From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 12:36:45 MDT
Hubert Mania:
>Amara, don`t you worry! Redemption is just around the corner!
Woo Hoo! I'm saved! (I'm sorry Serafino, but Hubert just offered
me guilt-free redemption.)
>Pretty soon I will launch a start up, a very special heavenly
>kingdom called "Stamp Free At Last". Any foreign citizen who
>has managed to survive German bureaucracy for one year and can
>display at least two dozen stamps in her personal papers has
>proved to be able to accomplish *anything* else on earth and
>will be admitted to a very special kind of kingdom whose
>features will be announced on launching day.
And we want all of our friends who lost their souls in Stamp Hell to
join us .. yes.. JOIN US, in the _NEW_ STAMP FREE KINGDOM.
<this is when we begin to sing>
>It's all top secret still, but I can promise,
<Ohhhhhhhh peeeeeeople .... Heeeeee prommmmmmises ......>
>there will be no dull offices,
<noooooooooo dulllllllll offffffffffices.........>
>neither stamps nor stamp colour, no passports, visas
<neither stamps, nor stamp colour, no passports, no visaaaaaaaaaaaas>
>and - as a gift -
<Hallelujah!>
>after you filled in just one dozen admittance forms -
<Hallelujah!> <Hallelujah!>
>a Tshirt with the imprint "I Survived German BureauCRAZY"
<tears of happiness flow down our redeemed cheeks>
>so doorman Damien and all the supposedly lucky ones he has already
>welcomed in his outdated kingdom will start screaming and begging
>and come crawling on their knees to be an inhabitant of our fine
>paradise -
<ooooo! I can't stand it, I'm so excited!>
>And we will be generous enough to embrace them all...
<Hallelujah!> <Hallelujah!> <Hallelujah!>
>after they filled in the required forms, of course. Could you
>please organize the supply of forms and stamps and stuff?
Oooooo Oooooooo Ooooooh ! Can I order everything from abroad ?
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If you've never meandered through the Zollamt ('Customs office' for
you nonGerman speaking folks), browse through their website a bit:
Here's the section of incoming products (in English)
http://www.zoll-d.de/english_version/b0_passenger_traffic/e0_vub/index.html
Besides the typically prohibited stuff, they have a cute picture of
a happy dog informing us that we can't bring dangerous dogs into
Germany. And did you know that you can't bring in potatoes and vine
leaves from nonEU countries? It seems to me that their
'unconstitutional literature' section could be interpreted to mean
almost anything, however, foodstuff may be imported into Germany, if
it is "absolutely harmless for health" (Wheee!), and they have a
funny translation of the protection of intellectual property rights.
Have fun!
Amara
(from the Stamp Free Kingdom)
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