Schwanzkopf power!

I was listening to one of my favourite bands earlier, they are a turkish hip-hop group from Switzerland called Makale.

I heard a line in one of their songs 'Kingztanbul' which made me laugh, "Schwanzkopf power!"

Until I heard this song a few months ago I was pretty sure I was the only person in the world who used the word 'schwanzkopf' (it literally means 'dick-head' in German).

When I first moved to Brisbane for study last year I was living with a German guy and an American girl, both on exchange for a semester, and both lots of fun! Invariably living with a German I picked up bits of the language, and since schwanz (dick) was my first word, I tried to use all the time...including as a name for any German I cared to talk to.

I was taking a shower one day when I noticed the name of the shampoo 'Schwarzkopf'... even a lumberjack on cocaine can work out what came next; and so from that day on, untill I heard Makale, I was credited as being the inventor of the word schwanzkopf

alas no more, but at least there are others who share the pride of being a truly unique schwanzkopf!