OT: Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago today
Scott
Dan Bracuk
>http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/autumn.of.change/berlin.wall/
Here is what it looked like in September.
http://s275.photobucket.com/albums/jj291/DanBracuk/a_Budapest_Vienna_Prague_Berlin_2009/?action=view¤t=g_berlin_dan_pat.jpg
I was surprised at how thin it was. Couple of inches at the most.
Scott
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They kept some of it up so that hippies and other artists had a place to
express themselves.
Dan Bracuk
>They kept some of it up so that hippies and other artists had a place to
>express themselves.
The artists have been hired by the city to cover up the grafitti.
Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick
I think it was the machine guns that mostly did the trick.
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> I think it was the machine guns that mostly did the trick.
"In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist
indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman.
A huge totalitarian system has been brought to its knees because nobody
wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on
the planet." -- P. J. O'Rourke -
Greg Mossman
> "Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick" <Pop...@finalprotectivefire.com> wrote in
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> > I think it was the machine guns that mostly did the trick.
>
> "In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist
> indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman.
> A huge totalitarian system has been brought to its knees because nobody
> wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on
> the planet." -- P. J. O'Rourke -
On the other hand, lots of people wear shoes made in Communist China.
Joerg Hahn
Greg Mossman wrote:
>> indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman.
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> On the other hand, lots of people wear shoes made in Communist China.
And Sony is an american company?
Or is it my poor understanding that Rourke ment the so called "free
western world"?
scnr
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Joerg Hahn
Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick wrote:
> I think it was the machine guns that mostly did the trick.
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And mine fields and automately triggered guns and dogs and watch towers
and fence and....
The wall became the symbol for it because it was most prominent visible.
If they would have used glas instead of concrete it would have liked
more to a monkey cage in a zoo...
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> Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick wrote:
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>> I think it was the machine guns that mostly did the trick.
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> And mine fields and automately triggered guns and dogs and watch towers
> and fence and....
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> The wall became the symbol for it because it was most prominent visible.
> If they would have used glas instead of concrete it would have liked more
> to a monkey cage in a zoo...
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