they didn't even kill Glenn Miller

Saw one of those History Channel programs this year that theorized Miller's plane was hit by a bomb from a bomber at a higher altitude - that was ditching the bomb on their way back to base.

No way to know for sure, but if true, freaky.

Yeah, I know it's unresolved, but if it weren't for the Germans, obviously he wouldn't be spending so much time crossing the Atlantic.

As Basil Fawlty would say: don't mention the war!

"You started it!"

"Ve did NOT start it!"

"Yes, you did, you invaded Poland!"

The French are our cowardly-canaries-in-the-German-crazytime-coalmine. We'll know Germany is a threat again the moment the French start kissing our fat American asses again.

That explains a lot about why we've never put France in it's proper place.

"It's official: I am Allah's blog-bitch"

I can just imagine Allah bending Ace over the keyboard and giving him his next entry.

Killed north of 30 million people, a good fraction of that in industrialized state-sanctioned murder-factories, but still whine about the bombing of Dresden, as if they weren't begging for it...

Oops. That Vonnegut one was mine.

You know, I loved that book -- LOVED IT -- as a kid.

Now I just remember the beginning:

In the introduction, he quotes his mother saying there are no villains in the book. Not even the Nazis.

"They taught me that in college," he answers.

I think one should be very suspicious of things one learns in college.

Anyone still play quarters? Didn't think so.

"The Volkswagon Van, the preferred vehicle of psychopathic serial-killers"

Correction: Ted Bundy used a Volkswagon Beetle. Budding SKs take note: removing the back seat gives you much more room to transfer your "packages."

And let me suggest this:

11. Claudia Schiffer

Correction: Ted Bundy used a Volkswagon Beetle

If my memory serves me, I believe John Gacy had a VW van.

Any culture that comes up with the word "ausfarht" can't be all bad.

I believe there ain't an American who--upon really learning about those bastards--would argue against Total War when presnted with Number Ten.

And yes, I am a Ramone.

you gottaproblemwiddat?

You know, it scares me that we know so much about serial killers.

Berkowitz used a VW as well, by the way.

MONSTERFOTZEN.

How can you have a textbook listing all of Germanys great achievements without mentioning monsterfotzen? You cant.

No one who speaks German could be evil.

Sure...that is why pencils have erasers...

[/Simpsons geekery]

Stollen? German beer? Marzipan?

Stollen? German beer? Marzipan?

Stollen = Minus. Weird little candied fruit.

German Beer = Major plus.

Marzipan = Minus. Cool to look at, tastes weird.

Two out of three are negative. Time for war.

Billy Pilgrim walks in time. And so it goes . . .

Beethoven? Arno Schmidt?

Die Prinzen?

"Marzipan?"

Don't make me wheel ot the Cheat.

Gacy drove a sedan.

I think you're right, DaveP. Somehow I thought it was a microbus but I googled it and couldn't find anything.

but if it weren't for the Germans, obviously he wouldn't be spending so much time crossing the Atlantic.

oh yeah, of course.

other German expressions:

die drizzleflippen = windshield wipers

fahrfrompoopen = constipated

der fodderburninklippenklopper = horse

I'm pretty sure all of the 70's era SK's drove one VW product or another. According to my smelly friends, that's all you could get back then.

BrewFAn- try here

Ramstein. The group, not the base.

"10. Kraftwerk"

That just kills me.

The VW vans are driven by hippies.

Pluses are beer and Claudia Schiffer. And beer has been around since ancient Babylonian times.

"The Vokswagon"

On the Road to Auschwitz there are passengers and there are drivers.