In my last post, about David Mitchell, Adolf Hitler, and laughing at foreigners, I mentioned how German and Austrians friends get understandably tired of how the British seem to associate their countries so often and so much with the Nazis and World War II. Then I remembered a joke I heard not so long ago that's about Germans but not about either the Nazis or the war. And so, in the interests of international cultural understanding and good relations, I am posting the joke herewith....
A British couple have a baby boy. And after the birth the doctor tells them, look, okay, the baby’s fine—no problems—but I should tell you, just so you know, that your baby is German. So the couple are a bit confused about what this means, but they’re okay about it and they go home and everything is fine, except that after a while they notice that the boy is not talking. By the time he’s four years old they get worried as he’s about to start school, and so they go back to the doctors and the doctors check the boy over very thoroughly but find that he's perfectly fine, and tell the couple that, yes, he's German, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with him and he will learn to talk in his own good time. So the years go by and the boy doesn’t talk, and every now and then the couple take him to the doctors and every time the doctors say the same thing: he’s German, but he’s fine, be patient, he’ll talk one day. Then, one day, when he’s 17, the kid is having lunch, and he says to his mother, “Mother, this soup is a little tepid.” And the mum swings around and says “WHAT?” And the kid says, “This soup is a little tepid.” And the mum says, “No. Never mind the soup. You spoke! For the first time in your life, you spoke! Oh my God! Why now? Why haven’t you spoken in all these years, all these seventeen years??!!” And the kid says, “Because up until now, everysing has been satisfactory".
Everysing has been
satisfactory
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