Talk:Little rabbit jokes

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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Amkgp (talk) 09:51, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

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• ... that little rabbit jokes, with a rabbit visiting a place and asking, "Hattu Möhrchen?" (Do you have carrots?), first emerged in East Germany in the early 1970s as being politically subversive?

• Reviewed: Penneech

Created by Satellithias (talk). Nominated by SL93 (talk) at 02:59, 28 November 2020 (UTC).

• Comment. I immediately thought of Mr Chad, sarcastic British graffiti from WWII. Narky Blert (talk) 19:13, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
• Withdraw: Too many errors as well as wrong translations. SL93 (talk) 15:09, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
• Withdrawn by nom.  JGHowes  ^talk 03:51, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Möhrchen

"Möhre" is "carrot", "Hase" is "hare" (not really "rabbit" = "Kaninchen"), "Möhrchen" is diminutive as is "Häschen". Are the English sources that unprecise? "Little carrot" instead of just "carrots" would be a step forwards. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:53, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt How do you think the article should be fixed? I did more searches and I can see that these are actually called "little hare jokes" so it seems like an article rename is needed also. SL93 (talk) 14:44, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

That, and saying at least "little carrots" or whatever English can do to indicate smallness seems a minimum, and those English sources being in the article. "Möhrchen" is almost an invented word, - I'd never use that in normal talk, if not telling a Häschenwitz which I haven't done in decades. Another point the article should make: all this seems history, and I wonder if it's even notable. Viola jokes seem to be perennial ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:49, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt I figure that this isn't worth my time. I'm just going to withdraw the DYK. SL93 (talk) 15:09, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Understand, sorry if I was the cause for your time wasted. Perhaps worth trying to get the author involved? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:24, 30 November 2020 (UTC)