I wouldn't count on that...he building a squadron of full size replica Lancaster
Posted on 06/10/2011 4:57:20 AM PDT by naturalman1975
The Dambusters dog N****r will be renamed Digger for a modern remake of the iconic film to avoid offending American viewers, it has emerged.
Script writer Stephen Fry, 53, has confirmed that pilot Guy Gibson's faithful black Labrador will be renamed for the forthcoming Peter Jackson movie.
In the original 1955 film Gibson's dog's name was spoken 12 times as a code word to report successful dam breaches to RAF Bomber Command.
But Fry, who is writing the script for the long-awaited remake, has revealed he will now be renamed Digger to avoid offending American viewers.
He said: 'There is no question in America that you could ever have a dog called the N-word.
'It's no good saying that it is the Latin word for black or that it didn't have the meaning that it does now - you just can't go back, which is unfortunate.
'You can go to RAF Scampton and see the dog's grave and there he is with his name, and it's an important part of the film.
'The name of the dog was a code word to show that the dam had been successfully breached.
'In the film, you're constantly hearing 'n-word, n-word, n-word, hurray' and Barnes Wallis is punching the air.
'But obviously that's not going to happen now. So Digger seems okay, I reckon.'
The iconic 1955 film tells the story of British Second World War scientists who developed a bouncing bomb as a means of attacking Germany's dams.
During the film a special squadron of Lancaster bombers, 617 Squadron, is formed and trained by Wing Commander Guy Gibson.
His black Labrador dog N*gger is present throughout the film and his name repeatedly used as a code word to report successful breaches of dams.
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I don't think Mr. Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) will be redoing his routine any time soon...
We all knew what you meant anyway :)
My buddy works for Worksource in L.A. and he has heard N***** so many times, especially with the welfare office across the hall. It really is true. At the welfare office, it’s 10 to 1 black to mexican and it’s N this..N that.
You must not be a war movie/airplane buff....
It happened last spring. Didn’t make it up. If it’s a cuss word for whites, it’s a cuss word for everybody.
I wouldn't count on that...he building a squadron of full size replica Lancaster
Ah, contraire. It´s just that I hadn´t been ¨long awaiting¨ a remake.
That wasn’t the casus belli of the War Between the States.
I'm having a hard time linking five sailors who died when their Cruiser went down with the irony of sending a squad into harms way to bail a single surviving son out of infantry combat.
Seems the only point of comparison is that the navy allowed all five sons to be assigned together while the services in general avoided the practice...and would pull the last surviving son from combat if possible.
Historical note of incredible importance: USS Sullivans was the first model ship I ever built.
Do you mean “The Fighting Sullivans’’?
I was thinking of the Civil Rights struggle, when white DemoKKKrats tried to keep black people from getting Civil Rights. The struggle ended in the 1970’s when african-americans became a reliable Democrat vote. If blacks start voting >25% GOP in future elections, look for the white sheets & church bombings to begin again.
I was wondering about that, since there's only one airworthy Lancaster left, I believe.
Incorrect usage! The present nomenclature is based on the Hollywood/New York model, which gives us J-Lo for Jennifer Lopez, and A-Rod for Alex Rodriguiz. Thus Barack H. Obama is now to be known as B-ho, pronounced bee-hoe.
You know, I should have known that, but a lot of the younger freepers are quite niggardly about sharing info about up-to-date lingo with the seniors.
Can you possibly text that to me? I'll keep the i-Thing on "High."
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