvage" (Wild Man Street) was renamed during WW2, "Adolph Hitler Strasse." When the nazis found out why everyone laughed, they decided to translate the original name in German, "Wilde Mann Strasse." The city's main square was decorated in the early years of the XXth century with a huge statue called "Schweissdissi", ("the man who sweats"). It represents a hard working man wiping the sweat on his forehead with one hand. The statueis naked with a piece of material on the colossal penis. It was placed so that the official people, when they had to do a speech from the city's house balcony, spoke to a monumental ass owned by a 30 foot high bronze giant. The statue continues its hard life in a park, the back of the statue correctly hidden by the trees. >>>