What's your favorite joke that doesn't translate to English very well?

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What's your favorite joke that doesn't translate to English very well? - Lemmy.World

Give me your wordplay and obscure culture references, I love them all.

No matter how sloshed you may be, Goethe was a poet.

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“Dicht” is a word for “drunk/pissed/sloshed”. “Dichter” is both “poet” and “more sloshed”.

Oh God there are so many of these.

No matter how young your friends are, Jesus's friends were apostles.

No matter how well you drive, trains drive freight.

No matter how empty you feel, remember, there others who are teachers (this one works out unexpectedly well)

No matter how well you drive, trains drive freight.

I didn’t know that one and it makes me so happyyy yaaay :D