Please help me solve this riddle...

[alan white]

Originally Posted by Bergalia

Well talking of language and euphemisms - apparently there is a 're-make' of the 'Dam Busters' being made for the US market. Now here's the 'riddle': How do they get around the name of Guy Gibson's dog ? (For the uninformed, the dog was called that 'N' word). The dog, you may recall played a major part in the closing scenes of the original film even giving his name to the 'successful mission' call-sign.
As this epic is based on fact - will the script-writers be allowed to alter history ?

Boy, Max. You are playing fast and loose with some pretty politically incorrect terms. You can't any longer say the (you know what letter) word.
It is now the "14th letter word". Get with it.
My guess is they changed the dog's name to something acceptable like "Negrito" or "Schwarzenegger" after one of our distinguished gubernatorial movie stars.

[Frosty]

Oh Oh _-Oh Oh I get it now. A cloured gentleman. You know ive never understood this. They call themselves nigger and dog and all sorts of stuff they call us whitey and honkies, so whats the problem.

Am I a gullable Englishman?

In England we call them wogs, blacks, rag heads. I cant imagine what they would call me,--- All jolly good fun.

The Thai girls call them "choc-o-lat man" Ive never seen any one get angry about it.

[SamSam]

Originally Posted by Bergalia

Good question Wynand. (Hi again, you seem to have been rather silent lately. Learning your 'new' language I suppose.... )

I get the impression that 'Africarn' is another of those 'nice polite' phrases to cover a 'pidjin' language.

He might be trying to spell an accent. Some here say winders for windows, Canadiens say aboot for about. Blacks say nigga. You say tomatoe, I say Bloody Mary.

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by Frosty

....Am I a gullable Englishman?

Rhetoric I assume Frosty, after all it's a well-known scientifically proven fact that ALL Englishmen are gullible...why else would they drink blended whisky

[Bergalia]

OK - now for all you 'Good Ole Boys' Stateside: Harry S.Truman.

No googling - on your honour. What did the 'S' stand for?

[timgoz]

Stood for "S" so as not to offend either Granfather. That the best you got Berg?

[timgoz]

You did say Google, right? Actually knew that one.

[charmc]

Way to go Tim, holding up that Yank honor. Bergalia throws a lot of softballs, but we have to understand and humor him. Hey, aside from the new British PM, Max is the only Scotsman who ever learned to read.

[charmc]

Originally Posted by Bergalia

Well talking of language and euphemisms - apparently there is a 're-make' of the 'Dam Busters' being made for the US market. Now here's the 'riddle': How do they get around the name of Guy Gibson's dog ? (For the uninformed, the dog was called that 'N' word). The dog, you may recall played a major part in the closing scenes of the original film even giving his name to the 'successful mission' call-sign.
As this epic is based on fact - will the script-writers be allowed to alter history ?

Alter history to placate self-appointed "spokesmen" for minorities? In the US or Great Britain today? Naaah. Never happen. Historical accuracy is the most important element in any movie based on real events.

(Note: to anyone who believed the paragraph above, please PM me to discuss investments in Florida land between Naples and Miami. Mosquitoes, alligators, and other strange critters, but it's real cheap, and I'll give you a personally signed deed. )

[timgoz]

Max read Charlie? No way!

The female members of Max's family take turns reading the forum to him. They then translate his barely understandable Scottish (& Scotch) tainted jibberish into something we can read. Thier mum supplied all genetic material related to intelligence & general brain function. She is the real genius behind the witty & intelligent ramblings of the one we call Bergalia.

Tim

[Bergalia]

Originally Posted by timgoz

Max read Charlie? No way!.. She (his wife) is the real genius behind the witty & intelligent ramblings of the one we call Bergalia. Tim

No comment. However I did manage to tie the lace of my left shoe the other day without any help...even though the shoe was on the wrong foot. (Which is why I wear Wellies...Marked 'L' and 'R'.....)

[harlemriverman]

Originally Posted by Wynand N

I am busy with some course and was presented with this riddle and needs to have an answer by Friday.

...fork leads to a settlement of good people on the one side and to cannibals on the other...cannibals are big liars and deceivers...you stepped out of the plane there was a person standing at the fork junction...you can ask this unknown person only ONE question....

Which way to the canibals so that I will be eaten right away?

Canibal or good person, both will point the way. Go the opposite direction.

[Verytricky]

Originally Posted by Wynand N

that statement of verytricky defies all logic. Then again the best players are the spectators in the pavilion....
I wonder if he had ever been to South Africa or Zimbabwe As I stay in SA and visits old Bob's ruins for our annual fishing trip to the spectacular Zambezi river (whats left of it) since the early 70's, I had seen this once prosperous country reduced to ashes. One has to experience it to believe it.

Sigh.

Only spent 20 years there, so I dont really know much about it at all.

P.S. I thought it was only the americans that did not get ironic commentary? Aparently not?