Posted on 07/12/2006 10:08:10 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
I've always thought the show had a revolting premise.
Married her, cheated on her, filmed porn with her and without her, and then died alone, naked in a hotel room. Sounds like he would have been better off in a POW camp.
This is stupid. No one believes Hogan's Heros reflects reality any more than one believes what happens in road runner cartoons. They are both good for laughs and there is nothing wrong with laughing.
I want to see McQeen jump that last fence on the bike.
The Nazis actually liked the British, who they never really wanted to fight at all. They wanted the Brits to be allies.
French Aryanity (?) had been corrupted by mixing with inferior races, and America had blacks and Jews all over the place. So they despised both groups.
Leon Askin who played Burkhalter passed away just last year, at the age of 97!!!
Poetic justice
Saw Werner interviewed once. What ain interesting career and life he had with his father and of his own!
Iron Eyes Cody, the so called Indian was actually born in Louisiana of Sicilian born parents. Jay Silverheels hated him because he knew he was a fake.
Hey who could forget Don Rickles as "Bald Eagle". Edward Everett Horton as Hekawi medicine man Roaring Chicken. and Bob Diamond as Crazy Cat.
What do you mean "could have a fair point?" It was a TV show for heaven's sakes.
That would be like saying the Texas oil economy crashed due to Ewing Oil's foreign ventures.
I dunno. I think there's something to be said for being sensitive about such things. I always wondered how the people who died on the Titanic felt about that movie a couple years back.
Not to mention Mel Brooks as a Yiddish speaking indian in Blazing Saddles.
Oh, my God. So, are you saying none of these things are really true??
1. During all police investigations it will be necessary to visit a strip joint at least once.
2. All beds have special L-shaped top sheets which reach up to armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.
3. It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
4. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
5. Large loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the price range of most people - whether they are employed or not.
6. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.
7. At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.
8. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
9. If you decide to start dancing in the street everyone you bump into will know all the steps.
10. Should you decide to defuse a bomb don't worry which wire to cut. You will always choose the right one.
11. Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communications system of any invading alien society.
12. Extremely beautiful and intelligent women are likely to become prostitutes or welders.
13. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
14. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.
15. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned to a partner who is their total opposite.
16. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.
17. Radiation causes interesting mutations - not to your future children but to you, right there and then.
18. If you're blonde and pretty, it is possible to become an expert on nuclear fission at the age of 23.
19. Honest and hard working policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before their retirement.
20. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their archenemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers and man eating sharks which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.
He was from Bridgeport CT so POW camp would have been an improvement, indeed.
""Knight Rider" taught me that one can carry on an intelligent conversation with a Trans Am.
-Eric"
Do you remember a short lived show called AutoMan? Came out after Knight Rider and supposedly the guy was electronic or something but he could make 90 degreee turns while travelling at 300mph... hehehehehe
He was also a very good violinist, not the bumbling musician that Klink was. Banner was also a Jew.
He wasn't alone when he died. His murderer was there as well.
It would be kind of hard to poll them.
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