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Mein Führer! I can walk! Can you please explain this joke to me, cuz im too dumb to get it |
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General Jack D. Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Well, I can't say I have. And this one too, please |
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well, general ripper was a nutcase who thought the ruskies were poisoning our water... he was using the fact that mandrake had never seen a ruskie drinking water as evidence.. ..the joke being that you probably wouldn't take notice of seeing anyone drinking a glass of water, cause it's completely forgettable and ripper was insane. |
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Thats fucking retarded.....I mean that joke.... |
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i'm not really sure you could call either of your examples "jokes" |
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i'm not really sure you could call either of your examples "jokes" |
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How would you classify them? What would be the correct reaction? |
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Here is another explaination: Kubrick based Dr. Strangelove on a little known Harvard professor in international relations at the time, a guy by the name of Henry Kissinger. Henry Kissinger later served as President Nixon's Secretary of State and was crucial in Nixon's effort to open American-Red China relations. Henry, last time I checked, was still alive and running a consulting firm for international corporations. The "I can walk" is a play on the very popular Christian Evangelest TV faith healers at the time. Many people would go up to the faith healers on tv on crutches and wheelchairs, receive the "holy spirit" through the hand of the faith healer on the forehead (visibly jerking as the "holy spirit" entered their bodies), and then throwing away their crutches and wheelchairs and walking away exclaiming "I can walk! I can walk!". Dr. Strangelove's hand attacks him and he is in a wheelchair because he suffers from a psychosomatic illness generated by guilt over the Nazi crimes he committed in WWII Germany. Ok, so I did not understand this...am I stupid ? |
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i'd say they're just subtle unnerving humor.. stuff that kubrick was really good at. not really jokes, with like a punchline or anything. |
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Why would you laugh at something you do not fully understand? |
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oh yes, very. Kubrick would've cried had he known you had watched his film. and if he still lived ofcourse. |
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he didn't say he didn't fully understand those lines. |
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i didn't say i laughed either. |
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What was your reaction ? |
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enjoyment. |
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why did the german cross the road? to show you how it should be done properly |
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Why ? |
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ahahhaa |
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I only have a 90 IQ |
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strangefilm. |
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that was funny |
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