Scrap it

Whilst filling up tanks with fuel in a barracks in Germany, a German asked me if I knew where there was a Schrotthändler. Mistaking it for Schottländer in the din, it took a few minutes for the penny to drop and had a very amusing dialogue before both breaking into laughter.

Editor's note: ein Schrotthändler is a scrapdealer and ein Schottländer or ein Schotte is a Scotsman.

Sent by: John

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Schnee2006-01-23

One might add that Schottländer while technically correct, is not a word you'd actually use to refer to a Scotsman in German - you'd always say Schotte.

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