🚀 go-pugleaf

Bill Keyes aka the Ferret-Meister wrote:
> =

> Michael Olsen <glassguy@lamar.ColoState.EDU> writes:
> >OK, I'll bite!  Mein deutsch ist sehr schlecht und I've asked a native
> >German sprecher who says it's not German.  I've also seen a couple of
> >bumperstickers with variations all ending in -gruben.
> >Was ist die bedeutsamme auf diese wort, bitte?
> =

> I always saw it as "funkengruven"... ie "funk 'n' groovin'"
> Like a pun on fahrvergnugen from the old VW commercials.
From "Skeleton Key, A Dictionary for Deadheads", by Steve Silberman & David=
 Sheck:

Fukengr=FCven =80 Say, "f*ckin' groovin!" A bumpersticker conceived during =
the summer of '90 =

by Geoffrey Miller, when he found himself on [grateful dead] tour with no m=
oney. "I was =

in the parking lot and saw the stickers that said 'Darkstarvergnugen' and =

'Philvergnugen.' I thought of groovin', which was something people could re=
late to."

Miller's original plan was to make "Fukengr=FCven" t-shirts, but they would=
 have been too =

bulky to hitchike with, so he brought a Volkswagen Farvergnugen decal to Wa=
lt Fedorich, =

a sticker-and-sign printer in Binghampton, NY, who promised he could print =
high-quality =

stickers in a few days. Miller altered the design of the VW original, addin=
g the lines =

to look like "trails."

The story goes on to tell about how he sould out his entire allotment of on=
e thousand =

stickers during four shows. Now you know, "the rest of the story."

[Typos are mine, all mine!]

/danno