Leaving you speechless – with snippets

Some short noted snippets for the kind readers of my blog:

Snippet No. 1:

She: “TV is not working, there are no images on the screen.”
He:   “You pressed the wrong button as always.”
She:  “No.”
He:   “Yes.”
She:  “No.”
He:    “Yes.”
(…) half an hour later :
He:   “Oh, I see, TV needs an update.”
She:   “…”.

Snippet No. 2:

Had a walk in the woods lately, met a huge but still young dog with his mistress.
We started to play a little bit and have been asking:
“Oh, nice, what’s your dog’s name?” “Rambo.” was the short answer,
the name pronounced in German, with an ‘ah!’.
“Hi Rämbo” I greeted the dog because immediateley I remembered the Rambo movies.
“No, Rambo.”, again pronounced with the German ‘ah!’ was the short and humourless correction.
“(…)”

Snippet No. 3:
Lots of cyclists are using the sidewalks meanwhile, a bit annoying for us using the sidewalks in the way they are meant to be used: For walking.
Here are some recommendations, me and other dog owners worked out for you
showing your anger but are not too offensive at the same time:

“Oh, still under 10 years old?”
“This is a walkway, not a driveway.”
“Please dismount and walk.”
Or just say nothing at all: “(…).
More ideas? Welcome!

Snippet No. 4:
And to all the dog owners in the city: Dispose your doggie dos correctly.
Throw that beat, ah, sorry, no, this a song 😉 So: Throw the doggie dos into the public trash cans. Nobody really wants to step into ‘you know what I mean…’.

In the countryside please follow other regulations as indicated.

Humor (in Germany)

Humor always is a topic and sometimes the best way to talk about things – here as well as in other countries. After Dieter Hildebrandt and others like him quit the boards, the stage has not been filled with real equivalents in my eyes… regarding political humor resp. satire.

Yet we have a Jan Böhmermann – OK, a bit hard to laugh about sometimes, as Mr. Erdogan knows, but still, he gives political satire a new twist. And appears in other formats as well. Lately, I very much enjoyed a short commercial of the “ZDF”, one of the two public TV channels in Germany:

Young woman in a supermarket, obviously lookin’ for a special product, but the shelves all filled with the same product – and obviously not with the one she intends to buy.

Cashier, famous TV news anchor Claus Cleber (I am always wondering if this is an alias, what a name…. Like Hanni Hüsch. Or Gundula Gause… come on – these names cannot be real… sound like comic characters, Gundula Gause… reminds me of Duckberg’s Gundel Gaukeley, you call her Magica de Spell…) shouts out a promotion for a fabric softener – and all of a sudden all the shelves are filled with the same fabric softener.

Young woman, irritated, asking shop assistant Jan Böhmermann: “And where do I find the olives?”

“Well, of course tomorrow at 4.10 p.m. sharp – right after the show XY.”

Brilliant. Pure comedy – on a public TV channel. Great.

P.S.: Anyone able to tell me the name of the young woman?