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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Well... [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest |the Oktoberfest]], [[Captain Obvious|rea]][[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|lly]]. And '''''no''''', it neither celebrates beer nor does it celebrate the fact that it's october. It celebrates the jubilee of the 1810 wedding of the Bavarian Prince Ludwig I (later King Ludwig I of Bavaria, the grandfather of [[King Ludwig II]]) and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen on the same spot, just outside the city limits of Munich (in 1810, that was, as the city engulfed it. Nowadays, it's in the city centre). Not that it would be an easy task to find any German who knows this.
* Cincinnati ''is'' a known example for this trope during Oktoberfests, along with many places in the world with a high German colony will become mini Oktoberfests or host similar festivals, i.e. Blumenau in Brazil.
* German songs bang on about this to the extent that the Deutschlandlied, from which one part was taken to become the '''national anthem''', has a chorus to this effect:
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