Infallible Logic

[oloriel]

A conversation that Felix had with me just now:

Felix: Der Erfolg ist das Ergebnis. ("Success is the result.")
Moi: .......?!
Felix: Das hat die Ziege gesagt! ("That's what the goat said!")
Moi: Die Ziege? Kann die Ziege denn sprechen? ("The goat? The goat can talk?")
Felix: Dafür hat die Ziege ja einen Mund! ("That's why the goat has a mouth!")

... Of course.
Seriously, I have no clue where that came from. Every explanation I can come up with is terribly constructed. For instance, Ziege is not only the German word for goat, but also used as an insult for a "bleating" woman, but it's not particularly likely he picked that up since we really only use the dialectal version, Zicke (short i, hard k as opposed to long i, soft g), if at all. It's really more likely that he means one of the actual goats who live up the street, but I very much doubt they bleat business manager formulae!
I wonder whether it's something he dreamed?

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[cowboy-r.livejournal.com]

Television?

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Yes, I suspect he may have heard the "success" line in some commercial or otherwise. But we haven't watched anything with goats in it, let alone talking goats, and he doesn't watch the telly on his own.