German

person

collective noun

phobia

light bulb joke

Cockney Rhyming Slang

is a mixture of clay and spirit. He is perfectly earth with his beer drinking and smoking and stolid ways but in his poetry he is full of ethereal fire that bursts out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.

These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth... but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursting out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus. Harriet Beecher Stowe

is a people for whom a joke is no laughing matter.

is a people in whom there is a peculiar sense of life as a mathematical problem which is known to have a solution.

One could almost believe that in this people there is a peculiar sense of life as a mathematical problem which is known to have a solution.

is an extravagantly ugly language which sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.

German is the most extravagantly ugly language. It sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.

is a people who won't eat what can't be stuffed into an animal casing.

If the Germans can't stuff it into an animal casing they won't eat it.

is a cruel race, for their operas last for six hours and they have no word for 'fluffy'.

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for 'fluffy'.

is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.

is a language which was devised solely to afford the speaker the opportunity to spit at strangers under the guise of polite conversation.

german, n.All

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