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Post by Wing on Jun 7, 2007 5:27:27 GMT -5
Yesterday was the anniversary of D-Day, as well as Lucie's birthday!  *throws small party* |
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Post by Qualerei on Jun 16, 2007 12:49:50 GMT -5
Hehe... perhaps they chose the day as a token of their admiration for Rommel ? ... What do you mean, it's unlikely ?  |
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ErwiiRommie
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Post by ErwiiRommie on Jun 19, 2007 9:37:46 GMT -5
More likely they chose it to annoy his wife and therefore put Rommel between a perverbial rock and a hard place. To go to war or not to go to war! Oh the woes of having a wife's birthday on the day of the invasion!
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Post by Qualerei on Jun 20, 2007 17:59:48 GMT -5
*chokes laughing*
You're evil. Do you know just how many fanfics/novels I'm currently working on ? I really don't need one more, you fiend !
And still... I can just see the hilarious story behind this innocent little line...
Especially since Rommel is rumoured to have been henpecked...
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Post by ErwiiRommie on Jun 20, 2007 21:25:25 GMT -5
"But I must go, dear! For the sake of the Fatherland!"
"Oh don't give me the 'For the sake of the Fatherland' dribble again, Erwin. It's my birthday for crying out loud! I haven't had you hear for the last two years and when you can finally be here you start to run off to play war again!"
"But..."
"No, buts! It's my birthday and I want you here!"
The great Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the famed Desert Fox for once in his life does not know how to win this particular battle...
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Post by Qualerei on Jun 21, 2007 6:52:39 GMT -5
*sniggers*
Yeah, seems like he'll have to surrender this time...
And meanwhile, in London...
"But why on the sixth of June ?"
"Because that way we'll have a diversion that will keep away our most dangerous enemy !"
"A diversion ? The Resistance ?"
"More dangerous. His wife."
Actually, that reminds me a Hogan's Heroes episode... general Burkhalter explains to colonel Klink why he assigned captain Kurtz, his brother-in-law, to stalag 13.
Burkhalter : "That order came from the highest authority in the Third Reich !"
Klink *shuddering* : "The Fuhrer ?!"
Burkhalter : "Higher than that. My wife."
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Post by Desert Stallion on Jun 22, 2007 17:56:37 GMT -5
You people are cracking me up. ;D I saw that episode not too long ago, while rerunning through the seasons, and I loved that moment. And I always did wonder about the coincidence of those two events...Now I know why, lol. Can't you imagine Eisenhower and his generals standing around wondering how the fearless, masterful Desert Fox manages to be so henpecked?
Speaking of HH, the last season, number 6 is out. I've not gotten a chance to pick it up yet. Sorry for going off topic.
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Post by Wing on Jun 23, 2007 10:50:52 GMT -5
Gah, I have yet to see HH! Now I really want to...
*snickers* I may have to steal that idea from you, Qual. You hurry back to your fanfics, dearie.
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Post by Qualerei on Jun 23, 2007 16:31:08 GMT -5
Well - do you know just how much stuff I have to write ? If I wrote anything about this idea, that would be so short that it would be hardly worth writing it at all. Besides, I know myself too well. If I begin on this thing, it will get out of hand again... But please do steal the idea. If anyone writes it, I wanna read it !
Oh, and Wing, if you wanna watch the HH stuff, I can lend it to you. I have the first five seasons... *mutters* and I'll have to order the sixth too, since they won't have it in France... blah !
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Post by machiavelli-imp on Apr 2, 2009 1:20:39 GMT -5
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Post by machiavelli-imp on Jun 6, 2009 6:48:10 GMT -5
Sorry - that link is now dead. Stupid google. There were a few interviews on the radio with various boffins about D-day - or rather, how good the Allied tactics were and how stupid the Germans were and isn't it wonderful that we killed so many French civilians when we bombed the Germans and missed (honest!) - yet not one of them mentioned that the commanding officer for the German forces at the beaches wasn't actually there when the fighting started! You have to wonder what things would have been like if the invasion had been on the fifth (as it was supposed to be).
As it is...wow...three years since we last noticed Lucie's birthday, perhaps some fic is in order? Rommel didn't have much luck with birthdays, did he? On his wife's fiftieth there's D-day and on his own fiftieth Crusader starts. Maybe the Allied command wanted to give Rommel and his wife a "present" both times. Nah...Montgomery didn't have enough of a sense of humour for that. I wonder what happened on Manfred's birthday? Or their wedding anniversary? The poor man!
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