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After her father’s death, sensible and cheerful Mma Precious Ramotswe sells her inherited cattle and opens the country’s only female-owned detective agency. She hires Botswana Secretarial College graduate (97% in the final exams!) Grace Makutsi as her assistant. Together they solve problems big and small with their wisdom, big hearts, and endless cups of red-bush tea. Meanwhile, Mma Ramotswe’s best friend, mechanic Mr. JLB Matekoni, hopes for a chance to win her heart… Based on Alexander McCall Smith’s best-selling book series.
A news story about the German “Sendung mit der Maus”, roughly translated to “Programme (or show) with the mouse”, which is a very famous German kids tv show running for 50 years now.
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This brings back memories, I grew up with “der Maus”, my favourite was the elephant, perhaps if the mouse and his friends spoke, I was better in speaking German? 
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The average age of the “Maus” viewers is around 40. I think it is really difficult these days to find a tv show with more or less the same concept for such a long time:
- the two languages in the intro (German and any other one, even Klingon one day),
- the stories (stripes in the toothpaste is a classic),
- and of course the mouse/elephant/duck cartoons (especially the ultra flexible tail of the mouse)
It did not change compared to the time when I was a kid myself which is already 40 years ago.
Was it translated to Dutch or with subtitles?
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No, my family watched a lot of British and German tv, because back then Dutch TV were just three channels, so German, Belgian and British public broadcasters have been the standard package for I can remember in the Netherlands.
So I watched die Sendung mit der Maus in the late seventies and early eighties on WDR or ZDF, I don’t remember which one it was. (Was it on both back then?)
As a family, we watched Derrick and der Alte together back then, that’s why I can understand and even read German very well, but my “Sprache” is terrible.
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It was (and still is) on ARD and WDR.
Same in Germany, but later we were able to get some Belgium and Dutch channels. And yes, I came across Derrick there, too!
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Yes, now I remember!!
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LOOK MUM…COMPUTER! 
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Temple OS vs Crypto-pimp 
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BASED
Formula 1 drive to Survive Season 3 just dropped on Netflix. I’ll probably be done Sunday night with how it is going.
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Edge is such an ugly icon! 
Edit: Easy to change to 
Simplified!
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Aquaman. It’s currently free on Amazon Prime in the UK.
… was crap. Terrible audio - couldn’t really work out what people were saying most of the time. Many of the story arcs would have been considered dated about 10 years ago. Glad I didn’t pay money to go to the cinema to see it.
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