if you don't speak german and english...

I had a dream last night that will probably only be funny if you speak German, and maybe not even then.

I was sitting outside of the variety store near my parents house, reading some Russian gossip magazines. Instead of photos of beautiful actors at parties and stuff, they were full of stereotypical Russian housekeeping women named Olga or whatever who looked like they could beat up a bear with one hand. Mostly pictures of them in their communist-issue, block-apartment-kitchens, plucking chickens and making vodka soup or what have you. Anyway, one article had a shot of one of these scary-ass type women walking down a nice looking, European street. The headline was about how this woman, who had kidnapped a figure skater, was now free and living as a citizen in Germany.

Now here is the part that's maybe funny if you speak German. My knowledge of German is less than rudimentary. I don't know the word for citizen so my brain made one up for this headline. "Kidnapper of Figure Skater Now a Freiwiehler in Germany."

So, small German lesson here, Frei means free or freedom. Wiehler means nothing as far as I know but with German pronunciation it sounds like Veeler or Wheeler. So the German word for citizen that I made up is a mix of German/German pronunciation of English that essentially equals freewheeler. Ah man, it's so layered. I think only my sister, mother and father will understand why this is funny...