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Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969) - S01E01

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To a meeting of allied commanders

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At the ministry of war.

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Top brass were impressed.

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Tests on salisbury plain confirmed

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The joke's devastating effectiveness

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At a range of up to 50 yards.

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Fantastic.

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All through the winter of '43

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We had translators working in joke-proof conditions

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To try and produce a german version of the joke.

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They worked on one word each for greater safety.

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One of them saw two words of the joke

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And spent several weeks in hospital.

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But apart from that, things went pretty quickly

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And we soon had the joke by january

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In a form which our troops couldn't understand

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But which the germans could.

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So on july 8, 1944

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The joke was first told to the enemy in the ardennes.

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Squad, get ready joke!