Carry on kampfing

6 years after British Satellite Broadcasting came a cropper for airing a show called Heil Honey I’m Home, Adolf Hitler is once against the subject of an alleged comedy.

This time it’s a German film, Mein Fuhrer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler, which portrays the mono-testicled Austrian as “a bed-wetting drug addict who takes baths with a toy battleship and dresses his Alsatian dog Blondi in an SS uniform.”
Out in Germany this week, it’s the work of Swiss Jewish director Dani Levy who says he wants to follow in the tradition of Charlie Chaplins’s 1940 classic, The Great Dictator.
Needless to say, the film isn’t to everyone’s taste with the Welt Am Sonntag newspaper bemoaning that, “The dramaturgy is inconsistent, most of the jokes are flat, harmless or stale, and what’s particularly offensive is that Adolf Hitler is given quite sympathetic character traits.” Apart from that they loved it.
Find out more at www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,458387,00.html.
From there it’s but a mere mouse-click to foodtube.livejournal.com/2390.html where an expat Brit living in Beijing details his culinary adventures.
“The food here is generally excellent, but there’s one menu item that’s always interested me more than the others – ‘tasty crispy silkworm’," he reports. "The picture in the menu looked genuinely appealing, if a little on the large side, portion-wise. If I was being presented with the caterpillars or the moths I might think twice about putting them into my mouth, but when they arrived these looked not particularly insect-like, but more like some delicious golden-brown vegetable.
“On the side there was a small saucer of sesame seeds and salt, presumably for dipping. The first thing I noticed was the smell. It wasn’t good. Something like burned hair, which, in a sense, it was. The smell was pervasive and lingering. I didn’t like it at all.”
Yum!
If you’ve €75 million burning a hole in your pocket, the world’s smallest micronation is up for sale at www.inmobiliarianaranja.es/sealand.html
Originally a Second World War fort located in international waters off the Essex coast, the Sealand was set-up in 1967 by former pirate radio boss ‘Prince’ Roy Bates who issues his own stamps, money, passports and titles.
If you thought Gary Lightbody was a Simpsons obsessive, cop an eyeful of the slightly scary www.snpp.com. Each of the show's 400 episodes is given the C:S:I treatment by people who really ought to get out more.
Best of all is the ‘Upcoming’ section, which has details of such soon-to-be-aired episodes as G.I. D’oh, in which “Bart signs a promise to join the Army at 18. When Homer goes down to the recruitment centre to get him out of it, he does, but ends up enlisting himself.”
Which just leaves time for quick visits to www.thetowersoflondon.com (proof that Donny Tourette is an even more rubbish rocker than Preston); www.kennyeverett.co.uk (Cleo Rocas’ former employer); and www.shilpa-shetty.com (we’re in love!).