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What is the difference between a Nazi and a dog?
The Nazi lifts his arm.

— Victor Borge

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Source: Comic routine in pre-invasion Denmark, quoted in Victor Borge, 91, Comic Piano Virtuoso, Dies" in The New York Times (24 December 2000)
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