After watching 3 or 4 episodes of Germany’s equivalent of
American Idol, Deutschland sucht den Superstar, Julie and I began to wonder why
certain people were being equated to hammers.
It seemed that being called a hammer was a good thing based on the
performances we watched (Yeah, great performance….you are the ‘hammer’!), but
we still were not really sure what it meant.
After looking into it a bit more we found out it is the equivalent of
“you are awesome” or “you are the bomb” in German.
We now have the phrase deeply imprinted in our brains after
this weekend. To back track a bit - we
had the dogs shaved two weeks ago at the dog salon across the street to prepare
for summer. Apparently the people here
prefer the shorter hair because we’ve noticed that since the haircut, the girls
get a lot more attention than normal.
Normally, we only get asked about the dogs once a month or so. However, with their new haircuts someone
stops us every 5 minutes to ask which breed they are (mostly Sadie), or simply
remark ‘aww… süß’ (aww…. sweet).
To bring this blog full circle: we were walking through
Nymphenburg park this weekend and the dogs were attracting a lot of attention. At least 5 people stopped us to ask about the
dogs during our 15-minute loop through the park. We even had people talk about the dogs in
Spanish at one point (¡Mira! ¡Mira!).
But nothing can beat the one guy we saw pass by on a bicycle, loop
around to chase us down, and proclaim that Sadie is ‘der Hammer’!
We always knew we had amazing dogs, but we didn’t realize
Sadie was as good as the semi-finalists we watch on reality TV. But I don’t know if Sadie likes all of the
attention. She started wearing
sunglasses this week to disguise herself from the paparazzi.
P.S. For those wondering about poor Rita – before the
haircut, she was always the more popular pup in Germany. Her time will come again. Plus she won't cooperate for a sunglasses photo shoot.
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