# 66 Years ago **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2007, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688 "2007-12-20T08:21:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/1 "2007-12-20T08:21:33Z")
December 20th 1941. On this night the Luftwaffe blitzed Manchester in an effort to put the docks out of action, they failed miserably. What they did succeed in doing was to plant a bomb right down the tall chimney of the Cornbrook Brewery thereby utterly destroying the whole place. :eek: The population of Manchester was outraged at the war crime, war is war but you do _not_ bomb a brewery, ever. :mad: Fat Herman himself was distraught ☹ when he heard the news as he was rather fond of the odd gargle, Adolf on the other hand being a teetotaller and a thoroughly miserable bastard was overjoyed and awarded the crew of the bomber the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Bottle Caps. The same night a bomb also fell on Manchester Uniteds ground at Old Trafford 😃 much to the delight of the Manchester City fans. 😃 * * * Yours truly was born this night, thrust into a cold uncaring world which bristled with bombs, bullets, bayonets and barrage balloons. The midwife took one look at me, smacked my father and ran screaming into the night stopping only at Prestwich mental hospital and begging to be admitted. Despite the efforts of the Nazis over the ensuing years to kill me I survived and here I am. #Happy Birthday to me, happy…oh sod it# ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/2 "2007-12-20T08:27:56Z")
I hope you have a very happy birthday, **chowder**! ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/3 "2007-12-20T08:31:17Z")
2/3 devil eh? Many Happy Returns! ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/4 "2007-12-20T08:45:20Z")
Thank you people. The main drawback in having a birthday near to Christmas is that you never get as many prezzies, what you do get is “Here you are, this is your birthday AND Chrimble prezzie” Tight fisted gits ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/5 "2007-12-20T09:10:25Z")
happy birthday - great post ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/6 "2007-12-20T09:19:54Z")
Happy birthday, **chowder**! ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/7 "2007-12-20T09:23:25Z")
Many happy returns! ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/8 "2007-12-20T09:33:59Z")
Happy birthday, **chowder**! Glad the beastly Hun failed to nip you in the bud. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/9 "2007-12-20T09:58:24Z")
Happy birthday! [QUOTE=chowder] The main drawback in having a birthday near to Christmas is that you never get as many prezzies, what you do get is “Here you are, this is your birthday AND Chrimble prezzie” Tight fisted gits [/QUOTE] My Grandfather suffered from this. It wasn’t until he was married that he ever got a specific Birthday present. (My father, whose birthday is Friday, didn’t have quite the same problem, having been raised Jewish.) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/10 "2007-12-20T09:58:37Z")
Göring and Hitler actually brought you beer and medals and dropped you down a chimney in England the night you were born? That’s perversely cool, kind of like the Three Magi but evil. Happy birthday! Out of curiosity, do you have any memories of the war? (And how’d you drive out the Nazis before you were 5?) ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/11 "2007-12-20T10:52:11Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Out of curiosity, do you have any memories of the war? (And how’d you drive out the Nazis before you were 5?) [/QUOTE] Well, that`s a rather unknown story of WWII, and if I may I`d like to share it with you. In the late 1944 the RAF developed a version of their Grand Slam bomb, called the Grand Stink, it was filled with \*\*Chowder`s** special brew of soiled diapers. The plan was to drop a single Grand Stink in central Berlin, therefore either forcing a complete surrender of the Germans or downright kill a large percentage of the city`s population and Nazi leadership. However the matter of crimes against humanity was already being discussed in the context of the war`s aftermath, so to avoid being hoisted by their own petard the RAF cancelled the project and buried the Grand Stink in Dounreay (the whole nuclear brouhaha was only a cover up of the more insidious and dangerous waste hidden there). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/12 "2007-12-20T11:38:35Z")
Happy birthday, old man! ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/13 "2007-12-20T11:44:23Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] The main drawback in having a birthday near to Christmas is that you never get as many prezzies, what you do get is “Here you are, this is your birthday AND Chrimble prezzie” Tight fisted gits [/QUOTE] Mine’s 2nd January, so I can empathise…bitterly.. But Happy Birthday **chowder** - you’re the Paragon of Northern Grit. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/14 "2007-12-20T11:57:16Z")
Wishing you a good day, a good year and a great life. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/15 "2007-12-20T12:13:23Z")
Happy birthday auld yin! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/16 "2007-12-20T12:36:27Z")
**chowder** , I had no idea you were such an O.F.! 😃 [sub]ducks and runs…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/17 "2007-12-20T13:05:33Z")
Great OP. And a happy, happy birthday. You’re a trifle younger than my dad, who was born at the other end of the same year, but you’re far ruder than he is, and of that you should be proud. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/18 "2007-12-20T13:15:54Z")
Happy Birthday, **chowder!!!** And, thanks for the story. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/19 "2007-12-20T13:18:04Z")
Happy Birthday, Chowder! ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688/20 "2007-12-20T13:42:21Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Out of curiosity, do you have any memories of the war? (And how’d you drive out the Nazis before you were 5?) [/QUOTE] Memories of the war? You must be kidding good sir. What I do remember is collecting chunks of shrapnel/bomb casings from bombed sites after the war. There was this one huge house that had suffered an almost direct hit. The upper floors had collapsed into the basement and whilst searching for bits of bombs we found the skeleton of some poor souls arm and hand with a gents watch still on it and a wedding ring. Screaming like banshees and shitting ourselves we scarpered off to the police station to report this grisly find. I kept the beastly hun at bay simply by wafting my poo soiled nappies at them, jebus did they run [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/66-years-ago/430688.md?page=2)