qui watchen-zie Duck Soup?
Say, isn’t a “berliner” a sort of jelly doughnut, and the word to indicate a citizen of Berlin something else? Sort of like “Carioca” for a Rio de Janeiroid. I recall rumors of Germans laughing behind their hands when Jack Kennedy said that.
I’m a 'merkin. 
Did you think i was saying i’m from Berlin?
Well, I would find it entirely within your character to declare yourself a jelly doughnut. 
“Berliner” is that lovely, quite fatty donut as you are saying and it’s high time is soon coming as “German Karneval” is in February…
I cannot remember Germans laughing about President Kennedy not if he used the term “Berliner” as it also counts for the citizens of the town, they were very proud of him. Like Berliner there are also Hamburger which in Germany is a sausage and the people from Hamburg. Well, Zoob’s “Pariser” hm… well I better not mention what it means in Germany as this might be another reason on top why schools cannot access this forum
Looking at the laughing aspect when hearing him say “Ick bin ein Berliner” than it could be for the “ICK” as mostly English and Americans have problems with the German “Ich” as it is spelled more like “iche” as in Michelle. Speaking of pronounciation problems… most Germans have problems in saying “the” not correct it sounds more like the “sse” as in Golumn’s “preciousese”.
Brigitte
P.S. Like the way the thread kept growing with all the different languages… macht bitte weiter so…
When the C&F Awards are given out this has to be the winner for at least 3.
The Most Posts To A Private Message Notice Thread &
maybe when all is done, The Most Viewed Private Message Notice &
The Most Posts Generated By A Board Member Not Personally Posting
Ailin
I sure watch it before someone steals it.
He’d be smarter to steal my watch while I duck,
else I’ll sneak back and–pop!–goes his weasel.
Did you think I meant I’m no [bleep] err… I hear there are kids around.
Though, a five-year-old kid could understand this.
I’m safe, my kid is seven-year-old!
I doubt the “Berliner” thing was a joke in Germany, due to the seriousness of the situation when it happened, but it’s become a nerd joke since, and that’s why i used it.
Speaking of jokes, here’s one i read today in a Douglas Adams book: this guy wakes up in a hospital after the operation, saying “Doctor! What’s wrong, i can’t feel my legs!!!” And the doctor responds: “That’s because we amputated your arms.”
Groucho Marx. I watched a Marx brothers (Groucho, Harpo and Karl?) movie last Christmas, in Slovakia, and man, i hadn’t laughed that much in a long time. This reminds me, i gotta watch more of their stuff. Classic! Harpo, by the way, is Oprah spelled backwards.
I’ve been exchanging some emails with Brigitte and Colin Goldie, and i just wanted to say, and here seems to be as good place as any, that they’re great, the nicest and kindest couple. I heard they make good whistles too.
And last but not least, Zubivka, i didn’t PM you.
glauber
Hmm, yes well…I wish I had taken more than one year of German in High School, perhaps then I’d be able to enjoy this thread more! 
Loren
Welcome to the club. Which one movie did you see?
So what? You expected to be safe from me answering nonetheless? In this thread safe of sx, politics**, religion or rec**ers?
- I was close to trespassing, if not for Brigitte’s reminder
** although you had your meak attempt…
*** Glauber, my purty whistles ain’t rec***ers
**** I loaf feetnotes
Ma perché non c’è l’italiano qui? C’e troppo tedesco (danese, olandese, svedese…) 
! Spero che ho identificato correttamente tutti…
Glauber, warum kein portugiesisch?
Tutti? Far from tutti fruitcakes!
Inventamos, euh… aqui il Esperanto del ein-und-zwanzigste seculo seculorum (amen), il Meta-Volapük della Internet generazione! Ecco… 
PS: just noticed I sound here as that bogomil wretch in the Name of the Rose…
Well, as long as I don’t sound like the same actor, looking a like true ethnic Cro-Magnon in Quest for Fire…
Eh bien, Zub, comment dit-on ‘Esperanto’ en italien? 
Hehe, I said I thought too much German and French was being spoken in the thread. I have now, of course, changed my mind and find this an extremely delightful thread! 
/Jens
In Italiano e tutto un altra cosa. Si dice “Esperanto”. (Credo che e lo stesso in tutte le lingue.)
Adesso, dove sonno gli spaghetti?
Mike
O Mamm, wat as dat do e Kaabes.
Complete idiocy, that. Total urban legend. If you hear such rumors again, ignore them (or better yet slug whoever says it with large history book). Just shows how people have grown out of touch with that time and the circumstances then.
It’s a bit like saying that, if President Bush standing on the smoldering heaps of Ground Zero had said “I am a New Yorker” to express his sympathy & solidarity, the 9/11 widows would have chuckled, thinking, hey, he just called himself a magazine.
I’m getting hungry.
sonno gli spaghetti? Gotta be better than last night’s attempt at “homemade” sauce. I’ll look for Sonno Gli in a jar next time.
well the germans will laugh even more at zubivka claiming to be a “pariser”…