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Originally Posted by vienna
...and having 2 German women mad at you at the same time is likewise unamusing...
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My friend Rocky and his wife once told me a story...
Rocky and Cathy were having dinner with his parents - his dad a career army and air force sergeant with a lot of good stories to tell, and his mom a girl dad had met in Germany after the war - when for some reason the subject of honey came up. It seems mom kept her own honey, and made the mistake of saying "Norman loves my honey pot." Cathy lost it first, then Rocky, and finally his dad. Mom didn't make matters better by asking, in all seriousness, "Norm, don't you like my honey pot?" Rocky and Cathy both said they might have thought she was faking it, secretly in on the joke, but the more they laughed the more serious and angry mom got.
On the other hand...
I once told the "Compendium" joke to my friend Jacques, whose dad was from Belgium. When I said "Germans have no sense of humor" Jacques replied "Of course Germans have a sense of humor! The elected Hitler dictator, didn't they?"
Sorry to bring Godwin into it, but those were his actual words and I found them funny at the time.