# Ask That Hindenburg Announcer Guy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2000, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560 "2000-06-26T10:03:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zarathustra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/898d66/32.png) [@Zarathustra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zarathustra)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/1 "2000-06-26T10:03:22Z")
Go on, ask! ---
**Author:** ![eggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@eggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eggo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/2 "2000-06-26T10:05:25Z")
ok, i’ll bite. “what about the hindenburg announcer guy?” ---
**Author:** ![Zarathustra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/898d66/32.png) [@Zarathustra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zarathustra)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/3 "2000-06-26T10:07:00Z")
Dear eggo, Oh my God–it’s burst into flames! Oh, the humanity! The burning airship is tumbling toward the crowd! The exploding hydrogen gas is engulfing the onlookers! The screams, oh Lord, the screams! Burning figures are falling from the twisted gondola! I can hear the shrieking of men trapped beneath the blazing metal! Please, sweet Christ, no! ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/4 "2000-06-26T10:43:06Z")
Dear Hindenburgh announcer guy, Are you hung? ---
**Author:** ![Zarathustra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/898d66/32.png) [@Zarathustra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zarathustra)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/5 "2000-06-26T10:47:30Z")
Dear zuma, Flames a thousand feet high are engulfing men, women, children–oh, Lord, no! No! Not the children! The sizzling, oh God, the sizzling. Flames have seared the entire crowd! The smell of burned and melting flesh, God, God! An abomination of science gone awry has brought Hell to our fairgrounds! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/6 "2000-06-26T12:06:57Z")
Hello Hindenburg Announcer Guy. Didn’t you really mean “The **in** humanity” ??? ---
**Author:** ![Myndephuquer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@Myndephuquer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myndephuquer)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/7 "2000-06-26T13:28:20Z")
Dear Hindenburgh Announcer Guy, Would you please run your sorry butt under the 'Burg and try to catch it? Tw…uh…'T’would be a nice thing to do. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/8 "2000-06-26T13:53:06Z")
Dear Hindenburg Announcer Guy– How do you feel about a person who re-uses [a comedy bit](http://www.theonion.com/onion3209/hindenbergguy.html) that originally appeared in a nationally known satirical newspaper? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/9 "2000-06-26T14:15:14Z")
denbo, welcome aboard. Immediately, you have shown that you are just the sort of person we need around here! Good spotting. Of course, I always knew that Zaratustra’s humour was lame. ---
**Author:** ![JimmyNipples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/10 "2000-06-26T14:19:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Dear Hindenburg Announcer Guy– > > How do you feel about a person who re-uses [a comedy bit](http://www.theonion.com/onion3209/hindenbergguy.html) that originally appeared in a nationally known satirical newspaper? > \*\* Good bit of detective work there Denbo. I read the Onion too. ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/11 "2000-06-26T14:27:30Z")
Thanks for the welcome, Coldfire. Glad to be meet ya. ---
**Author:** ![seriousart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/12 "2000-06-26T15:05:01Z")
I just knew it was too funny to be from a sock puppet. Now if there had just been a link to the onion in the first place, that would have been fine, but… What do you expect? ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/13 "2000-06-26T15:55:41Z")
That’s odd. Does anyone else smell concrete? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/14 "2000-06-26T16:01:08Z")
Well, obviously, we have such a PROFOUND need for these hilarious “Ask the…” threads that it has now become necessary to plagarize. A tip of the hat to **Z** for observing a requirement and filling it. ---
**Author:** ![Altair\_8800](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Altair\_8800](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Altair_8800)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/15 "2000-06-26T18:09:00Z")
GuanoLad– Yes, he meant to say ‘humanity.’ That was the word used by the actual radio announcer in 1937. ---
**Author:** ![Altair\_8800](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Altair\_8800](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Altair_8800)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/16 "2000-06-26T18:10:43Z")
GuanoLad– Yes, he meant to say ‘humanity.’ That was the word used by the actual radio announcer in 1937. ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/17 "2000-06-26T18:18:57Z")
Dear Hindenburg Announcer Guy. My girlfriend is starting to drop subtle hints that she wants to get married. I don’t think we’re really at the right stage in our relationship for that serious of a commitment. What do you think? ---
**Author:** ![Zarathustra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/898d66/32.png) [@Zarathustra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zarathustra)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/18 "2000-06-27T00:53:30Z")
Dear Inky, Two points to denbo for spotting blatant Onion plagiarism. I’ll sign off with my favorite from bit from [that column:](http://www.theonion.com/onion3209/hindenbergguy.html) The roar of flaming gas can’t drown out the tortured cries of the roasted! The scarlet mist of scalded blood fills the air! I can’t bear the sight of this seared and blasted fairground–everywhere I look is misery! A baby trapped by the airship’s hull fries in its own juices! A roustabout’s eyes boil, burst, and run down his cheeks! Oh, the humanity! How can a just God allow such horror to be? Zarathustra ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/19 "2000-06-27T01:01:09Z")
Think what you meant to say was: “Yes, he meant to say _inhumanity_.” If I recall correctly, he did say “humanity”, which doesn’t make much sense. Not so sure about the “sweet Christ” quoted above, though.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560/20 "2000-06-27T03:22:21Z")
Ah, how many people were actually killed in the Hindenburg? Wasn’t it a rather small number considering a few million cubic feet of Hydrogen going off? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-that-hindenburg-announcer-guy/23560.md?page=2)