Boards in 1939

branie2 · 01-06-2021 9:04pm

saabsaab wrote: »

Nobody wants them. Killing Christ is a black mark against their race.

Technically, it was the Romans who did it

saabsaab · 01-06-2021 9:10pm

branie2 wrote: »

Technically, it was the Romans who did it

True but they turned him in. I'm sure Mussolini is a good Catholic and will listen to the new Pope Pius.

new92 · 02-06-2021 2:12am

knucklehead6 wrote: »

i hear a ship was turned away from Cuba the other day, carrying 937 jews from Germany

Sure the Yanks will take them, I'm sure.

Prefab Sprouter · 02-06-2021 8:05am

odyssey06 wrote: »

The bomber will always get through.

Alexander Korda made a film about this a few years back, may we never see bomber fleets over Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come

TheValeyard · 03-06-2021 7:34pm

"Beer Barrel Polka" by Will Glahe is some song. Well deserved to get to Number One!

Capt'n Midnight · 03-06-2021 7:43pm

Chapman, during his biochemistry days at Munich, had spent years examining and cataloguing all the human glands. He designated each according to a letter of the alphabet, and when he had them all isolated and labelled, he settled down to write a minute medical monograph on each one of them. Gland A, gland B, gland C-Chapman’s scholarly dossiers accumulated. Keats looked in to see him one day and found him apparently stumped. One of the glands would not yield to the experiment.

‘What’s the trouble?’ Keats said.

‘This gland N,’ Chapman replied, ‘is giving me a lot of trouble. But I’m going to keep after it. I won’t let it beat me. I’ll win yet.’

‘That’s the spirit,’ Keats said. Then he began to potter about the place, whistling some tune. Chapman pricked up his ears.

What’s that you’re whistling?’ he asked.

‘Wir fahren gegen N-gland,’ Keats said.

Chapman suddenly swallowed some medical potion he had been working at.

JupiterKid · 03-06-2021 11:39pm

Reviews of The Wizard of Oz and Gone With The Wind, which premiered that year.

The merits of the new fangled modernist architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright in particular.

The price of porter.

saabsaab · 04-06-2021 8:49pm

A friend of a Galway fisherman told me that German U-Boats have a base off the Aran Islands! It can't be found easily as it is disguised as a rocky outcrop. They have food, munitions and fuel stored there for emergencies.

saabsaab · 04-06-2021 9:45pm

The same fella told me that foreign birdwatchers are really spies taking photographs for an invasion!

new92 · 04-06-2021 10:42pm

I stand corrected

TheValeyard · 06-06-2021 11:33am

I see that the ship MS St. Louis, carrying 907 Jewish refugees from Europe, has begun sailing back, Yanks, Cubans and Canadians refused to let them stay.

Up Donegal · 06-06-2021 12:52pm

My post in Boards in early 1939 might be:

"What do ye think of this Hitler guy? Is he just all talk?"

Up Donegal · 06-06-2021 12:54pm

How many of ye were at the parish mission in [town] last week and how often did ye go?

06-06-2021 1:14pm

There was a black man in the village today! Over with a circus from England. The caravan stopped outside Biddy's Post Office-Travel Agent-Groceriies-Licensed Premises-Operating Theatre-&-Fun Emporium and in he walked with another fella to ask for directions to Youghal. Poor Biddy.. she was so taken aback, she blurted out the directions to Killarney by accident.

RandomViewer · 06-06-2021 1:50pm

Up Donegal wrote: »

How many of ye were at the parish mission in [town] last week and how often did ye go?

Anything less than every morning and evening would be sinful, the priest might name you as a heathen from the altar

Ash.J.Williams · 06-06-2021 3:17pm

TheValeyard wrote: »

I see that the ship MS St. Louis, carrying 907 Jewish refugees from Europe, has begun sailing back, Yanks, Cubans and Canadians refused to let them stay.

They’ll be safer at home

branie2 · 06-06-2021 5:33pm

Up Donegal wrote: »

How many of ye were at the parish mission in [town] last week and how often did ye go?

Lovely ceremony!

branie2 · 06-06-2021 5:44pm

MeepMeep2021 wrote: »

There was a black man in the village today! Over with a circus from England. The caravan stopped outside Biddy's Post Office-Travel Agent-Groceriies-Licensed Premises-Operating Theatre-&-Fun Emporium and in he walked with another fella to ask for directions to Youghal. Poor Biddy.. she was so taken aback, she blurted out the directions to Killarney by accident.

Nice to have a bit of diversity

Kaybaykwah · 06-06-2021 5:45pm

MeepMeep2021 wrote: »

There was a black man in the village today! Over with a circus from England. The caravan stopped outside Biddy's Post Office-Travel Agent-Groceriies-Licensed Premises-Operating Theatre-&-Fun Emporium and in he walked with another fella to ask for directions to Youghal. Poor Biddy.. she was so taken aback, she blurted out the directions to Killarney by accident.

You forgot to tell the bit about her forgetting to buy fags for her Da. She got a proper talking to from that, didn't she?

saabsaab · 06-06-2021 10:18pm

branie2 wrote: »

Nice to have a bit of diversity

What's that?

new92 · 06-06-2021 11:15pm

saabsaab wrote: »

What's that?

it's twice as good as a university

dd973 · 06-06-2021 11:32pm

Anyone up for invading Russia?, they're a bunch of pussies.

RandomViewer · 06-06-2021 11:44pm

dd973 wrote: »

Anyone up for invading Russia?, they're a bunch of pussies.

They'd run away at the first sign of trouble, Hitler will be in Moscow with barely a shot fired, That City of Stalingrad will have the Swastika flying in minutes,

RandomViewer · 06-06-2021 11:44pm

dd973 wrote: »

Anyone up for invading Russia?, they're a bunch of pussies.

They'd run away at the first sign of trouble, Hitler will be in Moscow with barely a shot fired, That City of Stalingrad will have the Swastika flying in minutes,

07-06-2021 12:01am

I was charged twelveshillings-n-sixpencethruppencehapenny for a wheelbarrow this morning. Gone be with the days when you could get a decent wheelbarrow for twelveshillings-n-sixpencethruppence.

Quantum Erasure · 07-06-2021 12:18am

MeepMeep2021 wrote: »

There was a black man in the village today! Over with a circus from England. The caravan stopped outside Biddy's Post Office-Travel Agent-Groceriies-Licensed Premises-Operating Theatre-&-Fun Emporium ....

...and undertakers, surely?

indioblack · 07-06-2021 12:30am

RandomViewer wrote: »

They'd run away at the first sign of trouble, Hitler will be in Moscow with barely a shot fired, That City of Stalingrad will have the Swastika flying in minutes,

Molotov and Ribbentrop have signed a non-aggression treaty - has to be bad news for somebody.

gozunda · 07-06-2021 12:36am

Travel forum

Thread: Which bike?
Podge O'Whelen
What type of high nelly should I buy? Are brakes necessary?

Thread: Over there somewhere.
Far Shores:
I hear there's going to be some travel restrictions for a couple of months. Is this true?

Religion:

Thread: Catholicism (there is only one)
Holy Rosary:
How many times a week do you go to mass and or confession? Answers on a postcard to AB McQuaid. Dublin.

07-06-2021 1:35am

The town council of Hannover deciding it's probably a good time to invest in infrastructure and get some new buildings going.

Quantum Erasure · 07-06-2021 1:57am

Deleted User wrote: »

The town council of Hannover deciding it's probably a good time to invest in infrastructure and get some new buildings going.

Say what you like about him, but that Adolf Hitler has good taste in architecture.

Having said that, I hope he's not planning any major projects in Dresden. Beautiful city with loads of historic buildings

indioblack · 07-06-2021 2:08am

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Say what you like about him, but that Adolf Hitler has good taste in architecture.

Having said that, I hope he's not planning any major projects in Dresden. Beautiful city with loads of historic buildings

....like Warsaw.

saabsaab · 07-06-2021 6:19pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Say what you like about him, but that Adolf Hitler has good taste in architecture.

Having said that, I hope he's not planning any major projects in Dresden. Beautiful city with loads of historic buildings

It's said he's interested in expanding his living room.

RandomViewer · 07-06-2021 8:37pm

saabsaab wrote: »

It's saod he's interested in expanding his living room.

Supposed to be a great housepainter, 2 bedroom house,2coats all in one day

saabsaab · 08-06-2021 10:08pm

RandomViewer wrote: »

Supposed to be a great housepainter, 2 bedroom house,2coats all in one day

He might get a job with our lads on the building sites if the Nazi thing doesn't work out.

branie2 · 08-06-2021 10:11pm

saabsaab wrote: »

It's said he's interested in expanding his living room.

I think you means Lebensraum

saabsaab · 08-06-2021 10:22pm

branie2 wrote: »

I think you means Lebensraum

That's the German for extension?

branie2 · 08-06-2021 10:24pm

breathing room, to be more accurate

saabsaab · 10-06-2021 7:05pm

branie2 wrote: »

breathing room, to be more accurate

I must get one of those rooms.

10-06-2021 7:07pm

The Irish Air Corps should buy Hurricanes

saabsaab · 10-06-2021 10:55pm

1874 wrote: »

The Irish Air Corps should buy Hurricanes

Probably too expensive and the British won't supply such advanced aircraft to us.

Rawr · 10-06-2021 11:18pm

branie2 wrote: »

breathing room, to be more accurate

So a conservatory then?
He wants to give all Germans conservatories in their gardens?
Doesn't sound that bad....

Jhcx · 11-06-2021 12:07am

Kaybaykwah wrote: »

You forgot to tell the bit about her forgetting to buy fags for her Da. She got a proper talking to from that, didn't she?

Did anyone give him a stick to beat her with?

knucklehead6 · 11-06-2021 6:08am

Good to see the pope recognising the valiant efforts of the 3200 veterans of the Spanish war.

Defenders of the civilisation of Spain and the faith of the church, led by General Franco

20silkcut · 11-06-2021 8:25am

The thought just struck me my own date of birth is closer to the outbreak of world war 2 than it is to the current date.
In 100 years we’ll all be seen as roughly the generation after world war 2 our lives being lived much closer to the events of world war 2 and of little relevance to whatever is happening in 2121.
The less nuanced observers of the future will nearly see us as being part of it.

branie2 · 11-06-2021 9:14am

knucklehead6 wrote: »

Good to see the pope recognising the valiant efforts of the 3200 veterans of the Spanish war.

Defenders of the civilisation of Spain and the faith of the church, led by General Franco

Is that you, Eoin O'Duffy?

20silkcut · 11-06-2021 10:19am

branie2 wrote: »

I think you means Lebensraum

Your reading too much of that mein kampf that was just the ramblings of a young dissafected man in the aftermath of the bitter defeat in the Great War.
Germany is different now.

Hitler is a pacifist now he says it himself he just wants what’s best for German people as any leader of any country would want.
Do you honestly think he would sign a non aggression pact with Stalin if he was hell bent on that lebensraum nonsense.
What’s he going to do with all the people currently living in these so called lebensraum areas just get rid of them? It’s impossible.
It’s all nonsense will never happen.

odyssey06 · 11-06-2021 10:26am

knucklehead6 wrote: »

Good to see the pope recognising the valiant efforts of the 3200 veterans of the Spanish war.

Defenders of the civilisation of Spain and the faith of the church, led by General Franco

We need a new Holy League to stand firm against these godless Bolsheviks.

Kaybaykwah · 11-06-2021 10:31am

Jhcx wrote: »

Did anyone give him a stick to beat her with?

Didn't hafta. He's usually keen on using his belt. Likes the swishing sound he says.

Capt'n Midnight · 11-06-2021 12:30pm

saabsaab wrote: »

Probably too expensive and the British won't supply such advanced aircraft to us.

But if they land here we get to keep them ?

saabsaab · 11-06-2021 1:06pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

But if they land here we get to keep them ?

True enough but we'll need spares to keep them flying. Still it would be nice to have at least a few planes that could intercept a bomber if needed. Like going to bomb someplace important like the Dail or a major creamery.

Boards in 1939

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