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A Joke for Muriel
Hi Muriel,

Do you know "Knock-Knock" jokes?

"Knock-Knock!"

"Who's there?"

"Control Freak"--[now you take the person by the arm and say excitedly]--"Now you say 'Control Freak Who?'!"

Definition: 'control freak' is slang for a neurotic person who has an anxiety and compulsion to control the behavior of other people.

Anyone in America knows how a "Knock-knock joke" goes. The person who answers repeats the person's name and says "N who?" But the control freak is afraid the other one does not know the response and so the control freak has to tell the other one what to do. Do you get it?

"Get it" means understand a joke. But the expression is also used to describe anyone who doesn't understand a fact that is plain to everyone else. "He just doesn't get it."

Can you translate the joke into French?

Or is there anyone who would like to translate it into Deutch or Italiano?

Mark

Language pair: English; French

Mark
Alterman
October 22, 2005

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