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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"It has to be in the correct region of Germany."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] MelastSB 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yes, about how champagne must come from the Champagne region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling wine. I don't know where the exact quote comes from though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It also references Germany, since the word "genocide" was invented to describe the Nazi crimes against European Jews (the Holocaust).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Explaining things for the slow children takes away from the humour.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are worse atrocities in life

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Like relativistic equivocation?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

champagne must come from the Champagne region of France

for something that's been so extensively memed I would have thought Knowyourmeme would have an entry for this. I'm not finding one, though. Even a "research paper" about the subject doesn't pin down the earliest time it was used in this way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It's just a factoid. The quote itself in this form seems to be from Wayne's World.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yes, to the anti-semite police who will tell you with a straight face that you're making the Holocaust seem better than it was by calling anything else a genocide.