The first time the Bostonian Drunkard announced Karl Rove would be indicted on May 12, 2006--this was probably May 9 or May 10 of that year--a femme primitive talked about breaking out the champagne and celebrating "schadenfreude."
P-J Comix caught that before any of the rest of us did; the correct word is "freudenschade."
"Freudenschade" is where one gets great joy out of the great misery of someone else.
Actually PJ was using a purposeful inversion of the two parts of the word, the correct German word really
is "Schadenfreude" (Malicious joy from the misery of others), a compound of "Schaden" (misfortune) and "Freude" (Joy). Inverted, I don't think it is a word they actually use but it would mean something like joy crashing and burning, which is the context in which he uses it.
Here's a great German-English dictionary if you ever need one:
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/It is real interesting to google your REAL name and see what comes up, and quite surprising. I found out one of my cousins is an extensively-published astrophysicist, for instance, and that another one had been seriously injured in combat in Iraq back in 2004, for instance (same very distinctive last names, anyone with it is related to me).