Re: OT: national humor

Stone Gordonssen scripsit:

> German, Spanish or French humor.
A German professor (that is, a professor who was German, not a professor of
German) once wrote a three-volume work on _das komische_.  For the rest of
his days, whenever anyone said something funny, he would nod his head and
say "Ja, es gibt dem Witz."

--
John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com  www.reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan
I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them
alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag
went over me.  I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am
Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.  --Bilbo to Smaug