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From: Helge Tietz <helgetietz at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Humor" 2001.11.12 (02) [E]

I fully agree with that and I know a lot East Frisian
are quite capable of taking a joke and laugh about
themselves, something I sometimes believe the Germans,
who do this jokes are lacking when encountered
soemthing similar, e.g. jokes about world war 2. There
is a quite well known comedian from East Friesland
called Otto Waalkes, truely East Frisian of origion
and an East Frisian LS speaker as well who always came
up with jokes about the East Frisians himself and he
was probably one of the most popular comedians in
Germany, a lot of what he did was alomst Monty Pyton
like, in the sense of taking a stereotype to an
extreme and with that actually tackling prejudices. He
did a lot more positive for the reputation of East
Friesland and its inhabitants than against it.

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From: "Elsie Zinsser" <ezinsser at simpross.co.za>
Subject:  LL-L "Humor" 2001.11.12 (02) [E]


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