I'm reading a book by Steven Jacobi, Laughing Matters.
Towards (or back at) the start he explains how one of his Grandfathers , who happened to be an SS officer, had a good sense of humour however the other, an Englishman, didn't have one at all.
From the humorless one :
"Take the Marx Bros for example "Oh, I'm sick of messages from the front. Don't we ever get a message from the side? - What is it?'

That is about the war for goodness sake! what's funny about that ? "

Yes , indeed... .
Franco
(that was a Groucho line from Duck Soup)

Speaking of the SS...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK-kWRAVmRU&feature=related

That is exactly why Nazi Germany lost the war.
Too many of them Mitchell types asking silly questions instead of gulping down Pervitin and getting on with the job.
Franco