Monty Python got some good alliterative mileage out of that term in their movie “And Now For Something Completely Different.” One sequence in the movie is a fake WWII British newsreel, in black and white, with suitably bombastic narration that includes the opening line “Yes, the war against the Hun continues – and as Britian’s brave boys battle against the Boche…” By the standards of genuine WWII newsreels, that’s actually not as over-the-top as it sounds to modern ears. And during a real WWII deception operation, the fake letter from General Nye to General Alexander which was the centrepiece of the “Mincemeat” disinformation scheme used such phrases as “We have had recent information that the Boche have been reinforcing and strengthening their defences in Greece and Crete…”
What does your name mean?
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what does your name mean? for some its more obvious than others, like everyone knows rommel and alamein, but what about those other ones?
personally i got mine from www.homestarrunner.com which is like the funniest site ever! if you ever go there, click on toons, and click on features and check out the “strongbad’s emails” they’re so funny! the funniest ones are “japanese cartoon” and “dragon”, along with "credit card, “the bird” “office dullard” and like so many other hilarious ones
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Got the same thread already. Locking this one.
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