Damn Interesting has a short article about Virginia Hall, a spy during World War II. Snippet:
In the early 1940s, German secret police agents in Nazi-occupied France were on the lookout for a woman with a wooden leg. She was known only as “the woman with a limp,” but the Gestapo’s many wanted posters described her as “the most dangerous of all Allied spies,” asserting that the Nazis “must find and destroy her.” Her name was Virginia Hall.
I find the name of the blog this is on apt, because the article is damn interesting. Here’s the link.
Dude gets the hair on the back of his head to look like a face. As said by the great Boing Boing, that’s just creepy.
Ah, yes, those nasty Germans, terrorizing the world. Not with bombs, oh no. Something much, much worse. Dresden fruitcake! I suppose we’ll all have to move underground to avoid the terror. However, that’s okay, because if we move underground, we can live in a place like this. And yes, I really would love to have a home like that. Hobbitesque to the extreme!
And, alas, that is all. I felt it was time to bring back the Belt, even if it was just with a few links. Hopefully next week will be better!
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Hi Josh
I read this post of yours after a frustrating day’s work and it really made me smile!
The lunatics are clearly in charge of the asylum on your side of the Atlantic too if Stollen is regarded as a weapon. To test its martial properties one could always try beating someone over the head with it, although I think the human skull is harder than a fruit cake (unless the latter is either extremely stale or has just come out of a freezer). On the other hand, Stollen could be employing stealth technology: it starts by destroying the waistline…
Cheers
Posted 26 Jan 2007 at 7:45 am ¶Woodsy
Woodsy,
Glad it made you smile. I could have told you that the lunatics were in charge over here, if you’d asked!
Posted 26 Jan 2007 at 9:36 am ¶Post a Comment