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Schertz said that the Hamburg court’s ruling failed to take into account the way in which Boehmermann had framed his poem as deliberate satire, interspersing his reading of it with several remarks noting that the verse was an example of what would be impermissible.

Boehmermann read the poem, which contained extremely crude language, on his television show on March 31. By the next day, it had become a litmus test of artistic freedom in Germany, after the public broadcaster ZDF first pulled the show from its digital archive then restored it minus the reading of the poem.

In what she has since conceded was a mistake, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said through her spokesman on April 4 that she found the poem offensive. Erdogan went on toit around the edge near the hull but there was no exit to be seen. It was seventeen hundred hours when the Captain and the other officers sat down in the ready room to assess their situation.

Around the table sat Mr. Sook, Sub-Commander Kazzie-Spockers, Lieutenant Beani-Poohs and Commander La Trenne and Mr. Base. Also Oh-No the shape shifter and Ensigns Lid-Lidia and Follicle and Doctor Flusher were also present.

The Captain looked grimly into the faces of his crew. " Our situation in the last twenty-four hours has remained unchanged. We have tried various methods to extract ourselves and thus far all have failed. We have had no communication of any kind from the vessel or any species in this quadrant that could have dispatched it and captured us.