stevep
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Post by stevep on Nov 4, 2024 22:19:33 GMT
On the Wehrmacht sniping range, the lieutenant says to a fellow soldier: "That guy over there is pretty good". "Yes indeed, but I have a feeling that we should better check his personal background". "Why?" "After every shot he carefully removes his fingerprints from the rifle". Sorry I don’t get the joke
I think the suggestion is he's previously been a professional assassin. Hence he removes evidence such as fingerprints.
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Post by Max Sinister on Nov 5, 2024 8:15:06 GMT
On the Wehrmacht sniping range, the lieutenant says to a fellow soldier: "That guy over there is pretty good". "Yes indeed, but I have a feeling that we should better check his personal background". "Why?" "After every shot he carefully removes his fingerprints from the rifle". Sorry I don’t get the joke
I think the suggestion is he's previously been a professional assassin. Hence he removes evidence such as fingerprints.
Or a crook in general - maybe a safecracker.
Some real Adenauer quote from 1955: "Wenn die Österreicher von uns Reparationen verlangen sollten, dann werde ich ihnen die Gebeine Adolf Hitlers schicken." (In case the Austrians would demand reparations from us, then I'll send them the bones of Adolf Hitler.)
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Post by stevep on Nov 5, 2024 9:51:21 GMT
I think the suggestion is he's previously been a professional assassin. Hence he removes evidence such as fingerprints.
Or a crook in general - maybe a safecracker.
Some real Adenauer quote from 1955: "Wenn die Österreicher von uns Reparationen verlangen sollten, dann werde ich ihnen die Gebeine Adolf Hitlers schicken." (In case the Austrians would demand reparations from us, then I'll send them the bones of Adolf Hitler.)
I like that one. 
In terms of the previous joke the fact he's such a good sniper that's why I was thinking assassin but you could be right that he's a more general criminal. Either way he would fit in well in the 3rd Reich.
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Post by Max Sinister on Nov 9, 2024 22:06:09 GMT
This may become history one day, that's why I mention it here.
Recently (early November 2024) overheard this in Germany:
Man #1: "Watch out when you drive back."
Man #2: "Why?"
Man #1: "The traffic light [coalition] is broken."
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Post by Max Sinister on Nov 13, 2024 17:24:06 GMT
When Günther Prien had become father of a daughter in 1940, he received this message: “Ein U-boot ohne Sehrohr ist heute angekommen -- A submarine without periscope arrived today.”
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Post by stevep on Nov 13, 2024 17:38:20 GMT
When Günther Prien had become father of a daughter in 1940, he received this message: “Ein U-boot ohne Sehrohr ist heute angekommen -- A submarine without periscope arrived today.”
I hope that was an already pre-arranged code else he could have been very confused.  |
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Post by Max Sinister on Nov 13, 2024 17:49:46 GMT
When Günther Prien had become father of a daughter in 1940, he received this message: “Ein U-boot ohne Sehrohr ist heute angekommen -- A submarine without periscope arrived today.”
I hope that was an already pre-arranged code else he could have been very confused. Possible, but not proven. I heard this old joke several times ago, sometimes with cushions, sometimes with melons with/without stem. But apparently this may have started with Prien.
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Post by Max Sinister on Nov 16, 2024 21:23:07 GMT
When Günther Prien had become father of a daughter in 1940, he received this message: “Ein U-boot ohne Sehrohr ist heute angekommen -- A submarine without periscope arrived today.” Apparently Dönitz made this joke whenever one of his captains would become a father. Not just for Prien.
A real anecdote: Chancellor Helmut Kohl is visiting the zoo of Berlin. When he's just leaving the house where the primates are (said to be a very impressive place there), he meets an old Berlinian woman.
Old woman: "Sind Sie der Kohl?" (Are you that Kohl guy?)
Kohl: "Ja."
Old woman: "Und da dürfen Sie so frei herumlaufen?" (And then you're allowed to run free like that?)
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Post by lordroel on Nov 16, 2024 21:50:30 GMT
Saw this on Twitter (X):
An old Polish joke from communist times:
A man walks into a shop and sees the shelves are empty.
He says: "Oh, so you have no meat?"
The shopkeeper replies: "Sir, this is the shop with no fish. The shop with no meat is across the street."
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Post by Max Sinister on Nov 20, 2024 20:21:44 GMT
A state-run bicycle factory in East Germany is celebrating their 15th anniversary. Many prominent guests, big speeches. At the end, an average guy is allowed to the podium because he was the first customer 15 years ago - he had a bike chain to repair.
At first the fellow thanks for the great honor, then he asks the director: "And when will I get my chain back?"
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