This is not the lone incidence of Scooby-doo in everyday German. Gimp - that weird plastic crap used to braid ugly keychains - is also known here in Germany as Scooby-Doo. Kids still use it. Trade it. Give it to their best friends. And - so say the Europeans - they had the name first. See Wikipedia for the whole (rather unlikely) story in which "Scoubidou" is a popular French song from the 1950s, scoubidous are some kind of sock hop version of jelly bracelets, and Ethel and Julius Rothenburg are all to blame. So who stole what, when, and from whom? Let me just say that, after hearing three 9 year old boys absent-mindedly sing all the words to (I've Had The)Time of My Life while drawing Star Wars fan pictures, I am no longer surprised to find further evidence that Europe has access to a time warp that taps into memes no one else remembers.
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