I hope the inventor of the V2 doesn't visit DU.

da_chimperor

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Thu Jan-27-05 04:15 PM
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I hope the inventor of the V2 doesn't visit DU.

We don't need no zombie rocket-scientists!

Dr. Wernher Von Braun

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Zuni

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Thu Jan-27-05 04:16 PM
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1. No, I hope he doesn't return from the grave to haunt us either

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da_chimperor

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Thu Jan-27-05 04:55 PM
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4. A zombie growling with a german accent . . .

:scared:

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jeff30997

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Thu Jan-27-05 04:17 PM
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2. Without him the soviets would have landed on the moon first.

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underpants

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Thu Jan-27-05 04:56 PM
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5. "Our Germans are better than their Germans"

-The Right Stuff

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Zuni

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Thu Jan-27-05 07:31 PM
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8. or our captured evil Nazi scientists were better than theirs....

Edited on Thu Jan-27-05 07:34 PM by Zuni

that would be a more accurate discription.

Werner Von Braun was THE most important catch in Project Paperclip. The USSR got the nuclear project in Berlin (Antony Beevor thinks one of Stalin's aims in pushing his armies to the limit for Berlin was to capture as much of the Nazi bomb project as possible)

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Ekirh

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Thu Jan-27-05 04:22 PM
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3. In the words of Tom Lehrer...

And I know I'm probably going to misquote him..

I don't care where the missles go down..
That's not my department... says Wernher Von Braun

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Buns_of_Fire

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Thu Jan-27-05 05:47 PM
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7. In German, and English, I know how to count dowwwwwwwn.......

And I'm learning Chinese -- says Wernher von Braun

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Zuni

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Thu Jan-27-05 07:32 PM
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9. many of them came down on innocents

during terror raids on London in '44 and '45

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Tyrone Slothrop

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Thu Jan-27-05 05:14 PM
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6. A screaming comes across the sky. n/t

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deutsey

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Thu Jan-27-05 07:34 PM
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10. Ha!

That's what I was thinking.

Do you think Pointsman found a job in the Bush White House?

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