TÜRKLINKE
For some weird reason, I really like this word. It has nothing to do with Turks, but is made up of two halves – TÜR meaning door and the other half meaning "handle". Hence door handle.
To me it just sounds right -- I think "klinke" is exactly the sort of clinking noise a door handle makes when you open it, particularly if it's actually a handle, not a knob, fnarr fnarr. Of course TÜR shouldn't be mixed up with TOR, which means "gate" as in the BRANDENBURGER TOR – the famous monument in central Berlin. You know, the one with the pillars and the horses on top.
When it comes to football, TOR is also a goal, which is why TORWART is a goal keeper. Germany's produced its fair share of top shot-stoppers in the past – from the kindly-looking Jens Lehmann who was at Arsenal for years to nasty Toni Schumacher who bulldozed that French striker in the 1982 World Cup semi-finals in Spain and never even got a yellow card. Not that I'm bitter or anything – it was, of course, Germany who got through at England's expense in the previous round, partly because former Hamburg striker Kevin Keegan couldn't find the back of the German TOR.