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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6408 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 9 of 11 11 January 2012 at 5:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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A few decades ago, I read a joke similar to the OP's:
Heaven is an American salary, a British manor, a Japanese wife, and a Chinese cook. Hell is a Chinese salary, a Japanese apartment, a British cook, and an American wife. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5037 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 11 of 11 12 January 2012 at 11:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Interestingly I find these latter joke stereotypes more intuitive / easier to accept without thinking than the original OP's joke, except maybe about the Swiss -- it could also be length...? Edited by mrwarper on 12 January 2012 at 11:34am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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