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horrorhunter · October 16, 2015, 04:22:33 PM

Quote from: Hepcat on October 16, 2015, 09:41:01 AM
Oh wow! From what movie is that picture?

It isn't real, but it would be way cool if it were.

Hepcat · October 16, 2015, 11:18:04 PM

Quote from: ChristineBCW on October 15, 2015, 08:11:44 AMAlso, there were Iron Crosses on display occasionally, which surprises me since that was a strong German Army sign and they seem to appear within 2 decades of the war's end in Europe. Do you know of explanations for that popularity? Was that a sign of the growing distrust for The Older Generation? Some 'stick in yer eye' lambast?

Quote from: ChristineBCW on October 15, 2015, 06:00:28 PMThanks for that write-up on the Iron Crosses and Rat Fink notions. It's interesting how the "rebel side" of people manifest their behaviors and decorate them with insignias, logos, etc.

For the iron crosses, I keep giggling over the idea that, somewhere in the 'burbs of Buenos Aires, there were a bunch thick-speaking immigrants with a funny mustache or two, who saw those and wondered, "Maybe we should move to LA and open a surfboard shop."

I still remember reading an article in Life(?) magazine in 1964 or 1965 about how already strained relations between the French government of Charles De Gaulle and the U.S. government were being further exacerbated by the burgeoning popularity of the Iron Cross with French youngsters. The French government saw this as yet another but particularly maddening instance of gutter American mass market culture crossing the Atlantic to subvert domestic French mores and traditions.

ChristineBCW · October 17, 2015, 06:20:32 AM

Hep, spending more than a decade in Paris, you made me laugh out-loud by thinking DeGaulle would blame American influences. DeGaulle, the king of gutter tactics, blaming anyone else for righteous and long-overdue payback. Of course, my claiming to know Parisian social 'skills' should be tempered against claiming to know 'France' similiar to someone from Tulsa or Pullman claiming to know all of America.

But the idea of his baby-boomers taking lessons from the Americans - especially in those early-mid '60s - shows DeG's desperate graspings onto any lifeline of the day as if blaming others could save him from his own behavior's up-close and personal observations by a press corps infamous for sharpening guillotine blades.

I love it. Thanks for that note. I have little stomach for reading more about DeG's so-called life, and that too is a symptom of "knowing Paris". ha ha... (I need to find the caricatures of DeG in Frankenstein make-up... those were fairly constant... arms outstretched, shakily stomping thru the Paris streets... and that was his NORMAL walk, too-!)

Hepcat · October 17, 2015, 10:39:34 AM

Quote from: ChristineBCW on October 17, 2015, 06:20:32 AM...you made me laugh out-loud by thinking DeGaulle would blame American influences. DeGaulle, the king of gutter tactics, blaming anyone else for righteous and long-overdue payback.

It's the tried and true technique of blaming anyone but yourself, particularly if you can find a nasty foreigner to blame.