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The little guy up top left is Baron Sam von Schamm, star of the Warner Bros cartoon The Dumb Patrol. Everyone who says the cartoon actually starred Bugs Bunny and that Sam was only the nemesis/comic relief can leave RIGHT NOW!

Still here?

Good.

This is one of my all time favourite Warner Bros. cartoons. Despite Yosemite Sam's obviously American accent he epitomized the "Raging Kraut" that lived within all of my European-born relatives - my Oma and Opa, my father and especially my mother, who while technically not born in Germany, could go from zero to foaming-at-the-mouth rage in as little as thirty seconds...Many times when I was getting the crap kicked out of me at school I was more afraid of the punishment my mother would come up with if my clothes were ripped or had blood on them (mine, the other kid's - it was all the same to her)

It was Sam that actually inspired the name of this site. He is my alter-ego, and it is he who is writing here, not his mild-mannered disguise who lives his days outside of the world wide web. Bear that in mind as you read further.