Cobol - Re: OT: Ridin' tall on the Santiago Canyon Road (was Re: What could J4 (or WG4) do)

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Re: OT: Ridin' tall on the Santiago Canyon Road (was Re: What could J4 (or WG4) do)

Alistair

2006-06-17, 7:55 am

Pete Dashwood wrote:
> "Alistair" <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1149596140.284229.202080@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
> After living in Germany for a number of years I realised the following:
>
> 1. Not all Germans were members of or supported the Nazi party.

True. I searched for Japanese/German atrocities on the web some years
ago and encountered the following site which is worth spending some
time on. Somewhere it covers the known assassination attempts made by
Germans against Hitler.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~gdunca...sser_known_1939

> 2. Germany took a far greater hiding than allied countries (with the
> possible exception of Poland) did. Churchill promised that for every bomb
> dropped on England 10 would be sent back, and that was nearly achieved. A
> lot of it was superfluous and unnecessary, like putting the boot into
> someone who is no longer a threat.

The jury is still out on whether the fire-bombings were necessary or
effective.

>
> 4. Germans do have a sense of humour. It is a little different to the Anglo
> Saxon one but it is still highly developed and very real.

Very dry humour. And it doesn't necessarily translate well into
English. The UK had an attempt to determine the best joke some years
ago. The allegation was made that the Germans did not have a sense of
humour. The German ambas

or was worried enough that he appeared on
Radio 4 and told German jokes to prove that they did have a sense of
humour.

>
> 5. Germans make good friends and are, for the most part, decent and loyal.
> They are good to work with, and good to spend time out of work with.

6. And they have bloody good food and beer. Costly but better than
British food. My friends don't believe me when I tell them that German
food is better in terms of quality and quantity than British food.

>
> It is absolutely time we all moved on...
>
> Pete.

2006-06-17, 7:55 am

In article <1149610021.981712.228790@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Alistair <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Pete Dashwood wrote:

[snip]

>
>Very dry humour. And it doesn't necessarily translate well into
>English.

Hmmmmmm... I will now relate a joke told to me by a German (an employee of
the Deutsche Bank, in fact) which mentions almost all of the touchstones
of that particular culture. (cultural touchstones are marked with an (*))

Two men were out drinking. (*) One of them had a bit too much and felt a
bit queasy so he needed to return, per os, a bit of what he had
consumed. (*) Since they were in a small town (*) the plumbing
arrangements (*) were a bit primitive and he had to step outside.

He was away for a while and his friend got concerned. (*) The friend
stepped outside to the privy and saw his companion poking into it with a
long stick. (*) He asked his friend 'What are you doing?' and his friend
replied 'Oh, I was a bit enthusiastic in my regurtitations and my false
teeth fell into the privy; I'm poking the stick in to try and get them
out.'

'Do you honestly think that you'll be able to retrieve a set of false
teeth by poking into a privy with a stick?'

'Oh yes... I found three pairs already but none of them fit!' (*)

DD

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