Who can translate German?

[The Backlash Cometh]

This one is going over my head. I think "meat imports" is suppose to be a cue, but the guy is too old for something that lame to cause that much laughter.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-viral-video-politician-laughing,0,1745919.htmlstory

[Call Me Wesley]

1. It's mostly because he reads one of these documents about

meat imports and taxes that are written by bureaucrats in their language, so the text itself sounds quite bizarre ...

Second time this happened in the Swiss parliament. This one's about some strange question asked about tax deductions on different horses:
http://www.videoportal.sf.tv/video?id=84362b3d-7f2c-4115-b854-b0d5103c4c12

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

3. We need some of that

stuff they are smoking in der Schweiz!

[Call Me Wesley]

6. He quite looks that way,

where everything would have cracked him up. ;) He really can't hold it when he has to say 'Bündnerfleisch,' which is a somewhat regional beef jerky here.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Thanks.

[crim son]

2. My ex husband speaks German.

I'll have him watch it when I see him next.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Give it a shot.

I want in on the joke.

[Call Me Wesley]

8. It's not really a joke,

just the bureaucratic language. He answers a question about tax classifications of spiced meat. Nothing funny at all, he just cracks up and loses it really when he has to read the word 'Bündnerfleisch,' which is regional beef jerky.

[Swede]

7. A German guy probably could.

Sorry.:shrug:

[Heidi]

10. A Swiss guy, too.

;)

[Call Me Wesley]

9. I forgot this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2WaNYTmOkg

[applegrove]

11. I can say two sentences in German. I use it all the time. "Wein is di poste often auto, nine ze is

amzonta Gueshlochen" but I can't spell it!!! LOL!

[Generic Brad]

12. Hans Gruber

He could have translated if John McClain had not killed him.

[Dr Morbius]

14. Now, that's not fair.

Gruber was trying to rip off his wife's Rolex, after all.

[HEyHEY]

13. JVS can

[BootinUp]

15. My older sister

unfortunately she is not here.

She studied in Germany for a year to immerse in the language. I think of myself as a geek but I must admit she out geeks me.

[mnhtnbb]

16. Sending it to my son who is a German major in his third year at college

and spent 7 weeks in Berlin this year on summer study program. I'll see if he gets it.