Dog Wanted - non English puns

Wanted: a dog that neither barks nor bites, eats glass and shits diamonds.

I learned this expression as a youth, in a language that was not my first.
I don't know if this expression is truly from that language, or from French.
Anyway, this gave me (the young little cynic at the time) a quick laugh, and I got a boost that it was indeed worth the effort of acquiring a new language - if only even to view things through different lenses and filters.

Think about how many cultures seem to be preoccupied with the anus. Some more than others, obviously - like German.
The world-cultural icon of Freud (similar: die Freude = the joy) is born of the Germanic world.
Q.E.D.

This post ©reated by Ribonuff on October 13, 2007.