Talk:East German jokes

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[edit] List of jokes

Please note that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, and as such is not to be used as a repository of jokes. Isopropyl 17:51, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

These jokes are supposed to illustrate political and "ethnical" relations between Germans. Some cleanup by an english native speaker who understands the German issues would be helpful. --Matthead 19:17, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

For native English speakers who are not familiar with these German issues, can you suggest some relevant parts of the Wikipedia for reading to gain some familiarity with the subject matter? It may be easier to train an English speaker into becoming an expert on the issues at hand rather than finding an expert on the issues who has excellent English language skills. Alternatively, it may be worthwhile to change the cleanup tag to an expert tag, or one of the translation tags. BigNate37 11:17, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Isopropyl, check out Talk:Russian jokes and how the Russian jokes article was cleaned up for another possible alternative to the general cleanup tag. BigNate37 11:47, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Banana jokes

I have a strong suspicion that banana jokes were blossoming after the fall of Berlin Wall. I've been in GDR for numerous occasions and I can vouch that there was more banana in late GDR than in USSR. Of course they were infrequent. But the first time I've heard a banana joke (which was actually kind of serious witticism) after the unuting: "For the first time in their life East Germans have eaten bananas it will".

So, here is a question: are there native East Germans old enough to confirm the time frame of banana jokes? `'mikkanarxi 22:39, 30 November 2006 (UTC)