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13 April 2007
What's a good word for doing something even though you know you shouldn't?
Shenänegänzen- it sounds like Hitler's Secret Comedy Corps.
Voice Over:
But at Peenemunde in the Autumn of '44,
the Germans were working on a joke of their own.
A German general is seated at an imposing desk.
Behind him stands Otto, labelled "A Different Gestapo Officer". Bespectacled German scientist/joke writer enters room. He clean his throat and reads from card.
German Joker:
Die ist ein Kinnerhunder und zwei Mackel uber und der bitte schon ist den Wunderhaus sprechensie. 'Nein' sprecht der Herren 'Ist aufern borger mit zveitingen'.
He finishes and looks hopeful.
Otto:
We let you know.
He shoots him. Film of German dentists.
Voice Over:
But by December their joke was ready,
and Hitler gave the order for the German V-Joke
to be broadcast in English.
Cut to 1940's wartime radio set with couple anxiously listening to it.
Radio:
(crackly German voice)
Der ver zwei peanuts, valking down der strasse, and von vas... assaulted! peanut. Ho-ho-ho-ho.
Radio bunts into "Deutschland Uber Alles".
The couple look at each other and then in blank amazement at the radio.
bmarkey, that's one of my favorite Python sketches ever! To this day, I can make myself laugh just by thinking "der ver zwei peanuts, valking down der strasse..."
Well, doohickie, after all these many years of distaste morphing into disgust, I still find the political right in this country the lesser evil over the political left. ;-P
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