Re: The Best from last Week

In article <1133189894.341071.300830@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
lorad474@xxxxxx wrote:

> Eugene Holman wrote:
> > In article <1133158471.740378.255130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > lorad474@xxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > I found it in sci.archeology; posted by Tom McDonald :
> > >
> > > "A story I heard, don't know if it's true:
> > >
> > > An old Swede who had flown for the RAF in WWI was interviewed on
> > > a radio program. Describing the beginning of a dog fight, he said
> > > (imagine very strong Swedish accent):
> > >
> > > "Well, ve vas patrolling behind the enemy lines. Suddenly, three
> > > fuckers came diving at us out of the sun."
> > >
> > > The interviewer quickly jumped in: "We want our listeners to
> > > know that Folkers were a type of German aircraft."
> >
> > No, nej=EAga, it was and still is Fokker, see http://www.fokker-aircraft.=
> info/ .
>
> Get lost american-finno-russo internationalist.
> McDonald's more succinct joke (Message-ID:
> <_Xkgf.6545$El5.1599@xxxxxxxx>) is better than your version.

No it's not.

Mine is the original and more credible, thus funnier, version of the joke.
How many Swedes were flying in the RAF during WW I? Swedish has one of the
richest vowel systems in Europe, a heavy Swedish accent in English is
primarily a matter of carrying over the so-called musical accent of
Swedish; Swedes have little difficulty with the English vowel system. How
many people, even with a heavy Swedish accent, would confuse a mid-open
unrounded vowel with a mid-open rounded one? There is no such airplane as
a "Folker". How can a joke be even marginally funny if its punchline (in
the written form) relies on the name of a non-existent airplane?

The joke is much better with the heavy Russian accent, which allows you to
have fun with the "flyink alonk in my MIG", and requires no flights of
imagination to accept as natural the fucker-Fokker confusion.

\\EH
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