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‘That is awesome': Mel Brooks shares a story about WWII that will make your day
Twitchy ^
| December 21, 2014
| Staff
Posted on 12/22/2014 7:28:19 AM PST by C19fan
Mel Brooks ✔ @MelBrooks My brother Lenny wrote “Happy Hannukah Hitler” on one of the bombs he dropped from his B17 Flying Fortress in WWII #AVeryMelHannukah
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TOPICS: History; Religion
KEYWORDS: brooks; hannukah; war; world
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Good one!
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posted on
12/22/2014 7:28:19 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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posted on
12/22/2014 7:30:03 AM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: C19fan
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posted on
12/22/2014 7:37:26 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: cripplecreek
Yup! Our guys did that all the time.
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posted on
12/22/2014 7:38:48 AM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: gorush
The PanAm girls were from the tv series of two years ago.
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posted on
12/22/2014 7:42:58 AM PST
by
Excellence
(Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
To: C19fan
This custom goes way back. In one of Kipling's WWI stories, there's a debate amongst the officers and NCOs of a unit as to whether noncombatants are authorized to "chalk" messages on the artillery.
Probably the ancient Romans wrote pithy phrases on the rocks they put in the catapults.
"Happy Hanukkah Hitler" gets style points though :-D
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posted on
12/22/2014 7:42:59 AM PST
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AnAmericanMother
(Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
To: C19fan
Today US troops would be arrested for doing such a thing.
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posted on
12/22/2014 7:44:05 AM PST
by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: iowamark
Yeah, imagine a shell with “Allahu Akbar, You Jihadi Mo-Fo’s!” chalked on it.
Hate crime followed by apologies.
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posted on
12/22/2014 7:53:19 AM PST
by
elcid1970
("I am a radicalized infidel.")
To: AnAmericanMother
Ancient Greek peltasts where known to inscribe the lead bullets they used with phrases like ‘dexai’(catch!) and ‘take that!’...
To: C19fan
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posted on
12/22/2014 8:16:19 AM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
See that falling out of the sky, Adolf? That ain’t no dreidel.
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posted on
12/22/2014 8:21:36 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
To: C19fan
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posted on
12/22/2014 8:24:16 AM PST
by
Jonah Hex
(Southern and dang proud of it)
To: C19fan
Mel Brooks fought at the Battle of the Bulge. I believe he worked on land mine removal.
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12/22/2014 8:25:41 AM PST
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crz
To: C19fan
Charles Durning landed and fought D Day and was one of the survivors of the Malmedy murders.
You might remember him as the politician in Oh Brother Where art thou and quite a few others.
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posted on
12/22/2014 8:31:16 AM PST
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crz
To: C19fan
Two of the greatest. Mel Brooks and his late wife Anne Bancroft
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posted on
12/22/2014 8:33:29 AM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: C19fan
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posted on
12/22/2014 8:57:06 AM PST
by
2001convSVT
(Going Galt as fast as I can.)
To: C19fan
Several friends of mine in the Air Force were responsible for SEAL DR&E. They would write propaganda on the Toilet paper and send it out the aircraft window ports
To: C19fan
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posted on
12/22/2014 9:21:46 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(I'm so old, I can remember when most hate crimes were committed by whites - Thomas Sowell, 2014)
To: elcid1970
Yeah, imagine a shell with “Allahu Akbar, You Jihadi Mo-Fo’s!” chalked on it. Hate crime followed by apologies.L
Gads... you're right...
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posted on
12/22/2014 9:23:24 AM PST
by
GOPJ
(I'm so old, I can remember when most hate crimes were committed by whites - Thomas Sowell, 2014)
To: AnAmericanMother
On an archaeological dig outside Istanbul they found a catapult bolt with the Greek inscription “from Phillip”, apparently left over from Phillip of Macedon’s siege of Byzantium (as was) in the 4th century BC.
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