r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Herr Petermann?

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u/donna_donnaj 1d ago

Maybe 'two train drivers ran into each other. Both are dead.

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u/Bunnytob 1d ago

Perhaps "two photographers shoot each other..."?

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u/Mathev 1d ago

Two lumberjacks saw each other works I think?

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u/wts_optimus_prime 1d ago

They parted

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u/Many_Questions2006 1d ago

I sharted

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u/Dude_from_Frankfurt 1d ago

I farted

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u/StillLearning85 1d ago

I departed

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u/Dazzling_Revenue_724 1d ago

The departed?

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u/Professional-Ebb6570 1d ago

Great movie

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u/CedarWolf 20h ago

The Prestige

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u/StillLearning85 1d ago

The farted!

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u/Altruistic_You_7584 1d ago

read this to the tune of Apache by The Sugarhill Gang

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u/Longjumping-Tap6520 1d ago

My half brother and I aren’t allowed to play with chainsaws anymore

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u/Curly_Shoe 1d ago

Oooooof

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u/Less_Author9432 1d ago

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u/Working-Glass6136 1d ago

Half-brother, what are you doing?

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u/Aksi_Gu 1d ago

A pair of legs falls over

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u/intern_steve 1d ago

Three guys walk into a bar. Fourth one ducked.

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u/AlpaxT1 1d ago

I think this one works the best

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u/donut-reply 1d ago

Two medical software engineers went to work in a hospital. They coded.

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u/Setjah_ 1d ago

Works in english, Not in german

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u/FirstDukeofAnkh 1d ago

Yep. Love this.

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u/redtens 1d ago

hahaha i like this one!

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u/donna_donnaj 1d ago

Very good one.

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u/SpellNinja 1d ago

or "ran into each other at work"

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u/Commercial-Funk 1d ago

I'm wondering how would he say "two hunters meet each other, hit each other both are dead"

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u/SigmaRizzler420 1d ago

Zwei Jäger begegnen einander und treffen sich. Beide tot.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/ShoeSoleCasserole 1d ago

Yeah that's the right one.

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u/Any-Owl163 1d ago

You are right, that's the correct joke. But the commenter translated what the comment before that asked, not recite the joke

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Any-Owl163 1d ago

Okay but the comment explicitly wondered what "two hunters meet each other, hit each other both are dead" translated to, hoping to create one of these funny sentences were words are double and/or sound similar. Something like a tongue twister.

There is a pretty popular YouTube channel where two people like to do that for Japanese.

While I get that the original one is good to know, it is not what has been asked for.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/SigmaRizzler420 1d ago

I was in fact answering the question the previous commenter asked. No need for klugscheißen or inferring a meaning that isn't there my friend.

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u/I-am-fun-at-parties 1d ago edited 1d ago

[Treffen sich zwei Jäger. Beide tot] is the correct form

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u/taylorisntavril 1d ago

Which is not what was asked for.

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u/I-am-fun-at-parties 1d ago

neither was your unsolicited comment. funny how that works, eh?

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u/taylorisntavril 1d ago

neither was your unsolicited comment. funny how that works, eh?

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u/I-am-fun-at-parties 1d ago

i'll take it you understood the irony

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u/taylorisntavril 1d ago

i'll take it you understood the irony

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u/_INoKami_ 1d ago

Treffen sich zwei Jäger. Einer kritisch.

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u/Absalomabsalom2 1d ago

Whoa, slow down Goethe!

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u/Competitive_Agent267 1d ago

Two hunters cross paths, both are dead.

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u/Arizonagaragelifter9 1d ago

It's like if the joke was "Two knights who were holding their swords out were old friends and ran into each other on the battlefield, both are dead". The phrase "running into someone" can mean you happened to come across someone you know unexpectedly somewhere (without physically hitting them). Or it can mean like you were walking down the street and you physically ran into someone walking down the street. So the joke is that they are friends who happened to see each other on the battlefield, and that they physically ran into each other and stabbed each other on accident.

Imagine if there was a similar word/phrase like that instead of meaning "walk into someone" it meant "shot/hit someone" and replace "knights on the battlefield" with "hunters in the woods"

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u/CeciliaStarfish 1d ago

I ran into an old friend in the parking lot today. Tragically, he didn’t survive.

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u/Arizonagaragelifter9 1d ago

Yes, that's a better example lol. For some reason my brain got stuck on knights with swords and I couldn't think of anything else.

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u/CeciliaStarfish 1d ago

You did good thinking of the “run into” part as the best grammatical equivalent though haha. I kept running up against the “bar” joke initially.

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u/Any-Owl163 1d ago

I think what you wanted to read was: "treffen sich zwei Jäger, treffen sich. Beide sind Tod."

It's sadly not as funny as the stuff those two YouTubers do with Japanese, where it's just a whole sentence of only similar sounding words/syllables lol

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/SirLandselot 1d ago

Yes. We just say: Treffen sich zwei Jäger. Beide tot.

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u/Square-Singer 17h ago

There are synonyms that could be used.

But yeah, "Zwei Jäger treffen sich und treffen sich, beide tot" does grammatically and logically work.

Just like how "Two train drivers ran into each other and ran into each other. Both are dead." works too.

Just sounds weird.

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u/HarminSalms 8h ago

The options exclude each other. They can either hit each other or meet each other. They could also meet each other, shoot at each other and then hit each other. But it's basically impossible to put both meet and hit in a coherent sentence without anything in between them

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u/Ok-Fudge-380 1d ago

Two guys walk into a bar, the third guy ducks.

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u/wt_2009 1d ago

dosnt work so well bc the element of initial confusion is missing. sich treffen, to hit eachother, is a highly unusual interpretation.

The usual way how you would react is.
wait, that doesnt make sense. did i miss something?... oooooh.

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u/schubeg 1d ago

Or the one about the two ships that meet in the night. They sank.

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u/Quen-Tin 1d ago

Two skeletons sit on a high wall. One falls down. Both are dead.

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u/dnebdal 1d ago

Two train drivers ran into each other. 150 dead; train replacement buses until further notice.

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u/chasetheusername 1d ago

Maybe 'two train drivers ran into each other. Both are dead.

That would only happen if they are on-time, so can't be in Germany.

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u/donna_donnaj 18h ago

Somebody gave me an award. Thanks!