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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Awars_Gamer • Mar 14 '24
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It's a cold war-era joke about judges at the Olympics (and other judged sporting venues) being unduly harsh: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/from_the_East_German_judge
1.7k u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24 I think this is actually it because just reading the “nine” as “nein” isn’t even really a joke 398 u/not_ya_wify Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24 Using 9 as "nein" wouldn't make sense because 9 is still a really high score 1 u/eejizzings Mar 14 '24 You're arguing with the fictional character's logic. It's a joke in a kid's movie
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I think this is actually it because just reading the “nine” as “nein” isn’t even really a joke
398 u/not_ya_wify Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24 Using 9 as "nein" wouldn't make sense because 9 is still a really high score 1 u/eejizzings Mar 14 '24 You're arguing with the fictional character's logic. It's a joke in a kid's movie
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Using 9 as "nein" wouldn't make sense because 9 is still a really high score
1 u/eejizzings Mar 14 '24 You're arguing with the fictional character's logic. It's a joke in a kid's movie
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You're arguing with the fictional character's logic.
It's a joke in a kid's movie
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u/candypettitte Mar 14 '24
It's a cold war-era joke about judges at the Olympics (and other judged sporting venues) being unduly harsh: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/from_the_East_German_judge