Since the rules of the Geneva Conventions seem to lose importance anyway....

[BeBMan]

....shouldn't we reconsider joke warfare, as outlined by Monty Python in "The Funniest Joke in the World" sketch?

Wiki says joke warfare was banned after WWII by all countries, but IMO it could do wonder in places like Iraq or so. Just proliferation would be a problem.

Thoughts?

[Japher]

too deadly...

[Winston]

-Zere were two peanuts walking down ze Strasse, and one was assaulted.. peanut..



You know, German posters should probably proceed with extreme caution when suggesting something like joke warfare.

[Winston]

Sorry, I didn't mean to kill your thread, BeBro.

I was just trying to be a little bit funny. It's not like I made an actual joke or anything.

[Verto]

What is joke warfare? I'm too lazy to wiki it

[Zkribbler]

Two Irishmen walk out of a bar....
---hey, it could happen!

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Winston
You know, German posters should probably proceed with extreme caution when suggesting something like joke warfare.

So Danes have harsh stereotypes about German humour too? Most unfair, in my experience.

[Winston]

Actually, it was in reference to the quote I gave of the German counter-joke attempt from the original Monty Python sketch.

But, since you asked, yes, yes we do.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Winston
Sorry, I didn't mean to kill your thread, BeBro.

No problem, I know it's difficult for you

[Heresson]

Re: Since the rules of the Geneva Conventions seem to lose importance anyway....

Originally posted by BeBro
....shouldn't we reconsider joke warfare, as outlined by Monty Python in "The Funniest Joke in the World" sketch?
Thoughts?

A German wanting to make Germany completely defenceless and open to foreign conquest

[BeBMan]

We use Poles now for securing our eastern border with Russia.....

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

For Verto the motivationally challenged


I remembered the dog joke as the German response

The Funniest Joke in the World
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This article is about the Monty Python sketch. For the research by Richard Wiseman on the relative humour in different jokes and cultures, see World's funniest joke.

"The Funniest Joke in the World" is the most frequent title used to refer to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, also known by two other phrases that appear within it, "joke warfare" and "killer joke". The premise of the sketch is fatal hilarity: the joke is simply so funny that anyone who reads or hears it promptly dies laughing.

[edit] Broadcast

The sketch appeared in the first episode of the television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, which was titled "Whither Canada?". The sketch was later remade in a shorter version for the film And Now For Something Completely Different; it is also available on the CD-ROM game of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

[edit] Summary

The sketch is set during World War II, when Ernest Scribbler, a British joke writer (Michael Palin), creates the funniest joke in the world and then dies laughing. His mother (Eric Idle) enters the room shortly thereafter, and finds her son dead. Horrified, she carefully takes the crumpled paper from his hand, and reads it, believing it to be a suicide note. She then begins laughing hysterically, falls over the desk (or bed, in the movie version) and dies. A policeman (Graham Chapman) retrieves the joke, but unluckily reads it and also dies laughing.

It is finally given over to the British Army, and after careful testing, the joke is translated into German. Each word of the joke is translated by a different person — ostensibly because seeing too much of the joke would prove fatal. The narrator (Chapman) adds that one translator accidentally caught a glimpse of a second word, and was hospitalized for weeks.

The translation is given to British soldiers who do not speak German, because not understanding what they are saying is the only way to survive reading the joke aloud. The joke is used first time on 8 July 1944 in the Ardennes by the soldiers, who read the German version aloud on the battlefield, and the German soldiers simply fall over dead from laughter.

In the television version, a British soldier (Palin) is captured and forced to tell the joke to the Germans. However, as hearing the joke proves deadly, his captors (John Cleese and Chapman) die laughing and he escapes. The Germans work to produce an equally deadly joke, and two Gestapo officers in charge of the "killer joke" effort (Chapman and Terry Jones) shoot a scientist (Idle) whose joke is not funny.

The nonsensical German "translation" of the joke (including words that are inauthentic German):

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput. (roughly: "When is the nowpiece 'git' and 'Slotermeyer'? Yes!... 'Beiher'dog the Oder (a river) the 'Flipper'forest 'gersput'."

The 16 Ton Monty Python Megaset has the joke written under "useless tidbits" for episode 1 volume 1 as exactly:

Venn ist das nurnstuck git und slotermeyer? Ya! Beigerhund das oder die flipperwaldt gersput!

The Germans soon formulate a counter-joke, which is translated into English and played over the radio to London, but with no success. (The joke is: "There were zwei [two] peanuts walking down the strasse [street]. One of them was assaulted... peanut!") Different jokes are used in the television and film versions of the sketch.(In the television version, the joke is: 'My dog has no nose. How does it smell? Awful!")

The joke is finally laid to rest when "peace broke out" at the end of the war. All countries agree to a Joke Warfare ban at a "special session of the Geneva convention". The joke is under a monument bearing the inscription "To the Unknown Joke" (as compared with the British Unknown Warrior or the Unknown Soldier).

[Lancer]

Dolores told me one just recently...

A rack of muffins are baking in the oven. Finally one muffin exclaims, "Damn it's hot in here!" To which another muffin exclaims "OMG, a talking muffin!"

[Heresson]

Originally posted by BeBro
We use Poles now for securing our eastern border with Russia.....

Germans puting their safety into polish hands