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Schwarzenegger
(pronounce: Shwartsenegguh) and
Schumacher
(Shoomahhhuh)
and Schiffer
(Shiffuh)
taught people to pronounce
the German `Sch' just like the English `Sh',
and the ending `er' more or less like the English `uh'.
This made life easier for
other ex-pats with weird German names,
such as
Schmidhuber
(Shmidhoobuh).
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Bio highlights:
1947: Born in Thal near Graz in Österreich (=Austria,
also home of
Mozart,
Gödel,
Hitler, Freud)
1967: Mr. Universe at age 20
1980: Last competition and 7th Mr. Olympia at age 33
1982: Movie breakthrough with Conan the Barbarian
1983: US citizen at age 36; keeps Austrian citizenship
1984: Terminator I
1990s: Becomes `world's best-paid entertainer'
(his own words)
2003: Governator of California, with
4 times the population of Austria
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