@Frank Bitterlich
... although let us not forget that even the so-called "engineers" of British Leyland/Triumph/BSA/Norton/Reliant/AC/etc. never made a vehicle that sucked like the Trabant :).
My favourite end-of-east-germany story is what happened to the redundant Vopos uniforms. Seems that some highly dubious gay fetish emporiums in East London bought them, and they became quite fashionable in the more extreme London-based gay clubs for a while.
I wonder if the same thing will happen in reverse with our redundant customs officers and passport control officers uniforms?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
