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<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Margaret,</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005></SPAN></TT> </DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>I'm
impressed. You do know Erwin Pelzig.</FONT> <FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Wow! And I meant him (not being able to</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>remember his first name - which might be due to advancing
age). I have heard about this German</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005></SPAN><SPAN
class=890252300-25082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff> stand-up comic
doing well in Britain. However, I have also heard that not all Brits
like</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>his sense
of humor, especially when he makes fun of the German
stereotype.</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Well, if
the Franconians laugh at your jokes, you have made it. By the way, I have
grown up</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>in
Franconia and that is the only German dialect I speak.</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Thanks
for sharing these websites. I'll check them out. Reminds me of home, being
in</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Dakar in
Senegal at the moment.</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>This was
a rich day. It's past midnight and I have to go to
sleep.</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005></SPAN></TT> </DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Greetings,</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005></SPAN></TT> </DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=890252300-25082005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Fritz</FONT> </SPAN><BR><BR><BR>> Maybe you made a pun.
What was it? <BR><BR>I thought Bill meant "conversational", but I referred to
"conservational".<BR><BR>> By the way, what do you think of German/Franconian
humor, as you live in<BR>> Fürth? <BR>> The Brits always say "The Germans
have no sense of humor."<BR><BR>Do you know there's a German stand-up comic
doing very well in Britain<BR>now? I think he makes fun of the German
stereotype.<BR><A
href="http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/artikel/993/54939/">http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/artikel/993/54939/</A><BR><BR>People
say there's no High German humour, so the fact that the<BR>dialects have humour
is overlooked.<BR>When I spent a year in German in the 1960s, at Berlin
University<BR>followed by Erlangen, I got on much better in Berlin than
Erlangen.<BR>Now I've been in Franconia for 22 years and I have reached the
point<BR>where Franconians will laugh at my jokes, at least....<BR><BR>> Get
to know this local Franconian matador Emil or Eugen, a great humorist, <BR>>
and let me know what you think about his sense of humor. You can ususally
<BR>> listen to him on the radio Bayern 3 on Fridays between 7:30 and 8:00
a.m. <BR><BR>It seems to be Erwin Pelzig. I think I have seen him on TV but
not<BR>really watched. Thanks for the tip. He seems very amusing. I
just<BR>listened to a clip about PISA:<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.br-online.de/bayern3/comedy/erwin-pelzig/artikel/index/index.xml">http://www.br-online.de/bayern3/comedy/erwin-pelzig/artikel/index/index.xml</A><BR><BR>If
anyone else here has an opinion on German humour, there are a<BR>number of clips
there you can listen to. And here's his own website:<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.pelzig.de/">http://www.pelzig.de/</A><BR><BR>Margaret<BR></TT>
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