Re: gifts for Japanese
In article <lai8k0drqcn2itr5l2e26uu2a2dpmgpudo@4ax.com>,
Michael Cash <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote:
> This refers to the program 'Information Please', and the date would
> have been sometime between 1945 and 1951.
A few years after that the movie "The Dam Busters" was made in England.
It was the true story of a bombing squadron in WWII that used a newly
invented "bouncing bomb" to destroy dams in Germany.
One of the pilots had a black dog whose name was "Nigger".
IMDB trivia here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046889/trivia
Naturally redubbed in the US release.
As well as this, I remember from my youth a British comedy (made in the
'70s) which was a parody of the famous book about a black stallion
called "Black Beauty".
The comedians are trying to decide on a name for the horse they have
found, and one says:
"Oh he's so black and he's such a beauty, I'll call him... 'Nigger'"
(The line was deliberately meant to shock.)
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