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WWGD said:
Local German store advertising " The best of the Wurst".
German is the only language in which "Das ist völliger Käse, aber eigentlich auch Wurst." (It's totally cheese, but it's actually also sausage.) makes perfect sense.

"Käse" (cheese) is used as a synonym for "nonsense".
"Wurst" (sausage) is used as a synonym for another specifically German word: "egal".
It does not only look like "equal", it probably also has the same origin.
However, it is used differently. "equal" in German is "gleich". "egal" is best translated as "anyway", "doesn't matter", "either way", or "I don't care". It summarizes all these different meanings in four letters. Hence "Das ist völliger Käse, aber eigentlich auch Wurst." (It's totally cheese, but it's actually also sausage.) means: "It's complete nonsense but who cares."

There is another four letter word I really miss in other languages: "doch". The Hungarians say "de igen" (but, yes) and in English it would probably be "oh yes." It stands for "I contradict what you have said and restate what I have said." What an effort if only four letters would do: doch! "Yes" alone doesn't transport enough contradiction.
 
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phinds said:
OK, but why do you have a stick of dynamite in the corner?
That's a trademark of the artist. The pipe and the eye are also a kind of signature. There is normally also a piece of blueberry cake.
 
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fresh_42 said:
The pipe and the eye are also a kind of signature.
Cela n'est pas une pipe.
 
DrGreg said:
Cela n'est pas une pipe.
I admit I was too lazy to look up the correct word and decided to live with the uncertainty, sorry.
 
fresh_42 said:
I admit I was too lazy to look up the correct word and decided to live with the uncertainty, sorry.
The word is correct. I was making a different joke.

The Treachery of Images
 
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You spoonfeed them as carefully and with as much patience as you can.
When they try to implement what you have showed them they make a complete mess of things, mixing things up in ways you never thought possible.
If you try to gently correct them they start crying because they want to do it themselves.
In the end, you just hope some of it stayed in.

If parental leave is teaching me anything it is that my job as a university professor is a lot like feeding a one-year-old.
 
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… Don't you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you
 
BvU said:
… Don't you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you
Are we talking about the kids or the students? 😂
 
The dutch expression is
'You get so much in return'

All very philosophical :wink:

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Also, be sure the take the stick out of your butt.
 
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Why is it a bad idea to throw your false teeth out the window while you're driving?

You might denture car.
 
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