Simon Wiesenthal

[poliphilo]

mahaloluinoa says she hasn't read anything on LJ about the death of Simon Wiesenthal but lots about some guy called Bob Denver.

Time to correct this.

Wiesenthal was the man who refused to let the Nazis get away with it. A holocaust survivor himself, he headed a mom and pop organisation that tracked fugitive nazis all over the globe and ran them to earth. His biggest coup was finding and arranging the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the speccy little bureacrat who do more than anyone else to industrialise mass murder.

Wisenthal said of his work that he was putting down a marker. He wanted the political killers and torturers of the future to be running scared, to know that sooner or later someone would come looking for them.

He was a great and righteous man.

"Baruch dayan emet"

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Wiesenthal was...

[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

a great and righteous man, but let's face it, he was no Gilligan. ;)

Re: Wiesenthal was...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ach- so that's who Bob Denver was!

Honestly, I didn't know. I've heard of the show, but it never actually played over here.

Re: Wiesenthal was...

[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

Actually he played a wonderful teenage beatnik "wannabe" named "Maynard C. Krebs" in an earlier series called Dobie Gillis back in the day... and he was very special in a lot of ways... no Wiesenthal though, truth be told.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We get a lot of US TV over here, but there are some "classic" shows that have never made the crossing.

Another example is the Brady Bunch. They released the recent movie in our cinemas and the British public stayed away in droves.

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[philtration.livejournal.com]

You had to see the show to understand the parody of the film. Showing the movie in a country that never aired the TV show was pretty stupid.

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[airstrip.livejournal.com]

I take it you like Yellow Tail?

Yellowtail...

[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

Last month I went to Florida for a visit. I got sick while I was there and my new heart doctor recommended a glass of red wine with dinner every day. As a rule I don't care for red wine, but a really savvy waiter in a very posh restaurant opened me a bottle of Yellowtail. Yummy stuff... for a prescription, I thought.

Now I'm back home in Oklahoma. We have state owned liquor stores here and I am limited to only the brands that they stock. I may never buy another legal bottle of Yellowtail and I'm a little obsessive about it. What can I say? I get really riled when the state tells me what I can't have.

Re: Yellowtail...

[airstrip.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The type really gets lost when you shrink their logo, you can take this one.