Your quote of the day

"It goes without saying that the North Germans can't assimilate our folk-lore. Do you know anything more ridiculous than a Berliner in leather shorts? A Scotsman can be recieved in London, in the best society, dressed in his national costume - but anyone in Berlin who put on a Tyrol costume would give the impression that he was going to Carnival. It was with great reluctance that I had definately to give up wearing leather shorts. It was too much of a complication for me to have to change my clothes several times a day, like a mannequin, to adapt myself to the psychology of my visitors. In such dress, I couldn't have been taken seriously by Germans from north of Coburg. Throughout my youth, even in winter, I never wore anything else.

I first of all adopted the kind of costume that goes with riding-boots, then I fell back on the bourgeois pair of trousers. Indeed, as soon as one gives up the most comfortable clothes, why should one take to the most uncomfortable in exchange? But it's rather sad to see the old costumes gradually dying out.

I suggested to Himmler that he might dress two or three guards units in leather shorts. Obviously they would have to be handsome chaps, and not necessarily all from the South. I can quite well imagine a soldier with a Hamburg accent displaying sunburnt knees.

Apart from all that, leather shorts have an advantage that one's not afraid of getting them dirty. On the contrary. they're ennobled by stains, like a Stradivarious by age. In Germany nowadays all the young men are wearing leather shorts.

There are two things that I find charming when worn by young people - short trousers and skiing trousers. To think that there are idiots who wanted to make them wear boots! The habit of skiing can never be too much encouraged - because of Russia."

- Adolf Hitler..... on the evening of 17th February 1942.

I found an old quote I'd written down from my economics teacher and thought it kinda counts...

"And then we have the Africans, but we don't care about them because they're all poor."

"Life, if you're fat, is a minefield- you have to pick your way, otherwise you blow up" Miriam Margolyes

"Animals are humans too!" Said my professor today

OK, sorry Zagros ...
Well than, my quote for the day is:

"Don't get mad, get sadistic!"

- Playstation 2 game 'Destroy All Humans!'


Edited by Knights - 23-Jan-2007 at 08:39

let slip the dogs of war

Originally posted by Knights "Nothing is what rocks dream about" - Aristotle

"Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening."

- Richard Dawkins 

Edited by Praetor - 20-Jan-2007 at 07:39

Don't be too superstitious it will only bring up missfortune.