A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 3)

Ooops, this is where the post I made above about a picture that made me smile belongs. A twirling 8 year old on trump flopped on the floor is very smile worthy.

I don’t want to continue the hijack. I just didn’t catch the pun. I assure you that the English pun by @Pardel-Lux is much better than anything I could come up with in French.

Since others have posted about emphasis on the words, I just want to tell you how I’ve been parsing it. ‘Temper TanTrump’, I read as ‘temper tan’ Trump. So to clarify what I’ve already posted, I thought that ‘temper tan’ had a meaning.

Thank you for fighting my ignorance.

There no hijacks in the Pit, and this one is highly entertaining. I am learning a lot too. Just to clarify: I am not French. Pas du tout! I am half Spanish, half German. And of course the only one who understands German humour here is EinsteinsHund!

This is the first time I noticed the pun also, but that was because I don’t recall ever seeing it with the “temper” in it: it was always just “tanTrump”. Which I would have gotten had I been told it was a pun, but I just thought it was prefacing his name with an appropriate prefix like Mc or Fitz or the equivalent in other languages.

It is clever. Witty even. You can only wish you could be half as witty as Pardel-Lux. I got the pun immediately. If anybody didn’t get it, it isn’t Pardel-Lux’s fault. It’s especially apt because it fits so well.

Apologies.

I know one German joke, that I learned in a high school German class:

Ein bayerisches Mädchen sagte: „Küss mir, Kasimir!“ Kasimir sagte: „Nicht mir, mich!“ Das bayerische Mädchen sagte: „Küss mir, Kasimich!“ A Bavarian girl said, ‘Kiss, me, Kasimir!’ Kasimir said, 'Not mir, mich!’ The Bavarian girl said, ‘Kiss me, Kasimich!’

It was explained that using ‘mir’ in place of ‘mich’ was a Bavarian dialectical thing.

I like it. Back when Trump was first running, I floated the same ideas in an attempt to highlight his whiney name calling. I thought of “Trumper Tantrum” and then “temper tanTrump”, just like you. For some reason they never picked up and steam.

It took me a minute to access my high school German. I thought it was funny.

Ditto! I was proud of the fact the my high school German from decades ago was good enough to read and appreciate the joke. :blush:

It always sounds better in the original German.

:rofl:

:clap:

I’m afraid most non-Germans here would deny that such a thing even exists. :wink:

Since we are talking about obscure puns, “pirouette-work” was a pun on “wetwork”.

A key question…it’s World Cup or Euros, do you root for one or the other?

I root for Spain. Germany fucked it up in my book when they cheated with Austria to boot Algeria out in the WC 1982. I was 17 back then. I have not forgotten.
I forgave Austria when Spain beat them 9:0 in the qualifying games to the Euro 2000. They have been irrelevant to me ever since. I still have not forgiven Germany. Yes, I can hold a grudge.
The other football enemies (not rivals: enemies) are: Real Madrid. Italy. Bayern Munich. Berlusconi’s Milan.
/hijack
ETA: Oh, sorry, we’re in the Pit! There are no hijacks here. Much the better!

Using temper as the preceding word adds clarity, but I understood it the first time I saw “Tantrump”.

Trump’s favorite shoe company is suing him.

Damn, I thought it was going to be about his stupidity making their brand look stupid.

:rofl: that is hysterical!

To Trump’s credit, it’s something of a power move to force your flunkies to wear oversized shoes to please you. It’s almost like a kind of fraternity hazing.