Oh no @SILVIA ā¦ It was a lionpig 
The thing made it to the news here obviously as wellā¦
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I just could not believe how similar they look, its uncanny. Does this mean I actually saw a lion sprinting across a nearby field in Normandy, a few years ago and it wasnāt a Sanglier as I thought ? Its a funny old world.
I still get these mixed up, we have lots of hippos in France 
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One summer my husband and I were out in the woods at a high vantage point with binoculars just to see what we could see and a large badger with assorted little badgers walked across the trail 100 feet or so in front of us. Not quite a wolverine, but they are mean if cornered.
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No such here luckily, but I heard that badgers can be a bit nasty.
We usually only have the occasional ābear spotted downtownā warning here, something like once per summer or so - and then itās in fact a bear and not a boar 
Still, Iād rather encounter a bear in the woods (as long as the bear doesnāt have cubs) than a wolverine 
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What do you think, would Silvia have a holiday job as head of the German police? 
What surprises me the most is that they still say āmaybe notā here and in the east because Stevie Wonder can still say when he zooms in that itās not a lion and sees those piggies standing there 
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I heard that from my girl this afternoon and she immediately said ā¦" ooo you certainly would have done that too" ā¦well 
ā¦ absolutely yes 
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Now I start being confused, they put all those resources and effort to hunt a boar, mistaking it for a lion?! 
Wellā¦this is actually very funny!
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And that song brings back memories 
,I āsangā(/shout) that a lot in the discotheques in Italy (here I hardly ever went to a discotheque), while the music is on my wife also half joins in with the lyrics ā¦eins zwei polizeiā¦and shouts āthat was a long time agoā,
you still often hear here (I donāt say thatā¦only think ) eins zwei when cops walk by ā¦ thanks
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Hi Nicole,
I just read your word liondog again, and I had to looked it up (I thought of a made-up word 
)ā¦ there is a very good chance that I am now typing something that makes a (bigger) fool of myselfā¦ the first picture is a dog with a wig, that was actually the joke ā¦ and I also expected something like that to happen in Germany in one way or anotherā¦did you know those dog wigs?..I just had to ask
Because the first time when I saw this joke incorporated into a much better joke (unfortunately I was in very exceptional time pressure) I couldnāt stop laugh and that this really existed and people bought thisā¦
for example:
dog wig
Greetingsā¦
I think, I have seen something like this before, yes Amazing, how much attention they paid to detail, including lion ears and tailtip
Now there will surely be a new market for people wanting to dress up their minipigs as lions. Excitement guaranteed
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I remember it on the radio, I was still young for discos in my daddyās eyes 
(both)ā¦whereabout in Italy did you come for your holidays?
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Trento-Levico Terme
For almost 40 years (not in the disco the first yearsā¦and your father was right 
) ā¦2 small discos in the town of Levico where Sisyās summer palace was located where we had our privately rented house 100 to 300 meters from (changed a few times) ā¦and a big one in Pergine valsugana and a few times in an exclusive disco in Milan ā¦
But the best times spent at the lake lago di Levico
Greetings from a rainy and chill (16.1c) Holland and have all a nice and sort of cool sunday
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Havenāt heard that for ages
Wonāt comment on this 
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Anyone who remembers Wild Boyz (Steve O/Joe Rogan/Jackass)?
@SILVIA Be happy, that there are only wild boars under your balcony
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No Boars are carnivores thoughā¦ So, in case @SILVIA has prosciutto-hams dangling from her balcony, it will attract a horde of hungry piggies 
Ach ja, thinking about it, I am happy that I was only attacked by a flock of hungry seagulls at the festival in Helsinki some weeks ago. An invasion of angry boars would have been something else
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We should call this area of Just Chatting āContinental Cornerā
It seems the silly season has arrived and all my European friends have packed in their tedious practicing to go on safariā¦
Weiter soā¦ 
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Just wait and see, what will happen when a horde of lionpigs will make their way across the sea to you 
Some typical āSommerlochā-story. I remember, when I was still living in Germany many years ago, there was similar excitement when someone had spotted a crocodile in a lakeā¦ And then there was āBruno der ProblembƤrā (Bruno was actually real however)ā¦
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I need a Safari Guitar! Still unsure about the design. Zebra or leo pattern?
I can tell youā¦Brian writes or performs a new, very special song, the āLionpig Bluesā
I live in the region where Bruno was seen several times and killed some sheep. Exactly, where Iām hiking with our dog regularly. That was a VERY special feelingā¦
Donāt forget the snapping turtle and all those wolvesā¦
Iām going slightly madā¦
Back to my obligations!
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