Dear Gerard,
inside Germany it's apparently called "German Humour". There's a
Wikipedia entry for that as well. Go figure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_humor
Andreas
(still living on Sunday time)
On 02/04/2012 4:03, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote:
Dear Manfred,
Outside Germany, such excursions are called "humour". If you are
interested, here is the Wikipedia page for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour
--Gerard
PS: It was on a Sunday so all levity was perpetrated in people's own
time. Today we'll all be serious again and frown and tut-tut appropriately.