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[englishangel]

Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938

I bet the Times are keeping that secret now.

Time the magazine, not the Thunderer, (well the Squeaker now I suppose)

[DavebytheSea]

One of Adolf Hitler's school reports from his teacher remarked that Hitler was...'bad tempered and fancied himself as a leader.'

Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938

Time is an American magazine and the Americans have lauded Saddam, Milosevic and Ceaucescu each in their turn. To give them their due though, they do help them to rearm before dropping bombs on them - fair's fair after all.

[sejintenej]

A simple solution, surely, would be to raise one's naughty bits above the surface of the river before passing water.

French letters one side, corks the other should do the trick.

[sejintenej]

I swam in the Rio Negro nearly every day when I was there,

and you didn't see a single mosquito breeding in it; they cannot because it has too much peat. For those who haven't been, Manaus is not on the Amazon river but on it's subsidiary Rio Negro which is big enough for ocean going vessels.

In years past, gentlemen in Manaus used to send their shirts to Paris to be laundered; they didn't have anything also to spend their money on.

[DavebytheSea]

A simple solution, surely, would be to raise one's naughty bits above the surface of the river before passing water.

French letters one side, corks the other should do the trick.

Corks was an excellent swimmer as well as being a good choirmaster. We used to bathe in the river Arun at Madrigal Camp. However, I am not sure that he ever wrote any French letters. Noel "Sam" Sargent probably did - but then he was French anyway.

[sejintenej]

Corks was an excellent swimmer as well as being a good choirmaster. We used to bathe in the river Arun at Madrigal Camp. However, I am not sure that he ever wrote any French letters. Noel "Sam" Sargent probably did - but then he was French anyway.

He had an excellent memory for which bars were open at what time and ably demonstrated how he could legally drink 24 hours a day in London whilst being deacon or similr in St Paul's Cathedral; my kidneys were not to happy.

(Corks was my housemaster in Col A before he left)

[Tim_MaA_MidB]

and you didn't see a single mosquito breeding in it; they cannot because it has too much peat.

well, not peat exactly, but it is very acidic and there are very few mossies (hardly any malaria as a consequence). Only a few miles away there is the Solimoes river ... around there you will be swarmed by mossies.

Check out "The Meeting of the Waters", where the milky coffee coloured Solimoes meets the black tea coloured Negro... amazing sight.

[Laura M]

Adolt Hitler was in fact a fantastic boss, vegetarian teetotaler, compare that to an alcoholic womaniser (Churchill).
Adolf Hitler also survived six months as a runner during WW1 when the average life expectancy of such a person was 2 days

[J.R.]

Why can't schizophrenics claim Double Disability Living Allowance ?

[jtaylor]

Adolt Hitler was in fact a fantastic boss, vegetarian teetotaler, compare that to an alcoholic womaniser (Churchill).
Adolf Hitler also survived six months as a runner during WW1 when the average life expectancy of such a person was 2 days

Vegetarian teetotaler?? A good thing?? - we evolved to eat meat, and hence should eat meat.
(anyone noticed I'm in a controversial and argumentative mood!?!)

[jtaylor]

The estimated average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour

South African Swallow:-

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[marty]

The estimated average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour

South African Swallow:-

European Swallow:-

More details:- CLICK HERE

What about one carrying the hollowed husk of a coconut? Or would the weight ratio be too high for it to maintain sufficient air speed velocity?

[loringa]

Adolt Hitler was in fact a fantastic boss, vegetarian teetotaler, compare that to an alcoholic womaniser (Churchill).
Adolf Hitler also survived six months as a runner during WW1 when the average life expectancy of such a person was 2 days

A fantastic boss to whom precisely? The fact that he was nice to his secretaries may not entirely militate his actions as leader towards his own (non-Jewish) countryman which resulted in vast numbers of them dying, whether on the Eastern Front, in attempting to hold on to Northern France or as the Allies advanced through Germany when he refused to surrender and so many of his population died unnecessarily. Or perhaps you are referring to the slave labourers who he also forced to work for him? Or maybe you are referring to the direct control he took of the German Armed Forces, overriding his Generals, and again wasting hundreds of thousands of lives? I'd rather have worked for Churchill any day!

Incidentally, where does the idea that Churchill was a womaniser come from; I really don't believe he was?

Overall, Churchill was a great man with some human frailties whereas Hitler was an evil monster - no comparison really.

[Euterpe13]

For all the beer & footie fans out there :

Beer, as all alcoholic drinks, is made by fermentation caused by bacteria feeding on the yeast cells, then defecating. This bacterial excrement is called alcohol.

So you are effectively swilling baterial poo....

[Euterpe13]

and as a coda :

It is always helpful to have a law that clearly defines when a person is legally intoxicated.
In Kentucky, anyone who has been drinking is considered sober until he or she cannot hold onto the ground