"In German, oder Englisch, I know how to count down Und I'm learning Chinese!" - as relevant as ever. Maybe less so German and more matrix multiplication
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"'Nazi Schmazi' says Werner von Braun" is an amazing joke
It had me in stitches when I first heard and I really wondered how big a fraction of his audience got that one.
A fairly intellectual audience, in the 50s and 60s when the space race was big news and von Braun's Nazi past was recent history? I'd guess a majority.
Is there a specific joke in "Nazi Schmazi" besides the general idea that he wasn't picky about what regime he worked for?
Yiddish
Ah, I am so used to that as a general wordplay pattern that I didn't think about the origin, good point!
Do you mean it sounds like it could be a Yiddish word? Because it doesn't seem to be an actual Yiddish (or German) word, as far as I can tell.
Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department.
"who cares where ze come down"
.. important to get the German english right!
"National Brotherhood Week" is another great one.