Hello Manti,
yes, I like it a lot. And I like to imagine the following circumstances of its birth: some Roman general or officer was invited to a meeting with German local chiefs, to discuss diplomatic or military issues, then there was a banquet and they had to drink... and at some time the German barbarians decided to have fun of the very civilized Roman officer and they told him a story, maybe the one they used to tell to strangers and tourists, and the officer reported everything to Caesar, except the drinking... and the whispers ("C'mon, Gunther, tell him the story of the elks") and the smiles of complicity of the Germans that he couldn't notice given his condition... And I like to imagine in some very small German village of today, a still live local tradition, transmitted from father to son, of a foreign soldier of whom the ancestors had a lot of fun long time ago...
But this does not answer the question if Caesar had the sense of humor or not... anyway, Pliny the Elder later reported Caesar's story in his
Natural History as a serious testimony... and it became indeed a true urban legend.
