>German humor To be fair, the joke scans better in german, where "snail" is something you call someone who is being slow, and the Snail will often appear in jo

>German humor To be fair, the joke scans better in german, where "snail" is something you call someone who is being slow, and the Snail will often appear in jokes as the archetypal "slow" character, like the clever fox or the wise owl or the dumb blonde.