Dedicated to Lordnoble, who made me recall it when he wrote in my thread that "intimate" and "wife" were some kind of oxymoron. My thought on that was, "What are you talking about? I find your wife is always quite intimate with me."
Here's the joke:
IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFINE SAVOIR FAIRE?
An American man touring London happened to befriend a German, an Englishman and a Frenchman. They were sitting in a pub discussing important matters of the day when the American recalled a lingering question from his childhood, regarding the cartoon expression, "Savoir Faire is everywhere." What does savoir faire mean?
The Europeans agreed there was no exact translation. They would have to produce an example. The German agreed to go first.
"Savoir faire ist venn une man comes to his home und finds his vife sleeping with ein ander man, but only pours himself a glass of wine and denn valks back out. Dat man, he has savoir-faire."
The Englishman begged to differ. "No, no. I say. No. Savoir faire is better demonstrated by the man who, when he walks in to find his wife in bed with another man, can sit down, sip his tea, and tell the other fellow to please, do carry on. That man has savoir-faire."
The Frenchman responds, "Mais non. You have it completely wrong. That is an Englishman being cuckholded. Listen to me. If a man finds his wife with another man in his bed, and he tells this man to carry on, and the man in the bed, *can*, it is that man who has savoir faire."
Bon jour!