That reminds me of a German joke about the German Democratic Republic ("East Germany"): Ein Mann geht in ein Kaufhaus in der DDR. Er fragt den Verkäufer: "Gibt

That reminds me of a German joke about the German Democratic Republic ("East Germany"): Ein Mann geht in ein Kaufhaus in der DDR. Er fragt den Verkäufer: "Gibt's hier keine Socken?" – "Nein, hier gibt's keine Hosen. Keine Socken gibt's in der zweiten Etage." Translated (roughly): A man visits a department store in East Germany. He asks the shop assistant: "Do you have no socks here?" – "No, we have no trousers. No socks are on the second floor." (The joke relies on the word order of German syntax; properly translated, the dialog would be: "Don't you have any socks?" – "No, we don't have any trousers. No socks are on the second floor" But then the joke doesn't really make sense anymore.)