Quick hot takes on weird and wonderful news of the week — Stephen Green brings you Right Angle Lightning Round XXI, with Scott Ott and Bill Whittle.
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Lightning Round XXI: Weird and Wonderful News of the Week
Quick hot takes on weird and wonderful news of the week — Stephen Green brings you Right Angle Lightning Round XXI, with Scott Ott and Bill Whittle.
22 replies on “Lightning Round XXI: Weird and Wonderful News of the Week”
Yes! Hair of the Dog + The Week in Blogs = LIGHTNING ROUND! Steve’s best one yet! Thanks guys.
“A 97 year old veteran just skydived into Normandy again…”
“Yeah, but how many Germans did he get this time!?”
(reminds me of one of Grandpa Simpson’s best lines)
Scott,
Your story about your Grandfather really struck a chord with me. I felt really sad about the weight he carried for the remainder of his life but realize that his reunion has now been complete. Now I just have to deal with the ocular leakage this story created.
When Pop returned from the war he devoted much of the rest of his life to mentoring boys and men through starting community athletic programs and teams, as well as coaching football and baseball…not to mention bringing up four grandsons. All the while, he worked shaping cold steel into railcars. A remarkable life.
A life well-lived. I’d say he did a good job with the raising part.
Indeed why should members suffer the indignity of Lightning Rounds alone?
Democrats are still good at fighting the enemy. The problem is, they now consider America & American’s the enemy.
Because we won’t sit down and shut up or take of our magahats.
Angela Merkel’s regime wants to suppress anything to do with the NAZIs because they are afraid people will notice how authoritarian their government has become.
I think the ban on Nazi symbols and such goes way back, if not to the end of the war. It was part of the “give them no recognition or memory” kind of thing, but as Bill said, you have to know better, so you don’t do it again.
You are most probably correct. I was just taking the opportunity to express my disdain for Merkel and what the German Government has become. On another note, I believe in free speech and while I think anyone that thinks like a NAZI is nuts, banning their freedom to speak is worse in the end for all of us.
Ugg, Grey Goose? Really? If I must drink Vodka, it will be Stoli.
But I still like you, Steve. You’re ok for a rich woman. . . 😉
I miss Vicious Vodka. Caffeinated vodka FTW.
Worm piss?
Didn’t he say, warm piss? I thought that was the saying.
That sounds more like it. My ear filters sometimes don’t work 😛
Scott, the way I heard your story…
Early 70s. Senior TWA captain is reassigned to the N. European routes and is flying into Frankfurt. Doesn’t speak a word of German and is unfamiliar w/ specific procedures of German ATC. And ATC is quickly getting frustrated w/ the guy. Moving too slow, asking to repeat orders and clarification.
Finally the exasperated ground controller blurts out “Dumkoff! Have you never flown to Frankfurt before?!”
W/O missing a beat the captain responded “Yes sir. Flew here several times. About 30yrs ago. Never landed though.”
Bobby O’Roark is a witwood.
Way I heard it, the red part of the NAZI flag was specifically added to attract wayward communists and middle of the roaders to National Socialism.
Speaking of the strategic implications of D-Day, I still say one of the most impressive things about it is that the US conducted another invasion of equal size (Brits and Canadians didn’t come to play) out in the middle of the Pacific at Saipan ONE WEEK later.
That always gets lost in the WWII conversations. The war in the Pacific gets overlooked. As if there were only ships and not people involved.
Yoda’s selling mattresses now?