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Harry says sorry for Nazi costume
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Posted on 01/12/2005 3:50:37 PM PST by Gomez

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To: Gomez
A collateral ancestor, Lord Mountbatten, changed his name from Battenberg because of anti-German feeling during the First World War.

The British kicked out the Stuarts and brought in a Dutchman, William III, in 1688. Then when that line died out they brought in George I, a German prince of the House of Hannover.

I don't know how much all these ancestral connections influenced the prince's behavior. But all this reminds me of the great book and even greater movie, "The Remains of the Day."


81 posted on 01/12/2005 5:34:04 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: TomGuy

Are you suggesting the swastika is NOT an symbol of evil?


82 posted on 01/12/2005 5:34:20 PM PST by OldFriend (PRAY FOR MAJ. TAMMY DUCKWORTH)
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To: Gomez

Where does he think he is? On Broadway in a Mel Brooks musical?


83 posted on 01/12/2005 5:36:28 PM PST by BikerNYC
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To: CSSFlorida
That's just flat out insulting....not to mention idiotic. Aside from that it was a striking comment....especially the anti-Semitic parts.

All in all, one of the more disgusting comments seen on FR that reflects rather badly on you.

84 posted on 01/12/2005 5:38:32 PM PST by sofaman
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To: Gomez

He could have masqueraded as his father and dressed as a tampon.


85 posted on 01/12/2005 5:39:14 PM PST by maggief
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To: Gomez

Back when I was in college, a Jewish friend of mine and I made up some politically incorrect costumes for Halloween. I dressed up as a Nazi with full length leather trench, combat boots, and brown shirt, and red armband. He dressed up as a poor ghetto Jew with some shabby clothing, yellow star, little fisherman's cap and battered suitcase. We had a grand old time chasing each other around the dormatory.

There'd be no point to this anecdote except that the next day in the cafeteria, I received a standing ovation from the table where all the middle-eastern students sat. Somehow I think they missed the point.


86 posted on 01/12/2005 5:45:46 PM PST by Liberal Classic (No better friend, no worse enemy. Semper Fi.)
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To: CSSFlorida

Are you saying that the 6 million Jews that Hitler murdered were a "protected species"? That is sick. It takes a poisoned soul to say something like that.


87 posted on 01/12/2005 5:59:53 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (Lurking since 1997!)
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To: Gomez

One of the few qualifications for royalty is you have a sense of good taste...


88 posted on 01/12/2005 6:05:39 PM PST by Odyssey-x
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To: fish hawk

He is third in line to the crown. He should know better. And the Holocaust isn't that far removed from us, unlike Nero and Ghengis Khan. Can't you see the difference?


89 posted on 01/12/2005 6:06:39 PM PST by gingerky
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To: Gomez

Makes you wish for retroactive birth control.


90 posted on 01/12/2005 6:10:14 PM PST by squirt (POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED, FOR THE SAME REASON)
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To: cyncooper

Osama bin Laden?
Heck, I have NO idea!


91 posted on 01/12/2005 6:15:04 PM PST by onyx
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To: Gomez
Well there it is confirmed...another royal who is clueless. What a sorry state and a disgrace to all the brave Britons who fought the Nazi's in WWII.

Red

92 posted on 01/12/2005 6:30:39 PM PST by Conservative4Ever (Happy New Year....2005)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

Who's ya daddy?!?

93 posted on 01/12/2005 6:51:28 PM PST by pickemuphere
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To: pickemuphere

His daddy is the big dumb one who treated his mother like dirt.
Seems this one inherited the stupid gene from dad.

And they wonder why they might be endanger of ending the Monarchy.


94 posted on 01/12/2005 6:53:25 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Endeavor
Is that all you have to say. At least try to say something provocative or intelligent. Or maybe about the subject that the rest of us are talking about.
95 posted on 01/12/2005 8:20:36 PM PST by fish hawk
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To: Bibman

Great-Grandma you mean.


96 posted on 01/12/2005 8:23:30 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: pickemuphere
Who ya daddy?"""

Sorry but that photo of Harry makes him look like Charles, not like the other guy.

97 posted on 01/12/2005 8:40:32 PM PST by churchillbuff
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To: A CA Guy

treated his mother like dirt. """Well, mayber - - but diana had screws loose. Not unusual for European aristocrats - - all that inbreeding you know.


98 posted on 01/12/2005 8:41:44 PM PST by churchillbuff
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To: churchillbuff

She seemed to have the typical problems of the wealthy and famous.
Substance abuse problems, sleeping around, not being logical and so on.

She was betrayed by the husband though. He is a creep.


99 posted on 01/12/2005 9:04:39 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Gomez

Well, he is German.


100 posted on 01/13/2005 12:40:40 AM PST by nickcarraway
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