Posts Tagged ‘German’
Today’s chicken joke queries Goethe in his own language. Q: Warum hat der Hahn die Straße überquert? Goethe: Das Ewig-Weibchenliche zog ihn hinüber. Translation: Why did the chicken cross the road? The Eternal Hen lured him across. I think this one works a little better in German than English. It imposes the rustic word Weibchen, [...]
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Tags: 18th century, deutsch, German, German language, Goethe, poets, writers
Today the chicken joke queries King Frederick II “the Great” of Prussia (1712-1786). Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Old Fritz: To force the chicken on the other side to fall back.
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Tags: 18th century, generals, German, kings, Prussian, Seven Years War, soldiers
Chicken joke: Nietzsche
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Friedrich Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.
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Tags: 19th century, German, Nietzsche, philosophers, psychologists, wish-I-thoughta-that
Chicken joke: Schopenhauer
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Schopenhauer: It was driven by the incessant striving of the will, only to become dissatisfied upon reaching the other side.
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Tags: 19th century, German, pessimism, philosophers, Schopenhauer
Chicken joke: Meinecke
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Friedrich Meinecke: This event should be understood as resulting from an alliance of the free German avian spirit with the machinery of the Pomeranian Goose state. In the long run, due to a series of unforeseeable accidents, this movement toward liberation ended in a disaster of historic [...]
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Tags: 20th century, German, German history, historians, Meinecke
Chicken joke: Marx
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Karl Marx: It was driven by the lash of economic necessity.
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Tags: 19th century, economists, German, Marxism, philosophers, wish-I-thoughta-that
