SPEAKING GERMAN IN
TEXAS. In Texas there is a town called New
Braunfels, where there is a large German-speaking
population.
One day, a local rancher driving down a
country road noticed a man using his hand to drink water from the rancher's
stock pond. The rancher rolled down the window and
shouted: "Sehr angenehm! Trink das Wasser nicht. Die kuehe haben darein
geschissen." This means: "Glad to meet you! Don't
drink the water. The cows have shit in it." The man shouted back: "I'm from New
York and just down here campaigning for Obama's health care
plan. I can't understand you. Please speak in
English." The rancher replied: "Use both
hands."
