Reality Check by Dave Whamond for September 01, 2021

Language matters. Adios gato!

It’s a katzenjammer kitten…

The Grim Reaper’s GERMAN? ;/

I think keine Leben would work better. Granted, it spoils the pun.

Now you know why it’s NOT used in airplane chatter.

As Paul Celan versified: Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deuschland.

Frumpkin!

Sprechen Sie Deutch? … Ich verstehe das nicht.

So … You don’t speak German? You don’t understand?

Say “Auf wiedersehen.”

Ach du lieber …!

Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives? (Stolen from my glow-in-the-dark t-shirt. After 50 years in the nuclear power field, I like humor of that sort.)

Must be the Griswold’s cat

Don’t you just love schadenfreude?

What question has the answer 9-W? “Mr. Wagner, do you spell your name with a ‘V’?” (“Nein, W …”)

Armando Iannucci once told a joke about how Italian cats had 0 lives. Oops, he misread it: Italian cats have Olives.