Very true, Daphne, you’re perfectly right – coming from a graduate.

Don’t do it Baxxter – you’d be sorely missed.

Nispera li tolqot lili. Ghax xbajt. U m’ghandix il-bajd noqtol lili nnifsi. (anke ghaliex naghti sodisfazzjon lil hafna nies, u ma rridx)

Attent habib. Min jixtieq id-deni lil-garu jigi go daru. Sajjetta ma tafx fejn tolqot. Tista tolqot ukoll lilek u lill-ommok

@ Andrea

Oettinger definitely has potential but for me he has always been a “Witzfigur”. I know the surroundings of his home town (Ditzingen) well as my wife comes from a directly neighbouring suburb (Korntal) and her uncle was a Physics teacher, later co-Rector, at the school, which Oettinger visited. Actually, we also find Oettinger’s version of the Swabian dialect very funny, especially when combined with his voice pitch and speech rhythm.

@Leo
Speaking about languages: have you seen Herrn Oettinger, ‘our’ new man in Brussels?
As we say: worse than Westerwave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXPPu418C78

It’s worth watching it. He starts explaining in German that the English language is essential in every circumstance nowadays and then he demonstrates his own ‘English’ language skills (TC 00:26).

I suggest you change your moniker to ‘Twanny the twit’.

At least your choice of music is excellent.

Harry, apologies accepted.

I can assure you the he (one of my best friends, the engineer from CERN) is one of the last one on the block, and as you rightly said most of his work was done abroad. There were (are) tens before him and whilst some have done their work abroad, most of the others have published work that was done with miserly low budgets in Malta.

As Baxxter has noted, most of us have published internationally and only very little (and quite lately) news of this has trickled down into the local media reports (though soem of us had a number of surpirses when their work was reported in the international press). This might, unfortunately, have been our fault, as most of us used to shun the media, and some where in fact afraid of it.

In the past year of so, an effort is being made to put our work in the limelight but as I said previously, most of the Maltese media, wouldl be highly interested had I had a tattoo or two or strange piercings rather then my scientific work.

@ Andrea

The picture in the cover of the retail DVD-version, which is on sale in Germany, does show the swastika, but, as you say, the swastika is not visible in the German language trailer available on the internet.

I regret that I do not consider the German language trailer as too appropriate but my judgement may be prejudiced because I had seen the actual screen version release before I saw the trailer.