Sven Somme was pursued by 900 German soldiers with sniffer dogs across the mountains of occupied Norway before he reaching safety, having being arrested for spying for the Allies.




not amused

Jew shoe

My daring escape from the three mall Rent-A-Cops by diving into the men's room suddenly seems less adventurous.

ImFromSnohomish: Jew shoe

Hey, everyone! It RHYMES.

Seriously, bub, kill yourself.

ZOMG NAZIS

wow, those shoes have been through snow, ice, rocks, and sven somme!


/really tried to find a better joke about his name.

pursued by 900 Nazi soldiers

Pfft, nazi soldiers. Even our greenest GI could take out, like, 10 of them without breaking a sweat.

those are brand new 'distressed wing tips' by Kenneth Cole

Tarx: wow, those shoes have been through snow, ice, rocks, and sven somme!

/hahaha
//good enough

Tarx: wow, those shoes have been through snow, ice, rocks, and sven somme!


/really tried to find a better joke about his name.

Don't forget krauts.

phhhttt. my dad walked from yugoslavia to italy on a empty stomach only to be held in a internment camp at the age of 16 after having his older brothers die in combat during ww2.his grandmother told the 4 children to walk in various directions and join whatever army they met. he fought in the korean war to prove he'd be a good american while never have set foot in this country.
immigrants are still sadly doing this today and fighting in iraq.

You can tell a lot about a man from his shoes.

Pontus and the Nail Drivers: Hey, everyone! It RHYMES.

Seriously, bub, kill yourself.

Hey, everyone! Its a douchebag who comes in here making no article-related post or any type of witty comment whatsoever, instead belittling a 2 second post and then running away with glee thinking, "damn i wouldnt have said that, I must be 10x smarter than that guy, he should go die to prove my superiority, and i might as well show the rest of the farkers this too."

Seriously dude, go fark yourself and your small penis

Pontus and the Nail Drivers: ImFromSnohomish: Jew shoe

Hey, everyone! It RHYMES.

Seriously, bub, kill yourself.

Looks like someone's rather sensitive about his semitic footwear.

a 200-mile escape over ice and snow, pursued by 900 Nazi soldiers

But was it uphill both directions?

wow, that is amazing
/no, thats not a tear...
/im gonna go grab some tissues, for my cold..

potee: a 200-mile escape over ice and snow, pursued by 900 Nazi soldiers

But was it uphill both directions?

Only when standing on top of a mountain.

So I sat all the way through a Carrot Top stand up once

BEAT THAT

Link (new window) Unimpressed.

Oldiron_79

You beat me too it. I couldn't remember his name

Pontus and the Nail Drivers: ImFromSnohomish: Jew shoe

Hey, everyone! It RHYMES.

Seriously, bub, kill yourself.

Captain Sandy Vagina to the rescue!

FTFA: He avoided leaving footprints in the deep snow drifts by walking through icy streams and leaping from tree to tree, .... The giant larch, the redwood, the mighty scots pine.





Sorry, it's the first thing I thought of when I read that sentence.

Reminds me of "Wag the Dog" ...*sings* "good old shoe"

"...where they going...where they been...you can tell lots about a person by their shoes."

robsul82: "...where they going...where they been...you can tell lots about a person by their shoes."

Forrest Gump?



tonesskin: Captain Sandy Vagina to the rescue!

I'd hate to be a sailor on his ship.

thats all kinds of awesome

Finally, a plot that would make a decent movie. Naah, how about another documentary about how the USA sucks? Or maybe one that glorifies immorality or drug use? OK.

Oldiron_79: Link (new window) Unimpressed.

That Wikipedia entry reads like a bad keystone kops skit. People running off on their own, orders not being heard, People not noticed to be missing for hours... wow.

200 miles in 8 days through rocky desert terrain is pretty damned impressive though

Tarx:
tonesskin: Captain Sandy Vagina to the rescue!

I'd hate to be a sailor on his ship.

A seaman, even?

Wow... He told you he was hardcore - and he was right.

Also not impressed, one Andrée de Jongh (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/magazine/30dejongh-t.html):
"Her implausibility was what made her formidable. When the war started, Dédée de Jongh quit her job as a commercial artist and moved into her parents' house in Brussels. Volunteering with the Belgian Red Cross, she began nursing wounded Allied soldiers. After her country surrendered to the Nazis in May 1940, after British troops were evacuated and the battle shifted to the air, de Jongh turned her attention to the men who had been shot out of the sky.
...
In August 1941, she made a trial run. With the grudging help of a Basque guide, who insisted she at least change out of her skirt and into a pair of borrowed trousers, de Jongh climbed a smugglers' route over the Pyrenees and into Spain with two Belgians and a Scottish soldier in tow. Arriving at the British consulate in Bilbao, she was greeted with skepticism. You've done what?"

I hate German Nazis

Matches_Malone: Oldiron_79: Link (new window) Unimpressed.

That Wikipedia entry reads like a bad keystone kops skit. People running off on their own, orders not being heard, People not noticed to be missing for hours... wow.

200 miles in 8 days through rocky desert terrain is pretty damned impressive though

That's exactly what I was thinking. I know, "Arm Chair Quarterback" and all, but there have been much better organized and executed special ops missions, I'm thinking.

/For example, read the story about the British commandos taking out the German nuclear program in Norway.

1952: "I was pursued by 10 Nazi soldiers. Did I say 10? More like 25!

1955: "...pursued by 50 Nazi soldiers. Did I say 50? More like 100!

Oldiron_79: Link (new window) Unimpressed.

Let's see...are you unimpressed that an civilian spy, who more than likely wasn't trained for survival went through 200 miles in frigid climate while deep inside of an enemy?

Perhaps because he was facing one of the greatest threats of the 20th century without being in a army group?

Both men are heroes. I don't give a damn if you are or are not impressed. Or if you claim that "Cris Ryan" is impressed or unimpressed.

Oh FINALLY I get to use this.

I've said it before, and now I'll say it again: Dirty, filthy, stinking Nazis.

I've said it before, and now I'll say it again: Dirty, filthy, stinking Nazis.

Boy, leave it to you to stir up controversy.

randompeskar: potee: a 200-mile escape over ice and snow, pursued by 900 Nazi soldiers

But was it uphill both directions?

Only when standing on top of a mountain.

Wouldn't that be in the middle of a valley?

Back in the 70's, when I was a kid at an airshow, an American WW2 vet told me "Don't believe all the movie and TV b.s. If one of our guys was worth 2 of theirs, the war would've been over by 42. Hell, if one of our guys was worth one of theirs, we would've won by 43. The fact is, they had some of the toughest SOB's in uniform, combined with the best-trained NCO's and Officers, and it took us a couple of years just to get up to speed with stuff they'd learned in the first year of fighting the Russians."

moar funny pictures

Darth_Lukecash: Oldiron_79: Link (new window) Unimpressed.

Let's see...are you unimpressed that an civilian spy, who more than likely wasn't trained for survival went through 200 miles in frigid climate while deep inside of an enemy?

Perhaps because he was facing one of the greatest threats of the 20th century without being in a army group?

Both men are heroes. I don't give a damn if you are or are not impressed. Or if you claim that "Cris Ryan" is impressed or unimpressed.

I am actually impressed. I was just using the ye olde "Unimpressed and then show more hardcore example" fark Cliche. Please get your panties out of a wad.

19 year old kid? I thought it was supposed to be an old man...

Goodfella: I hate German Nazis

The Illinois ones suck too.

/Won't comment on the story.
//I really have nothing much to add to a great story already.

Hero.

/tiny fist to the haters

You guys might not know this if ya went ta publik skewl, but there were four Norwegian soldiers who just about made sure the Germans would loas WWII.

The Krauts had built their heavy water reactior factory into the side of a mountain, where the cliffs overhung so far, bombs were impossible. To the rear, there was a frozen wasteland so vast, they figured nothing on earth could cross it.

They figured wrong.

Four Norwegians on skiis crossed the distance in almost 100 days, blew up the heavy water factory, and deprived Germany of the atomic bomb.

Wenn nicht fuer ihnen, dann wuerde ich diieses wahrscheinlich auf Deutsch geschrieben.

Norwegians also make somne stuff called Akavit, which is whiskey distilled to about 160 proof, then tapped off into kegs and sent round the world on a ship to season and age it.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm, Akavit. Knock ya on yer ass a bit.

olddinosaur: You guys might not know this if ya went ta publik skewl, but there were four Norwegian soldiers who just about made sure the Germans would loas WWII.

The Krauts had built their heavy water reactior factory into the side of a mountain, where the cliffs overhung so far, bombs were impossible. To the rear, there was a frozen wasteland so vast, they figured nothing on earth could cross it.

They figured wrong.

Four Norwegians on skiis crossed the distance in almost 100 days, blew up the heavy water factory, and deprived Germany of the atomic bomb.

With all due respect to these heroes, the modern consensus is that Germany would not have made a bomb even if they had the Norwegian heavy water. You might want to check your facts more carefully before mocking the public school system.

"Capain Darling:" Nazi Germany wasn contemptuous of the "judenphysik" inherent in Relativity, but dfecided to pursue the atomicsubmarine anyway.

Max Planck ritually advised them the atomic bomb was not feasable, and he was smart enough to know better.

I always thought we owed that old bird a bigger debt of gratitude than we give him credit for.

As for public school, show me ONE graduate who knows global warming is a hoax, and government is not the answer to all the world's ills.

\\\ it is indoctrination, not educaton.

\\ wake up and smell the coffee.

You Sven Somme and you lose Somme!