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[shinytoaster]

I was hoping I wouldn't have to explain the joke I made yesterday, but none of you ignorami seemed to get it. Einbahn Strasse means One Way Street, so logically there would be quite a lot of them and they wouldn't have been able to find their car.

God, I feel so dirty. Comment now I've explained it, please? Validate me?

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[owlman.livejournal.com]

Or we got it, laughed at with colleagues, and chose not to reply ;)

[february-sea.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll 'fess up: I had to Google the phrase because I don't speak German. But I *did* Google the phrase, and I did get it, and I did laugh. :D I'm just a lazy ickle and didn't comment. :P

*snuggles you*

[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

I thought it was funny. :P

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

. . . I feel so stupid for not thinking to translate that. My German's terribly poor, but not that terribly poor--now that I know that Einbahn Strasse is not just a lovely street name, your post was hilarious. =)

[piperki.livejournal.com]

I laughed...

[misscora.livejournal.com]

I'm with Simon - got it, laughed, failed to reply.

[mockduck.livejournal.com]

I got it, and I don't even speak German.

[wednesdayschild.livejournal.com]

I got it the first time :P

[psychic-serpent.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got it. Something similar happened to my oldest sister when she first moved to Germany in 1969 and I remembered her story. If it had been some German I didn't recognize I'd have just put it through Babelfish. (Perhaps adding a footnote saying, "Babelfish is your friend!" would help on posts with untranslated non-English.)

[shezan.livejournal.com]

I found it funny & I got the joke the first time round...

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

*pipes up from the cheap seats* I thought it was funny, and was pleased that my high-school German hadn't gone completely to waste. The poor hooligans! :p

[kazzik.livejournal.com]

"but none of you ignorami seemed to get it."

You have Germans on your list you comment whore you, I think it's safe to say that at least a few did :P

Plus me and my amazing German GCSE, in which I learnt basic conversational skills (mostly pointing and speaking English slowly) and that if someone mentioned the Berlin Wall in class we could put our books away and daydream because the tutor would be irrevocably distracted for the rest of the period.

And, apparently, the meaning of Einbahn Strasse. Although I admit I'd have spelt it with a funky B.

[sophie10.livejournal.com]

I googled it and then laughed. I gave up German at age 13...

[stormwynd.livejournal.com]

Thanks to 4 years of high school German, I did get it, but I was skimminng my flist really quickly and didn't take the time to reply.

[catlily.livejournal.com]

I got it (did study German, you know), laughed and read it to husband, who didn't get it at all. Duh.

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a very funny joke. I am just a lazy commenter!

[sofiaviolet]

I didn't quite get it when I read it. I had to ask my mother to translate - she knows some German. I thought the sign said "No parking."

And I suck at commenting. Sorry.