Originally Posted by
bcrdukes
Pardon my curiosity but what is a Manta bride? And what are Manta jokes? I'm not German but I took German throughout college not ever encountering this term?
It's a car. Opel Manta. Its driver (and their girlfriends) had a certain reputation. I think some of the Manta bride jokes I heard were in fact translations of Essex Girl jokes we have over here - or the other way round.