View From The Porch: Today In History: Won't say "Uncle!"

Friday, September 07, 2007

Today In History: Won't say "Uncle!"

The Jerries give London a drubbing. London gives the Jerries the finger.

September 7th 2007 marks the 67th anniversary of the start of the London Blitz.

9 comments:

Unknown said...: In celebration of the anniversary, I think I'll start up European Air War and have my RAF pilot (Wing Commander Nigel DeFault) shoot down a bunch of Jerry He-111s over London.

Pip-pip, cheerio!; 11:13 PM, September 07, 2007
Comrade Misfit said...: You want some history, Tam, come take a ride on a Super Connie in the 1950s with Arthur Godfrey:

http://tinyurl.com/39ljpy

I clipped the two videos there to my blog, but you can find more on YouTube.; 11:14 PM, September 07, 2007
Anonymous said...: One of those moments in history. Never have so few...

I picture a very proper British officer taking a moment for himself and whipping out a very snide " Hallo, Jerry " with mid digit extended now thanks to Tamara.; 11:15 PM, September 07, 2007
Anonymous said...: Make me want to watch "Battle of Britain" again.

I only watched it this past Monday.

Tokarev

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain_(film); 3:00 AM, September 08, 2007
Anonymous said...: Ben, the very proper British officer would know that the mid-digit only is insufficient. Historically we prefer the first two fingers, back of the hand towards the intended recipient of the insult.

This predates Churchill's V-sign or that bloody hippy peace gesture.; 11:41 AM, September 08, 2007
Anonymous said...: JQ,

Granted, giving the forks is certainly the British thing to do. But giving the Germans the finger as described in the original post was what I saw in my mind's eye.; 3:37 PM, September 08, 2007
BobG said...: Actually giving them the "ok" hand signal might have worked also; it is the symbol for arseloch.; 6:10 PM, September 08, 2007
Anonymous said...: The Jerries got worse than fingers: they could get on the Brit frequencies (easier than they could get on their own!) and used to make a little friendly talk ("We don't want war...let's get together...") The English responses were such that even a "Narzi" shouldn't have had to hear it.; 12:19 AM, September 10, 2007
jeff said...: When I lived in Europe, I was chatting with the pilots of some old WW2 airchines that were on hand for an air show. I commented on the Spitfire, and he mentioned that they had intended to bring the Lancaster over as well, but the Germans wouldn't give them clearance to overfly Germany.; 2:53 PM, September 10, 2007