Translating the German version of the Monty Python killer joke.

[Germanicus]

In the Monty Python sketch about a joke so funny it is deadly we are never told the joke in English, but a group of soldiers recite it across the trenches in German.

The German version of the joke used in the sketch is 'Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und slotermeyer?' 'Ja! Betherhund das Oder die Flipper waldi gersput!'
Of this only a few words are German; most of it consists of nonsense.
The sentenses do not make sense, though they give the impression of following a standard joke construction.
The first three words mean 'when is the ....'to which the answer is 'Ja-yes.
In the sketch the Germans try to fight back with a 'V-joke', which is broadcast on the radio, but without success.
The script reads; 'By December their joke was ready, Hitler gave the order for the German V-joke to be broadcast in English.'
Cut to a Forties wartime radio set with couple anxiously listening to it.
Radio (crackling German voice) 'Der ver zwei peanuts valking down the stasse, and von vas assaulted....
peanut. Ho Ho Ho!.
The couple look at each other and in blank amazement, at the radio.

[Birka]

The Holy Hand Grenade for you.

[Absinthe]

This is one of my favorite Python sketches, especially the scene from Triumph of Will where the Fuehrer tells the joke about his nose-less dog.

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