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The Tale of the Burping German
Ned Nedmiller, King of Beers 


Monday, Nov. 26, 2001
Like that faithful old pisser of a national monument out there in them park, one could always set their watch to the Great Burping German of Pistro Falls, Pennsylvania. When Ned was a boy he would often go to see that German down at the bookstore or the dog track to ask him questions or just to stand there and stare in wonderments. People came from far and near and places too near to be far or too far to be near just to see that eighth belching wonder of the world, as he sat with a little schnauzer dog named Blueten on his lap and burped the merry day away.

Some said that one could peek into the future by listening careful to them reverberant conflagrations of air and sausage fumes, like lookin’ close at tea leaves or the part in Teddy Wetzembaum’s hair. Others waxed and waned poetic ‘bout them ringers like they was the music of the night, a waltz of the human iced with the frosting of the divine. Still others called him a big fat pig of a slob and wished he’d eat his dinner in some other restaurant. But nobody not here nor there denied that he belched, nor argued that it weren’t frequent.

Once a scientist-type tried to catch one of the Burping German’s belches in a great big balloon, like the kind them kiddies tie to their half-formed fists with a band of rubber and then proceed to punch at the thing until one of them is the loser. Needless to say, once he had that balloon he didn’t have to wait long for the German to belch, and when he did, that scientist was lifted up in the air like a hot air balloon pilot. And we didn’t see none of him for eight more months until one day he floated on back into town dressed up like a geisha girl and with two black eyes. Nobody never did ask him what happened on his trip when he was riding that magical belch but nobody argued that he hadn’t caught a burp in a balloon nor that he didn’t fly away like a squirrel taped to a blimp.

Some folks, like the owner of the opera house who’d never once put on an opera that wasn’t punctuated by rafter-rattling burps, or the dental assistant who’d had her fillings shook out when she got too close to one of the Burping German’s grade-A rumblers, and possibly the German’s upstairs neighbors also, thought that we should run that German out of town by torchlight for disturbing the public peace.

But the rest of us remembered all that the Burping German had done for us, ever since the day many a year ago when he arrived in town mysteriously, being burped up out of the belly of a beached whale and all down by the shore. And unlike the Sneezing Chinaman of Cinder Nook or the Flatulent Finn of North Tonken, the Burping German never stopped giving back to them peoples, teaching little know-nothing children how to burp whenever they asked, and delivering a special belch sermon in church on Sundays.

So them next time you hear a sound not quite like a goat and more roundish than a foghorn, one that gives your earlobes a tickle and makes your hair feel electrimafied, before you go to your cabinet for that elephant gun remember that it may just be the Great Burping German of Pistro Falls, stopping by to see if you have any baking soda to spare.


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