"In German, oder Englisch, I know how to count down Und I'm learning Chinese!" - as relevant as ever. Maybe less so German and more matrix multiplication
"'Nazi Schmazi' says Werner von Braun" is an amazing joke
It had me in stitches when I first heard and I really wondered how big a fraction of his audience got that one.
A fairly intellectual audience, in the 50s and 60s when the space race was big news and von Braun's Nazi past was recent history? I'd guess a majority.
Is there a specific joke in "Nazi Schmazi" besides the general idea that he wasn't picky about what regime he worked for?
Yiddish
Ah, I am so used to that as a general wordplay pattern that I didn't think about the origin, good point!
Do you mean it sounds like it could be a Yiddish word? Because it doesn't seem to be an actual Yiddish (or German) word, as far as I can tell.
Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department.