The Killer Joke

[Thornir Alekeg]

It's a Monty Python joke. They had a skit about the killer joke discovered by the British and translated into German to use as a weapon in WWII. I think the "German" read during the skit was meaningless.

 

[Verequus]

Never seen this movie. What is the English equivalent?

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Double post...

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

It is not a movie, it is from the 1970's TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus. If you wish to read a transcript of the skit it is located here:

http://www.jumpstation.ca/recroom/comedy/python/joke.html

Oh, and they never translated the joke to English in the show - it would be too dangerous.

 

[Verequus]

Thank you for the link! It is funny, but I'm not dead yet!

 

[Agback]

I'm not dead yet!

You aren't fooling anyone, you know.

 

[TDRandall]

Well, according to Babelfish it translates as... (don't say you weren't warned!)....

"If the Nunstruck is git and Slotermeyer? Yes! Beiherhund the or the Flipperwaldt gersput."

Whatever THAT means!

 

[jmucchiello]

"If the Nunstruck is git and Slotermeyer? Yes! Beiherhund the or the Flipperwaldt gersput."

LOL!!!! AAAaaaaagggghhhhhhhh!

 

[Captain Tagon]

I don't know, the killer joke didn't even make me smirk. Too vague I think.

 

[Roudi]

Ah, the Killer Joke. Power Word Kill with a punchline.

See, the original humour of the Killer Joke sketch was that you never actually got to hear the joke (assuming you weren't fluent in German). By reading a joke that one claims is a killer joke kind of ruins the humour... NO joke can ever be as truly heart-stopping funny as that joke of doom. Best to leave the joke unmentioned to your PCs. Helps maintain the humour.