The Corner

Das Wetter Ist So Lustig!

My kids are both cracking up over, or with, this weather lady.  So much for the notion that Germans have no sense of humor.  Who could ever have believed such a thing?

I recall the last time I was told a joke by a German, in German.  I can’t reconstruct the joke–this was many, many years ago–but it concerned a crushed apple seller –zerquetschterapfelverkäufer– and hinged on a misunderstanding about who or what was being crushed, the apples or the seller.  Ha ha ha ha ha! 

John Derbyshire — Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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