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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Japan ...
« on: March 16, 2011, 08:38:36 AM »
Those are some very sobering sights. 
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Gibson Basses / Re: Uwe's Shortie T-Bird
« on: March 16, 2011, 08:30:25 AM »So which is the short one?
The right one sans chrome is the Unter-Bird.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Birds in formation
« on: March 16, 2011, 08:28:40 AM »Doc - you're a bad influenceMy last trip to Autozone produced this:
Darth Vader Bird!
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Gibson Basses / Re: New Schaller bridge option for shortscales
« on: March 16, 2011, 08:27:17 AM »Is that a naturally grown swastika pattern on its head?!!!
So much imagery here. I almost expect Himmler to dispatch assassination squads to round us all up.
It actually is. Probably got offered honorary NSDAP party membership too. Sieg moooh!
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Gibson Basses / Re: New Schaller bridge option for shortscales
« on: March 15, 2011, 11:16:27 AM »
We need to somehow introduce animals into this thread too:
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Gibson Basses / Re: New Schaller bridge option for shortscales
« on: March 15, 2011, 09:39:26 AM »
Let me repeat this then: Thin cyanide mint cookies packaged in miniature bunkers with deathshead skulls on them fed to obliging male nubiles hand-picked by Ernst Röhm? 
You guys should be writing comics, there is a market for smut out there:
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Gibson Basses / Re: Uwe's Shortie T-Bird
« on: March 15, 2011, 09:24:21 AM »
It doesn't look exactly tiny in comparison to a real Bird, I'm a bit surprised. Body and headstock size give the illusion of a bass larger than it is.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Epi JC?
« on: March 15, 2011, 09:12:34 AM »
Nice rendition of that Dylan song.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Michael Wittmann: WAFFEN SS "Tanks" 5/5
« on: March 14, 2011, 02:13:29 AM »This man has the highest score of tanks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Knispel
Interesting, this guy never got any farther than NCO rank and is relatively undecorated for his feats. Makes you wonder whether he was seen as either racially (ancestors?) or politically unreliable, no propaganda fodder obviously. Allegedly, he threatened to shoot an officer who was repeatedly mishandling POWs which makes him great in my book, but probably did his Wehrmacht career no favors. He was also notorious for disobeying orders and general "unmilitary behavior" - certainly, the pictures of him in the later phases of the war seem to show a man who no longer gave a damn about whether he looked like a potential propaganda idol:
Only U-Boat guys were allowed to look like this, on land you were expected to get a haircut and shave.
Michael Wittmann covered that angle better:
The skull on the lapel of Knispel's black uniform identifies him as German army, not Waffen-SS. A Waffen-SS tank commander would have had the SS-runes on the lapel and the skull on his cap as Wittmann has in his picture.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Michael Wittmann: WAFFEN SS "Tanks" 5/5
« on: March 14, 2011, 02:05:22 AM »
I'm wary of those tank kill numbers not just for the propaganda influence, but also because Germans were horrible at telling Allied equipment apart so quite a few armoured vehicles might have turned into tanks. And in any case, against the brilliantly planned and executed Normandy Invasion, an unprecedented logistical feat, this was less than a bee sting.
Though being a member of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler doesn't exactly qualify him as a resistance member (that said, the leader of the Leibstandarte, Sepp Dietrich, knew about the plot against Hitler and was willing to change sides had it worked) he seems to have been a decent enough guy. There is lore about him that after a spectacular success at the Russian front, his superior awarded him a medal and asked if he could do anything else for him to which Wittmann is to have replied: "Yes, evacuate those three wounded Russian soldiers our medics had to leave behind under fire on that hill". Which was then supposedly done. I sincerely hope that really happened, it impresses me more than the umpteenth Allied tank destroyed.
Though being a member of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler doesn't exactly qualify him as a resistance member (that said, the leader of the Leibstandarte, Sepp Dietrich, knew about the plot against Hitler and was willing to change sides had it worked) he seems to have been a decent enough guy. There is lore about him that after a spectacular success at the Russian front, his superior awarded him a medal and asked if he could do anything else for him to which Wittmann is to have replied: "Yes, evacuate those three wounded Russian soldiers our medics had to leave behind under fire on that hill". Which was then supposedly done. I sincerely hope that really happened, it impresses me more than the umpteenth Allied tank destroyed.
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Gibson Basses / Re: New Schaller bridge option for shortscales
« on: March 14, 2011, 01:40:58 AM »
Not true, at one point almost 80 years ago, almost all the girl populace was in an girl scout outfit of sorts.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Birds in formation
« on: March 14, 2011, 01:37:04 AM »
It's nice to see that German is being advanced as ze längwich of zis förüm. Schöne Bässe übrigens!
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Japan ...
« on: March 13, 2011, 09:36:00 AM »
Third reactor threatening to go into meltdown mode and a volcano erupts. If this was one of those doomsday films, you'd now leave the theater muttering to yourself what an unrealistic buch of crap you just saw.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Japan ...
« on: March 12, 2011, 05:47:03 PM »
Happy to hear everyone is safe, Harry.