I told ya I would be back.
BALLONABWEHRKANONE.
There, I said it and I'm not taking it back. Well actually typed it, but, anyways, what a word! Except for a few of you Dutchie's out there I bet ya'll don't know what it means! Is it.......
A. What a good, decent person of German origin says to another after they sneeze?
B. The name of a new German beer? (By the time one can get the name out to a bartender, they could have said give me a Pabst three or four times)
C. A tasty Schnitzel and sauerkraut meal?
D. One of Hitler's numerous military operations,
ie Operation Barbarossa?
E. None of the above?
You have ten seconds to decide starting.................NOW! GO!
Too late. It was E, none of the above. The actual answer is
Z. A balloon defense cannon used by the Germans in the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. It was the first specifically developed Anti-Aircraft gun in history. It achieved one kill of a balloon outside of Paris on November 12, 1870. If ya look carefully you can make out the word balloon and cannon, but the word 'abwehr' probably threw most of you. That's what you get for taking LATIN in high school. What were ya thinking??!!??
Well, that's it for today. See ya next week. Auf Ballonabwehrkanone!
BALLONABWEHRKANONE.
There, I said it and I'm not taking it back. Well actually typed it, but, anyways, what a word! Except for a few of you Dutchie's out there I bet ya'll don't know what it means! Is it.......
A. What a good, decent person of German origin says to another after they sneeze?
B. The name of a new German beer? (By the time one can get the name out to a bartender, they could have said give me a Pabst three or four times)
C. A tasty Schnitzel and sauerkraut meal?
D. One of Hitler's numerous military operations,
ie Operation Barbarossa?
E. None of the above?
You have ten seconds to decide starting.................NOW! GO!
Too late. It was E, none of the above. The actual answer is
Z. A balloon defense cannon used by the Germans in the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. It was the first specifically developed Anti-Aircraft gun in history. It achieved one kill of a balloon outside of Paris on November 12, 1870. If ya look carefully you can make out the word balloon and cannon, but the word 'abwehr' probably threw most of you. That's what you get for taking LATIN in high school. What were ya thinking??!!??
Well, that's it for today. See ya next week. Auf Ballonabwehrkanone!
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