Liese, thanks for the info.
WWII discussion is interesting. As is the family discussion. My own family geneology is so messed up, largely because no one ever mentioned the scandalous things. Like, I didn't find out until I was grown that my aunt had had a whole 'nother family besides the one I knew. She'd married and had a couple kids, and then just left them one day, married another guy and had a couple more kids. No one ever talked about the first family. Just like no one ever talked about my mom's first marriage, even though my sister was RIGHT THERE. Weird.
The current talk about returning to the good old days of marital fidelity, abstinence before marriage, and nuclear families is ridiculous. Those days never existed, and the people pushing the hardest for them are the ones who should know they never existed.
Here's a song US Navy Helldiver pilots sang
My bff's father flew a Curtiss Helldiver. This is a man who was a third-generation banker and was what you'd get if you ordered "uptight banker" from central casting, so it was hard to see him as a dive bomber. When I was helping my friend clear out her parents' house, we not only found his leather jacket and helmet, but also a survival kit he'd been issued. It had fishing hooks, signaling mirrors and the like, plus a many-times-folded onionskin page of survival information. My favorite line: "Do not approach the natives of Papua-New Guinea."
My favorite line: "Do not approach the natives of Papua-New Guinea."
Heh. ex-GF studied anthropology and loved the New Guinea cannibals. Her prof was one of those anthro guys that goes native. I don't know is that really a type? Anyway, he was that type.
My Dad got heavily into geneology after he retired and tracked our family name back to 1400-something. The hardest part was figuring out which ship Johan Schmeh took to the New World (in the 1750s). Once he figured out we were from Rottweill he went there and looked up locals with our name and invited them out to drinks.
Being good, obedient Germans, they showed up.
Why
should
have the United States entered WWII (or WWI for that matter) earlier than they did?
Helldiver is a great name.
IOmeN: (omen? scary) I am telecommuting! Finally, my department has joined the modern world and I can do my job from home! Yay! Now I can work anytime! Nights, weekends, it's great! And, um, wait. I sense danger.
and, there's a weird smell in my living room that wasn't here a few minutes ago. It smells like something rotting. I'm pretty sure I would have noticed that. Hopefully it's drifting down from upstairs through the vents and will be gone soon, and I won't have to do anything about it.
"Do not approach the natives of Papua-New Guinea."
The later edition added "Unless you approach palms up with cold hard cash. Regardless... do not poke, tickle, or zerbert the natives of Papua-New Guinea"
Why should have the United States entered WWII (or WWI for that matter) earlier than they did?
With or without the benefit of hindsight?
P.S. It's like ABC is advertising directly to me. How do they know that I love "Dancing with the Stars" with all my heart? That I love seeing shots of Peter Facinelli in the audience? I mean, he was in "Fastlane!" And they have the Bachelor and Chris Harrison sitting together! OMG! If we still got to work on "The Bachelor," I would totally bet on Chris. And now they are advertising for the movie I most want to see this fall, "Enchanted!"
I am so enjoying my evening right now. None of my previous comments were even a little bit ironic, and I don't even care.
Have you fed her lemons yet, Hec?
