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WCDT Strips 3946-3950 (25th February - 1st March 2019)
SpanielBear:
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--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 27 Feb 2019, 10:35 ---
--- Quote from: Case on 26 Feb 2019, 20:07 ---'You can leeeave your bread on ...'
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This actually hurts me. It's so bad, it could be one of MY jokes.
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I'm the Uwe Boll of punning. 8-)
Srsly, though: Do we have a Germanophone equivalent to the Anglophone punning-culture? We do puns, too, but methinks it doesn't play that much of a role in German/Austrian/Swiss humor? .
P. S.: Yes, German humor does exist, it's just that it is pretty dark, very fond of the surreal and absurd, and a lot of it is deadpan & tongue-in-cheek. Monthly Python is right up our alley.
P. P. S. :And it's distinct from post-1990s German comedy, which is a crime against humanity.
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It's a very small sample I know, but I thought Rammstein lyrics were largely pun based. It feels* like German heavy metal in general uses a lot of wordplay. It's one of the reasons I like it, it takes a genre known for its aggression and violent imagery and uses humour to turn a gaze back on itself. It's self aware, playing up the pantomime. It can be downright clever sometimes.
(Also industrial bass riffs, oh my God take me now...)
*My German is pretty bad, and this is definitely a perception from a foreign perspective rather than an objective observation.
Stoutfellow:
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 27 Feb 2019, 20:23 ---Roko has a melon baller for scooping bread dough for mini-breads. I use mine for cookies.
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Do we have any evidence that Roko actually bakes, as opposed to haunting bakeries?
Thrudd:
Just injecting a sampling of one variety of German humour that a cousin sent a link to me - NICHTLUSTIG - the name translates as NOT FUNNY
(click to show/hide)http://static.nichtlustig.de/toondb_iframe/207f88018f72237565570f8a9e5ca240.html
We have the murderer but the victim is still running around here somewhere
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: SpanielBear on 28 Feb 2019, 05:29 ---
--- Quote from: Case on 28 Feb 2019, 02:49 ---
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 27 Feb 2019, 10:35 ---
--- Quote from: Case on 26 Feb 2019, 20:07 ---'You can leeeave your bread on ...'
--- End quote ---
This actually hurts me. It's so bad, it could be one of MY jokes.
--- End quote ---
I'm the Uwe Boll of punning. 8-)
Srsly, though: Do we have a Germanophone equivalent to the Anglophone punning-culture? We do puns, too, but methinks it doesn't play that much of a role in German/Austrian/Swiss humor? .
P. S.: Yes, German humor does exist, it's just that it is pretty dark, very fond of the surreal and absurd, and a lot of it is deadpan & tongue-in-cheek. Monthly Python is right up our alley.
P. P. S. :And it's distinct from post-1990s German comedy, which is a crime against humanity.
--- End quote ---
It's a very small sample I know, but I thought Rammstein lyrics were largely pun based. It feels* like German heavy metal in general uses a lot of wordplay. It's one of the reasons I like it, it takes a genre known for its aggression and violent imagery and uses humour to turn a gaze back on itself. It's self aware, playing up the pantomime. It can be downright clever sometimes.
(Also industrial bass riffs, oh my God take me now...)
*My German is pretty bad, and this is definitely a perception from a foreign perspective rather than an objective observation.
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A certain circle of my friends knows me for my capability of occasionally brilliant, but mostly blunt to really bad puns.
I think, to an extent, Austrian humor is partially very similar to a certain British humour. We can be quite dark, even morbid, and I have certain self-deprecating tendencies. and we're not afraid to turn on clichés.
I think German humor used to be extremely dry. Like one-liners needed a gallon of water to rehydrate, and still be dry.
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 28 Feb 2019, 08:21 ---Just injecting a sampling of one variety of German humour that a cousin sent a link to me - NICHTLUSTIG - the name translates as NOT FUNNY
(click to show/hide)http://static.nichtlustig.de/toondb_iframe/207f88018f72237565570f8a9e5ca240.html
We have the murderer but the victim is still running around here somewhere
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Some of them are spot on.
Perfectly Reasonable:
This brought to my mind the image of a chicken running around with its head cut off -- which I have seen. Then I looked up the cartoon...
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