Serious question for Sebigboss

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

He takes so many he rattles.......

IanS

[fsn]

Thank the Drak Lord for that! I thought the voices had changed to Morse code.

[Zippee]

Yay FSN
the pharmacological piñata

£5 for a bag of 10mm centurions to chuck at him 

[Techno]

As long he doesn't swallow them all in one go !
Cheers - Phil

[Ace of Spades]

I know my grandma was one of the lucky ones, having some land in her back yard to grow anything including potatoes.
With withdrawing Germans plundered half the potatoes, the "victorious French" threw everything including jam glasses around and what was left unspoiled helped her through the rationing.

When my hometown was invaed in 1940 (the breakthrough through the Peel-Raamstelling at Mill with an armoured train) my grandmothers sister was jus about to get wed that same day. They had filled the cellar with cakes, food, beer and liquor for the guests but when they got back after a week they found the cellar pretty well emptied by the passing troops Ah well; all except for the drink would have been spoilt anyway by that time... All other encounters with the Germans throughout the rest of the war were quite pleasant overall. Most German soldiers posted in these little towns on the countryside loved nothing more than visiting the locals in the evening and have coffeee and some social time with them as long as the progress of the war wasn't the subject . My grandfather had fought them in 1940 and lost a lot of comrades in the fighting around the airfields in the vicinity of The Hague, but still he saw no harm in socializing with the regular German soldier afterward as did most. That doesn't mean they weren't happy to see 'm leave in '44 but at least it wasn't personal.

Cheers,
Rob