re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The German word is Hummel, as in the figurines (with the Bumblebee logo).

I was amused to hear a German colleague refer to one as a “humblebee”

(as opposed to an arrogant wasp, I guess)

One of my grammas collected Hummels. She used to tell her grandchildren to pick which one they wanted when she died. I was bothered by that. She made it to 99, I have no idea where the Hummels went.