WWI and Warren Harding

Monty Python got some good alliterative mileage out of that term in their movie “And Now For Something Completely Different.”  One sequence in the movie is a fake WWII British newsreel, in black and white, with suitably bombastic narration that includes the opening line “Yes, the war against the Hun continues – and as Britian’s brave boys battle against the Boche…”  By the standards of genuine WWII newsreels, that’s actually not as over-the-top as it sounds to modern ears.  And during a real WWII deception operation, the fake letter from General Nye to General Alexander which was the centrepiece of the “Mincemeat” disinformation scheme used such phrases as “We have had recent information that the Boche have been reinforcing and strengthening their defences in Greece and Crete…”

@Imperious:

This is why Tsingtao is a really good beer. it’s originally a German factory, taken by the Japanese then China in 1945.

It would be great to drink a beer with all you guys.

“Italy throws a punch at Austria and misses, but Austria falls over anyway.” Oh gawsh that part had me rolling.

This is another great one: http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6650094/facebook-news-feed-history-of-the-world-world-war-i-to-world-war-ii

Plutocracy is certainly not incompatible with imperialism.

Didn’t think it was terribly hard, although deciphering the antiquated grammar/question formulation, the jumbled resolution of the pic, and unfamiliar abbreviations of the arithmetic section made it unnecessarily difficult.  And the grammar section, which I never pay attention to and think it’s a lot of hoopla over arbitrary nonsense.

Everything else I passed with ease, more or less.

California would be in the largest states of the time, I think.

Thank you for the WWI topic.

Crap! With you guys doing Germany, USA, and UK in a row, I’m gonna have to repaint my whole BOTB game! Oh well, time to find the paints again…  :wink:

It is pretty big. I really don’t think I need the whole TB but it was on sale and I had $25 bucks in rewards certs from Best Buy so it was pretty cheap compared to even the other 1TB drives and per gig cheaper than the 500GB drives.

I’m still kind of having trouble wrapping my head around it really. I remember my Dad bringing home those giant serving platter sized ‘floppies’ that were something like 16KB.

I’m still a little freaked by my 30GB iPod with video.