Ironies in History

[SGI Butch]

This thread is for all the funny things that have happened through out history.



-Like how the US spent millions inventing a pen that could write in space and the russians just used pencils.

-Benito Mussolini's favorite characters were Laurel and Hardy.

-Russians spent millions of dollars trying to produce real versions of the James Bond gadgets that they thought were real, and the British SAS called the producers to wonder about the under water breathing aparatus seen in thunder ball.

 

[stalin006]

ummmh....... the KGB did developed quite a few interesting espionage devices.

 

[stalin006]

oh also the pen thing is just a legend, it never happened....... or at least not that way.

 

[Hitro]

Originally posted by stalin006
ummmh....... the KGB did developed quite a few interesting espionage devices.

An intelligence agency developed espionage devices, now that's ironic.

Heinrich Himmler, looking the way he did, being the head of the SS is ironic...

 

[Sodfather]

The following may or may not be true, but I did hear it from a reliable source:

Abe Lincoln, proclaimed as the president who freed the slaves, was not concerned with freeing the slaves at all - he anticipaed the Africans leaving America and returning to Africa after they were freed. Oops.

Edit: I-RO-NY! (Pronounce as in "DY-NO-MITE!")

 

[Archer 007]

How about these.

Have a history teacher explain this ---- If they can. Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their children while living in the White House. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both Presidents were shot in the head. Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln. Both were assassinated by Southerners. Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939. Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names are composed of fifteen letters. Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.' Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln.' Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater. Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials. And, here's the kicker: A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland. A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

 

[pawpaw]

Originally posted by archer_007
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

no a week before he was " in " marilyn monroe

 

[jack merchant]

She may have had a headache though pawpaw .


Fascinating stuff, archer .

 

[Xen]

@sodfather- close, but not quite- before the first African American regiments served in the civil war, lincoln was an advocate of returning slaves back to Africa in the nation of Liberia, as he did not see the point in them gaining freedom, and staying in the nation when they did nto fight for it- this attitude stopped after the first Black regiments fought in the war- at least that what i gatherd from my American history class last year

 

[naervod]

Adolf Hitler, who looked more like a Jew than most people in Germany. He described the perfect German as tall, blond haired, and blue eyed, while he was short, brown eyed, and brown-haired.

 

[Fëanor]

the USA spent $2 billion funding and training Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban

now the USA is spending many more millions fighting him and his followers

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Pls keep it historical - more to beyond the scope of what'll be commonly considered as current issues. Thanks.

PS Warning directed esp at Feanor.

 

[sabo]

Originally posted by naervod
Adolf Hitler, who looked more like a Jew than most people in Germany. He described the perfect German as tall, blond haired, and blue eyed, while he was short, brown eyed, and brown-haired.

all the pics I've seen of Hitler show him with Blue eyes, did they colorize the pics?

 

[Garry Denke]

Originally posted by SGI Butch
This thread is for all the funny things that have happened through out history.

There are NO Ironies in History, only Perceptions of History.
Here, I will demonstrate:

-Like how the US spent millions inventing a pen that could write in space and the russians just used pencils.

No wonder the russians ran out of cash,
no cashier would accept their checks.

Well, there you have it.
Garry Denke, Geologist

 

[Richard III]

Originally posted by Xen
@sodfather- close, but not quite- before the first African American regiments served in the civil war, lincoln was an advocate of returning slaves back to Africa in the nation of Liberia, as he did not see the point in them gaining freedom, and staying in the nation when they did nto fight for it- this attitude stopped after the first Black regiments fought in the war- at least that what i gatherd from my American history class last year

God, if that's what you're learning in school, I weep for the future.

If you're looking for a Civil War irony, none better than the situation of hundreds of thousands of slaves, who, upon finding that they were free, were also totally unprepared to do anything about it, and so found themselves more or less forced to sign indenture papers and ten-year contracts to stay in the same places doing the same jobs that they did when they were slaves.

The product of poor planning for the post-war phase.

Which reminds me; another supreme irony: George Bush refusing to invade Iraq to help a popular uprising against Saddam after liberating Kuwait because he didn't have a UN mandate to do it.

I think you know the rest!

R.III

 

[stalin006]

Originally posted by naervod
Adolf Hitler, who looked more like a Jew than most people in Germany. He described the perfect German as tall, blond haired, and blue eyed, while he was short, brown eyed, and brown-haired.

what exaclty do Jews look like? sterotypes? well anyways, he had blue eyes, and his hair was black, everyone assumes they are brown because they remember him in white and black films

 

[puglover]

Hitler had claustrophobia and had mirrors put into the elevator so it would look bigger.

 

[rilnator]

Originally posted by stalin006


what exaclty do Jews look like? sterotypes? well anyways, he had blue eyes, and his hair was black, everyone assumes they are brown because they remember him in white and black films

I was always under the impression he had these captivating brown eyes.
While he had no qualms about killing millions of people he simply detested blood sports.

 

[Sims2789]

bin Laden has a Digital Watch, and the first computer was made by the West.

 

[Kafka2]

n 1: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid" [syn: sarcasm, satire, caustic remark] 2: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" 3: a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs.

There's a certain irony in a thread about irony being made up of comments by several people with a dubious grasp of the concept.