Credit: Kelly O
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[Left] “What’s ironic is the MOST famous one shouldn’t ever be our favorite. I love female scientists, Marie Curie… but she was French. I can’t say the one that’s most famous! Wait, scratch that. Wernher von Braun. He is like GOD. I’m a contractor for NASA. I went to college for aerospace engineering.”

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“Favorite GERMAN? Oh my… Um, Einstein was Austrian. Favorite German… Whichever one came up with their beer, ’cause that shit is DELICIOUS.”

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[Right] “Does it have to be someone you know? My favorite German is a friend of mine who lives in Germany whose real name is Rokus Harder… Like, “ROCK-US HARDER!”

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“Oh man. I’m a big soccer fan, so Franz Beckenbauer.”

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[Right] “Jürgen Klinsmann, the US Soccer coach!” [Center] “Who’s the female president… Angela Merkel? Freud, was he German? Depends on the empire… Martin Luther. He challenged the Catholic Church. Oh, and every dachshund!”

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“Whoa, geez, that’s a good question. My foreign exchange student Verena? She’s my favorite German. Whaddya pick, Hitler? Naaaaah. I love the sun. Yeah.”

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[Her] “I der know. I don’t know. I don’t… [Him] “Freud?”

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[Right] “I don’t like Germans. I only like the beer.”

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Anne Frank. Inspirational. Was going for humorous but decided to stick with inspirational.”

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“Can I say my great-grandfather Edward Meyer? He emigrated. And he played the accordion for us.”

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[Runner-up in the puppy contest] “Zzzzzzzzzzzz.” [no comment]

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[Left] “One in particular comes to mind, but he is NOT my favorite! Nora Keiser? Is Anne Frank German? I went to her house in Amsterdam.” [Right] “Oh, fucking what’s-her-name, Heidi Klum! She’s a hot German. She’s the hottest.”

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[Him] “Wernher von Braun” [Her] “If he was German, then Einstein.”

Kelly O—formerly a Stranger staff photographer, music writer, Drunk of the Week columnist, and more!—finished art school and a soul-crushing internship at a corporate advertising agency in Detroit,...