[lbo-talk] Funny Germans...

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Fri Feb 13 10:50:40 PST 2004


----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>


> Long ago I read a piece by Ned Rorem in a Metropolitan Opera program
> that proclaimed, "There is nothing funny about the laughter of
> Germans."
>
> I guess the Nazi thing makes it ok to make rude generalizations about
> Germans that one would be too embarrassed to make about anyone else.

I hear they're really boring, too. I can make rude comments about Germans because it's my Blutrecht.

-- Luke



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