Obama's Berlin Speech and Humor

[Marley23]

@tagos

You can’t be here much then.

I’m here plenty.

I have a mordant sense of humour but I’d be most surprised if he isn’t assassinated.

Which is hilarious… I guess.

I fell asleep between the Eagle has Landed and One Small Step.

Okay, well, that makes sense. It sounded like you were connect Neil Armstrong to either JFK’s assassination or a future assassination of Obama.

[Bosstone]

@Marley23

Okay, well, that makes sense. It sounded like you were connect Neil Armstrong to either JFK’s assassination or a future assassination of Obama.

I personally read it as tagos keeps missing out on history as it happens, and Obama’s definitely earning his place in history even if he doesn’t win the election. I didn’t catch the assassination link, though.

[tagos]

@Marley23

I’m here plenty.

Which is hilarious… I guess.

Eddie Murphy still has a career so go figure. I thought every knew it was Armstrong on the grassy knoll?

[Marley23]

@Bosstone

I personally read it as tagos keeps missing out on history as it happens, and Obama’s definitely earning his place in history even if he doesn’t win the election.

Yeah, maybe so. Either way, life goes on- including for Obama, one hopes.

[dropzone]

@tagos

It was in the early hours of the morn in the UK and I was just a kid.

And it took a really, REALLY long time for him to, as near as I figured as a kid, unlatch his seatbelt and open the door.

[Moriarty]

@tagos

I watched the Obama speech live on TV and watch him live as often as I can 'cos I missed out on the assassination of JFK as it wasn’t on live TV in the UK…

Neither was it in the U.S.

[Happy_Lendervedder]

@Merkwurdigliebe

He’s been funny.

I like his Mitt Romney:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pO1dIKgfPw

I like his Jay-Z:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c1cf78470f

(Link rated NSFW due to language)

[Measure_for_Measure]

@bdgr

He worded it correctly. While it could also mean a donut, the above example of saying your a new yorker would not mean you are a magazine is spot on.
Ich bin ein Berliner - Wikipedia

Those who are wary of wikipedia can read this about.com article:
Humor & Whimsy

@p.2 of my link

Linguist Jürgen Eichhoff laid decades of misinformation to rest with a concise grammatical analysis of Kennedy’s statement in the academic journal Monatshefte in 1993. “‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ is not only correct,” Eichhoff wrote, “but the one and only correct way of expressing in German what the President intended to say.”

An actual Berliner would say, in proper German, “Ich bin Berliner.” But that wouldn’t have been the correct phrase for Kennedy to use. The indefinite article “ein” is required, Eichhoff explains, to express a metaphorical identification between subject and predicate. Otherwise, the speaker could be taken to say he is literally a citizen of Berlin.

[Oy]

Well, if the legend isn’t well known in Germany, it would have fallen flat on its face, so I’m glad he didn’t say it.

Sorry it took so long for me to respond, but apparently an 18 wheeler rolled by in front of my house yesterday and ripped out my telephone and cable.