Overpaid, Oversexed and Over Here....

There was a story (probably apocraphyl) about black American servicemen telling women in the UK that they were night fighters and wore camoflauge.

I wonder if that story might not bear some relation to a scene I remember from some old war movie: the heroes are blackening their faces for a nighttime commando raid, and a comic-relief black character (whom I seem to recall was with the unit in a non-combat capacity) comments that he would've been a "natural-born commando."

Was there a shortage of commas because of the war?

- Tony Seybert

We still have SPAM! Wonderful Spam, glorious Spam.

Possibly my all-time favorite British comedy - and in most critics' top ten - was the long running (circa 1969-79) "Dad's Army", about a WW2 Home Guard unit consisting mainly of elderly ex-soldiers, young innocents, and various local eccentrics in a small British seaside village.

Ironically, at the time the show began the Home Guard had been all but forgotten - there wasn't a single book on the subject when the creators Jimmy Perry And David Croft began their research - but the success of the show generated a massive outburst of public interest in the history of the Guard and its contribution to the War effort.

I suspect that the show is virtually unknown in the USA (though apparently a pilot was actually made for a US version!), but it's well worth seeking out a few episodes.

Mark ("Don't panic!")C