At 14.46 31.1.1997 +0100, you wrote:

: artist who 
: writes and draws gay-comics. While I'm not a König-fanatic I still like his
: comis quite a lot.
: (no, you don't have to be a gay to like his comics ^_^)

Indeed.  He is so damn good, he had me rolling on the floor
several times.  I've got a few of his comics and am aiming to
collect all of them.  One of his books even got made into a major
motion picture that was the highest grossing film in the german
cinemas in 1995.  (They "cleaned" it up quite a bit, though)

*nod* to my great shame I haven't seen it.

Hmmm, that's very interesting..  So the romance was more upsetting
than the sex?  What does that say?  That two men seeking pleasure
together is more acceptable than two men in love?

No. It says that it is easier to think them as perverts than actually 
admit oneself that two men can love each other romantically.

BTW, did you ever see Koenig's stories about Konrad & Paul?  These
are two "married" gay men with extremely different personalities
who somehow manage to build a long-lasting realtionship around
those differences because deep down they really love each other.

I have. They are funny. I especially love that one where one(Konrad?) of them 
demonstrates his "psionic" powers. ROTFL!

: BTW:If you got some ascii-s**t in Ralf K.'s name the second letter should be
: a o with dots on
: the top. If I remember correctly it is called o-umlaut.

To avoid that, you can just use "oe" instead.  It's a valid
alternative for umlaut characters (at least in German).

Since a and o-umlauts (they have different names though...) are used in
Finnish too,
I know about this problem. And there is no friggin way I'm going to start using 
ae and oe (and they aren't valid alternatives in Finnish.) instead of ä and ö. 
I remember reading telegram from America that was sent somewhere in
mid-seventies. 

"maeaettae" Urgh! Urghurghurghurghurgh! 

Oh well, I always could have used Konig instead.

BTW. What does "Kudos" mean? I know it means tissue (or fabric) in Finnish,
but...
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