The Military Channel is very adept and taking war footage and formatting it into different aspects of the war \u2013 there will be a show on a specific battle, and then a show on a specific piece of equipment, such as different kinds of planes, or the role of tanks, and then a profile of a specific general.\u00a0 So maybe they are using the same footage over and over again, but it does seem that there was a camera man documenting every aspect of the war \u2013 both Axis and Allies.\u00a0 There were many crowd shots, both of the army and desperate refugees, and I wondered if\u00a0 viewers ever spot someone they know in these random shots.\u00a0 But the one show that I would like to see is one devoted to Hitler\u2019s moustache.\u00a0 The \u201ctoothbrush\u201d moustache is now known as the \u201cHitler\u201d moustache and is a universal symbol of evil.\u00a0 All anyone has to do to demonize a poster is to quickly <\/a><\/p>\n However, as I logged my third hour with Adolf and his mates, I wondered why no on else had adopted this same style \u2013 none of his generals had a similar moustache and I never saw another toothbrush moustache in any of the crowd shots.\u00a0 One would think German citizens would be eager to copy the upper lip of their adored leader.\u00a0 While Oliver Hardy and Charlie Chaplin may have had Hitler moustaches, the only German that I could come up with who had such a moustache was the character of Although I was committed to the Military Channel as my main focus,\u00a0 I needed a good alternative channel for the ads.\u00a0 I was delighted to find that America\u2019s Next Top Model was on an different ad schedule and this became my go-to toggler.\u00a0 This reality show featured a gaggle of coltish teenagers who are routinely transformed into alien creatures with layers of make-up, theatrical hair do, unrealistic clothes and then asked to assume weird poses.\u00a0 One photo shoot required them to model jewelry while a tarantula crawled across their face.\u00a0 Between shoots, the girls make catty comments about each other and talk about \u201cstepping up their game,\u201d and \u201cpushing through;\u201d \u00a0many of them did not appear to have a plan B if they got booted off the show. \u00a0Unexpectedly, I find myself seriously rooting for Laura from Kentucky, who had a very charming personality and southern accent and also looks like my cousin Serin. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Okay, back to the Military Channel, but unfortunately there is an ad here also, but this gives me a chance to see who is advertising on this obscure channel, which in turn reflects the presumed demographics of the viewers, and it is clearly not me.\u00a0 There are ads for wheelchairs, catheters and insurance policies that make you feel guilty about burdening your loved ones with your \u201cfinal expenses.\u201d\u00a0 Then there is an add about a coin commemorating the 9\/11 attacks, which includes an image of the twin towers. But wait, there\u2019s more, the towers themselves are made from \u201cpriceless silver recovered in a bank vault in the ashes of ground zero.\u201d\u00a0 The ad then claims that the source of the silver is \u201ctriple authenticated,\u201d by whom and under what authority is left vague, leading me to believe that anything that requires that type of authentication is probably It is now 3 o\u2019clock and thankfully, my afternoon with Adolf has come to an end.\u00a0 I have discovered that I have entered into Law and Order territory, and am looking forward to a respite from war and sociopaths and enjoying some good, basic domestic violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the 1930s the German were frustrated and ——-<\/p>\n Defeated and blamed for the catastrophic world war they had waged,<\/p>\n Hitler stoked the resentments and ——- the crowd,<\/p>\n Restoring national pride was the thing he continually vowed.<\/p>\n Hilter\u2019s rhetoric was like a verbal ——- that created a personality cult<\/p>\n \u00a0And an adoring and willfully oblivious public was the tragic result.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n Answer: enraged, angered, grenade<\/p>\nFollow Liza Blue on: Note this essay is a companion piece to previous essay titled: “Human Pearls,” describing gallbladder surgery. I returned home from the hospital following my gallbladder removal feeling basically fine, but anticipating a few days of serious recuperation on the couch … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.fanagrams.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/rolf-sound-of-music1.bmp\" "\\"rolf")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> add a couple strokes of a pen beneath the lip and the message is instantly clear \u2013 you are looking at a sociopathic despot.\u00a0 According to one anecdote, Hitler apparently started his army career with a handlebar moustache, which was popular among the army elite, but as a minor officer in the trenches, he was ordered to shave it off because it did not fit under a gas mask.\u00a0 Hilter then apparently adopted his trademark\u00a0moustache full time as a rejection of the army elite and a celebration of the common soldier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a> the bumbling buffoonish Sergeant Schultz in the 1960\u2019s TV show Hogan\u2019s Heroes, a sitcom that inexplicably found great success in making a German prison camp into a comedy.\u00a0 Many found the show in reprehensible taste.\u00a0 In response the networks pointed out that the Germans in the show, Sergeant Schultz and Colonol Klink were, in fact, Jews who had fled Germany, with the bizarre implication that this casting made the premise acceptable.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a> fake in the first place.\u00a0 But wait there\u2019s even more \u2013 the towers themselves are on a hinge.\u00a0 You can insert your fingernail under one of the towers just as if you were starting to pick a scab, and voila, you raise the towers from the ashes so that they are vertical.\u00a0 Hogan\u2019s Heroes is in bad taste, but so is this.<\/p>\nThe missing words in the following poem are anagrams (i.e. share the same letters like post, spot, stop).\u00a0 The number of dashes indicates the number of letters.\u00a0 One of the anagrams will be at the end of the line and will rhyme with preceding or following line, giving you a big hint.\u00a0 Your job is to solve the missing words based on the above rules and the context of the poem.\u00a0 Scroll down for the answers.<\/h6>\n
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