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"Joffes" (Yves Klein joke)

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Bart Eeltink

Free Account, Rhein-Sieg Kreis

"Joffes" (Yves Klein joke)

The real picture has a very intense blue, but somehow it's impossible to capture this color with a camera.
Anyway, about the title:
a friend of mine works as a teacher in a very antisocial part of Germany. The people in this area are "simple", not to say "retarted". One day, a new kid entered class. She asked him what his name was. He replied "Joffes". As my friend thought this is a very perculiar name, she asked him to spell it. The boy is 5 years old, but couldn't tell how to write his name. Later that day his mother arrived. My friend asked her about his name. The mother also replied "Joffes". When she asked how it's spelled, the mother replied "Y-V-E-S"...