Straff

If Chamberlain had come from the Gorbals, Hitler might have thought twice

EDIT: WHO PUT THAT RUDDY ADVERT IN MY POST??

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Moor Larkin

I always remember when England won the World Cup in 1966 we all waved Union Jacks, even though the Scots, Welsh and the protestants from Ireland had made no contribution to the least bloody of our many victories over the Hun!!

cooleyn

Ouch . . .

I say - bit below the belt, old chap, what . . ?

(but true, I suppose)

cooleyn

SCOOP (no, I said scoop, not poop) !!



This just in (found on a blog somewhere):

Last weekend’s Sunday Telegraph had a bit of a scoop which probably confirmed the worst suspicions of some Dam Buster film enthusiasts. Sir David Frost, who is producing the new film with Peter Jackson, told the newspaper’s diary writer, Mandrake, that they had reached a compromise on the name of Guy Gibson’s dog. Its real name was Nigger, but in the remake, which is unlikely to appear before 2011, it will be called Nidge.


NIDGE ??????



Your comments on an A4 piece of paper, please.

Steve Crook

The Telegraph article says "I think we have reached a compromise in which we'll call him Nidge. Gibson did sometimes call his dog this, so there would be a historical precedent."

Steve

Bernardo

1. Since when has history bothered anyone doing remakes of classic Brit films?

2. The plane will be a B17 with Memphis Belle on it.

3. Aircrew will include at least one ethnic minority and someone one the airfield will be disabled and where are they going to have the sex scene?.

4. Nidge (it talks) toy dog will be available by next Christmas along with the model planes, video game, and CD. Pirate DVDs only that Christmas.

I could go on but I am too upset.

716Jones

Wonder if they'll change the code word for breaching the dam to Nidge then?

rbrooks2008

Well, in most of the models I've seen of Gibson's Lanc, over the years, the frame number has seem to have lost the required /G from ED932/G which denotes needing a guard put on it due to security reasons and that's upset not many people - EXCEPT ME! I'd spent ages on those designs!

Has anyone ever backed up the claim that I'd read in one of the film 'bloopers' sites that in the closing scene, N*gger is still seen very much alive and running around in the woods in the background?

Well, if you told them I designed it, d'you think that might help?

cooleyn

Didn't see that, but in the airfield scene where Barnes Wallis is talking to Mutt Summers by a mosquito before making the last test drop of the half-sized bombs, when Wallis gets into the car, you can see a gleaming silver Canberra jet bomber in the rear window behind him.

Might have come in handy on the real raid.

I'm Brian, and so's my wife!

rbrooks2008

I love the use of Shackletons in The Silent Enemy and the fact that Crabb thought it safe to diffuse a mine close to one. Why oh! why didn't we use them against the U-Boat threat?

Well, if you told them I designed it, d'you think that might help?

cooleyn

Found these amusing "potential" posters for the forthcoming dambusters remake.



And this one - check out the cast list!!

trelawnee

To be fair, in real life Gibson's dog was heartily loathed by the ground crews for his habit of piddling everywhere.

And the rather cocky Guy Gibson was reinvented by Richard Todd, who turned him into a modest English gentleman.

What really sickens me is the way they have airbrushed my uncle Ted out of the history books. He was with the 8th Army during WWII and often put Montgomery straight on matters of tactics and supply. I know this to be so because my uncle told me, but there is no mention of Ted of Alemein in any military histories.

Wicked Lady

Worst case senario for casting: Jude Law and Colin Farrell.

cooleyn

Or to right off the scale - Boris Johnson as Barnes Wallis . . .

Straff

Quite. I have just read Richard Morris' biography of GG. Sychophantic it is not.

My father (RN) was the same. He KNEW where all those ruddy U-boats were. That ASDIC was ok, but he had 'a feeling' for it. Would 'Johnny' Walker listen? Served him right they only got 15.

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