Re: Schalke 04

["Kelly Higgins" <kelly_higgins@cox.net>]

I was suspecting there was some kind of inside joke going on...............
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike & Diane Wise" <apistowise@fgn.net>
To: <apisto@listbox.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: Schalke 04


> Juergen,
>
> Just to let everyone know, A. sp. Schalke 04 was introduced in the April
'02
> issue of DATZ. It was meant to be an April Fool's Day joke. They tend to
put an
> April Fool's Day joke article in every April issue. They digitally changed
the
> colors of a female apisto to show blue bars on a white body - Blue &
White, the
> colors of the Schalke 04 football (soccer) club. I mentioned Koslowski
because
> his favorite team lost to Schalke in the latest championship games & it
upset
> him greatly. Max & I knew this, so I was joking with him.
>
> Mike Wise
>
> Scheele Juergen wrote:
>
> > ...I love this list...
> >
> > Although Schalke 04 is my favorite football club in Germany ! :-)
> > The name A. spec. "Schalke 04" was given to this unidentified species
> > from the publisher of DATZ, because, the DATZ is edited and published
> > in Gelsenkirchen, one of the suburbs of Gelsenkirchen is Schalke.
> > 04 means the football club was founded in 1904.
> >
> > The only pictures I am aware of where published in the DATZ.
> > No follow up as far as I know.
> > The original story was even talking about a color morph, albino kind of
> > situation.
> > Who could survive in the wild anyway with these kind of colors;
> > Blue & White
> >
> > ....wild caught  in " frisches Veltins"  :-)
> >
> > Juergen
> >
>
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