German Of The Day: Knast

That means prison.

The imprisonment in London of the tennis legend Boris Becker for bankruptcy offences has triggered an outpouring of shock and disappointment in his native Germany, where he was once hailed as a national hero.

One former fan spoke for many when he said: “He made mistakes for which he’s rightly being punished. But maybe he’ll get up again one day, just like Becker, the tennis player, so often did.”

Better than the Weather Channel

But just barely. That’s right, folks. It’s time to introduce… Boris Becker Web TV!

Becker TV!

You can now watch Boris hanging out at one of his many homes, getting face-sucked by his latest fiancé, going to and even in one of his many bathrooms, taking his latest medication (we hope) and even getting married at his very latest made-for-Web-TV marriage, but you knew about that one already. You won’t be seeing him play any tennis any soon, though. If you want sports, go to ESPN – to ESPN Classics.

And all of this 24 freakin’ hours a day! Kind of like the weather, you know?

„Dies ist das erste personalisierte Web-TV der Welt.“

Boris won’t stop engaging us

Or you, I should say. With his public marriage proposal announcement intervals now dropping to their lowest levels since 1997 (only every seven months now), aging ex-tennis star exhibitionist Boris Becker just can’t stop asking women to marry him.

 

Boom, boom, boom.

 

The mentally disturbed, doped or drunken German jock (or all three?) announced his most recent engagement to model Lilly Kerssenberg on Germany’s popular “Wetten, dass…?” (Wanna bet?) TV show just seven months after having asked German socialite Sandy Meyer-Woelden to do the same thing, in pretty much the same way.

 

And no, it wasn’t one of the bets, but maybe during next month’s show.

 

“I know lots of people who won’t understand me, but we’re only human.”