Hitler is On the History Channel! No Way!
Here it is, Blogging Against Disability Day, and ... and ... I got nothing to say. Aren't healthy people a minority? There are in my world. Mom, Dad, Gary, Me, Dave, all disabled.
Well, two disability-related things happened to me today:
1. I was all tickled that TeddyJ offered me Long-Term Care insurance without asking me pesky questions ... and then they asked me pesky questions. Feh. So I stuck my neck out and emailed HR, "Is there something I don't understand?" Sneaky bastids. Now they suspect.
2. I suppose lip-reading is disability-related. I just watched the tail-end of a remarkable documentary on the History Channel. They took old silent newsreels and silent films of Hitler, just hanging out in the mountains with Eva, and then used "Lip-reading software" to work out what he's saying. (Get this: Hitler is a dick! I KNOW!) But I have to ask, why couldn't they have done this decades ago with a living walking talking lip-reader? And what about all the other newsreels?
FDR at Yalta?
See? FDR. Another disabled person. We're everywhere. And the History Channel says Hitler had Parkinson's. I just blew your mind on Blogging Against Disability Day.
Hmmm... how did I miss this?
Posted by: sue | May 02, 2008 at 10:00 AM
'Scuse me. I have to go wipe the brains off the wall behind me.
Posted by: Candy | May 02, 2008 at 01:45 PM
Hitler had a mad case of syphilis, so the Parkinson's was surely mild compared to the STD eating his brain.
Yay for disabilities. I mean. Well, yea.
Posted by: Katie | May 02, 2008 at 06:26 PM
Sue - http://www.history.com/shows.do?episodeId=191832&action=detail
Candy - Snort. You can have a sister blog of Katie and call it Exploding Brain.
Katie - Really? Sounds like propaganda to me, like the "Hitler only has one ball" rumor.
Posted by: TheQueen | May 03, 2008 at 12:43 AM
PS The remark to Katie is not to be construed as pro-Hitler in any way, or anti "Odd" ball men.
Posted by: TheQueen | May 03, 2008 at 12:45 AM
All together now, to the Col Bogey tune:
Hitler has only got one ball,
Göring has two but very small,
Himmler has something sim'lar,
But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.
We just had a German exchange student living with us for two months. You have NO IDEA how hard it was not to mention the war.
Posted by: Big Dot | May 03, 2008 at 01:01 AM
I'm totally serious. I took a History of World Leader's course in college and one of the major theories about why he was bat-shit crazy was that he had neuro-syph.
Posted by: Katie | May 03, 2008 at 08:58 AM
Big Dot - All day. All day I've been singing that.
Katie - I thought that was Napoleon. You would think they would have some scrap of Hitler's DNA somewhere ("Clone the nose!" just crept into my brain). Well, but you can only diagnose hereditary things with DNA.
Posted by: TheQueen | May 03, 2008 at 11:48 PM