Nearest is to blame for the first of the bad trench jokes.
Nice thing about processing files for the Ka-Blam books is I can let the Buffy DVD from the library run. Our favorite crapola makes for something to occupy the communicative brain while the numerical chunks are busy.
Yeah, yeah, I’m the TV generation. We’re like early internet; we need 7 or 8 levels of brain going at once to keep from being bored by mundane projects.
Oh, goody, we finally get to see what “The Gentlemen” were. I forgot about the entrepreneur who was selling message boards when everyone went dumb; we all know that guy. Some of us ARE that guy.
As funny as I remember! But true to an extent.
I once spoke to a few old British soldiers and on enemy fire they all said the same thing:”If the British fire the Germans duck. If the Germans fire the British duck. If the Americans fire -every f**** ducks!”
I then chatted to a few old German soldiers and they had no idea why I laughed out loud when they said exactly the same thing. “Ach -but it’s true!!” they protested.
I think the German sense of humor really has a rule: “Don’t laugh at the truth.” Irony, yes, sarcasm, certainly, but if it’s true, it’s not funny. They might have thought you were laughing at it as untrue! I know the obsessiveness is part of MY German background…. :rotfl: