Today is Adolf Hitler's birthday. Monday is St George's Day. It's going to be one long weekend of parties.
There is a free download you can get which allows you to put whatever subtitles you want on the clip of 'Downfall' when the generals are explaining to Hitler (Bruno Ganz) that he has lost the war. I have got this download but I have never used it. I don't think I could compete with some of the very good scripts that are already up on You Tube.
Google did not put up a 'Happy Birthday Hitler' frontispiece above the search box - my German dentist mate alerted me by SMS. He included a photo of his gay technician sporting a small black Hitler moustache. I don't think you are allowed to make jokes of that sort in Germany - at least not in public.
Thomas and I have an informal game which we sporadically play with each other, and that is to apologise for the discovery of unexploded WW2 bombs in each other's country. He apologised for the 1000 pound German one found in Bath last year, and shortly afterwards a freshly subtitled Downfall clip came up on You Tube.
The area in which it was found was up the hill in the wealthy Lansdown area, and the Downfall subtitles had Hitler saying that all those rich, middle-class people deserved the inconvenience. Everyone laughed.
Yesterday they found a British WW2 unexploded bomb in Berlin and they have evacuated streetfulls of people in case it goes pop. I apologised on behalf of the nation. Now it's his turn.
An elderly man said he witnessed a massive bomb fall into the river next to where out new bus station now is, and he waited for an explosion which never happened.
They trawled the river Avon for days looking for it buried in the mud, but they never found it. It is still there, and one day it might do us all a favour and destroy the hideous new bus station which they demolished a good-looking stone building to build. I will call Thomas to thank him when that happens.
Sorry if I have already told you about this, but today's news has been sidelined for Hitler's birthday.
Today is also the international cannabis day.
ReplyDeleteNamed after Adolf Cannabis, no doubt.
DeleteAt first glance I thought this post was called Bong Ping Pong!
DeleteIs it...? ... cool...
DeleteI wonder how deep a bomb sinks itself into a river. Until it stops, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteThis river is only about 10 feet deep. I don't know how deep the mud is.
DeleteAnother useless piece of information to add to my ever growing collection - you never know when it might come in useful = Pub Quiz anyone?
ReplyDeleteYes. Log it for future use.
DeleteA variation of snap, your game with Tomas.
ReplyDeleteSnap, crackle and pop.
DeleteCrackerjack!
DeleteHooray!
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