When my brothers and I were little we used to play a game called Mary & Joseph (hmmm....wonder where we got those names...). In the game we were orphans running away from Nazis. My mom eventually changed "Nazis" to "nuns" because we were screaming "Nazi!" in public and that wasn't going over so well. We had no idea what Nazis were, but we knew they were bad.
Yesterday I was driving three of our campers from Compton to the theatre and they were chatting with each other in the back seat. Occasionally as they were talking, the boys would randomly say, "German" and the conversation would continue. It happened a bunch of times so I asked the oldest boy, Tyquone, why they were doing that. He explained by saying, "Whenever someone says something really stupid, we say 'German' and hit them in the head." I asked him why and he said it was just something they always did.
Interesting.
I started this blog when I went abroad a few years ago to document my travels. Now it is a place for me to write random thoughts. Check out the right-hand column for old entries.
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Hey! Sorry to be a stalker, but I am a friend of Brandon's and I saw your comment on his site, that led to your site, and I just had to comment: When I was young, I also played "running from Nazis"! I thought it was kind of interesting, so I based a short film I made senior year of college on that whole notion. It's always so cool (not the right word?) when I come across people who did the same thing.
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