Am I un PC?

[Harty]

Just walked into Broadwater to do the banking for work and was accosted by a couple of German students who asked if they could ask me about half a dozen questions.
First four were all the usual ever been to Germany, who is the head of state, favourite food and drink, then came question 5, can you name a famous German?

Like him or not who is the most famous German of all time?

My reply of Adolf Hitler was met with silence and a one particular box being ticked.

Having thought about it I could have said Gerd Muller or Boris Becker, but like with all good quiz shows you have to go with your first answer.

I wonder what snap answer the great and the good of NSC would have given my european friends?

 

[steward 433]

Josef Mengele

That would have gone down even worse

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Owen Hargreaves.

 

[Robot Chicken]

Hitler was Austrian though

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

Dirk Lehmann

 

[Easy 10]

It all would have been fine Harty, until you started doing this

 

[sten_super]

I would have thought that the strange look was because Hitler was Austrian!

 

[REDLAND]

Mr Ferdinand Porsche .

 

[Hiney]

Did you actually MENTION the War?

 

[magoo]

I would have said Hitler too, he is probably the most famous German after all. Born in Austria maybe but we all know him as German.

 

[Scoffers]

I'd have said Prince Phillip !!

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(Well Prince Philip is a member of the Danish-German House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg !!!)

 

[Tooting Gull]

Nena.

Neun and neunzig Luftballon.

 

[Simster]

Owen Hargreaves.

Actually Harty, I don't think you're out of order there. Hitler is surely the most famous German of modern times. Or was he Austrian? Come to think of it, I might have just said Rudi Voeller to be on the safe side, as he is part responsible for arguably the funniest handbags ever seen on the football field, when Frank Rijkaard wound him up all game, gobbed in his hair and then got him sent off.

Here it is in all its glory.

Act 1: Rijkaard gobs at Voeller for being a cheating diver. Voeller consequently gets carded but complains to the ref at the gob in his hair
Act 2: Voeller goes in on the keeper. Rijkaard makes a fuss and the ref sends off Voeller for a second yellow offence.
Act 2b: Rijkaard gobs in Voeller's hair as he's leaving the pitch.

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[Beach Hut]

I would have said Her Majesty the Queen

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Harty, why didn't you ask them on to the phone-in ?

Get them to answer half a dozen questions about The Albion then laugh in their faces as their ruthless efficiency falls flat on its face.

(Sorry MoH, no offence like)

 

[Gully]

If on the other hand you had been asking the questions, of a German about the UK, I reckon a fair few would have had said Winston Churchill...so, whilst not being in any way representative of modern Germans or their country, there is no denying that the Austrian known to us all as Adolf Hitler is probably the most famous German of all time.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

I might have said the Queen or, slightly more seriously, Albert Einstein.

Harty, what about a 'Your most famous German' slot on the phone in?

 

[Franks Wild Years]

'Your most famous German' slot

 

[Lankyseagull]

Did they apologise for the conduct of their country during the war?

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

When they stopped you with their clipboard you should have shouted "PAPERS" whilst thrusting your hand at them.

Just building bridges.