Wurst thread of the day...

[AndyJWest]

...or why the sausage-eaters had to go without during WWI: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/aug/23/wurst-zeppelins-german-sausage :)

[Wolferz]

...or why the sausage-eaters had to go without during WWI: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/aug/23/wurst-zeppelins-german-sausage :)

GCHQ will be by shortly to grind up more hard drives.

[Platapus]

Pretty cool history :yeah:

Raw materials for war production has to come from somewhere. I never thought about the cow-Zeppelin connection, but it makes sense.

I don't know why I never associated cow guts with gas. :D

[Aktungbby]

Ach:'' Gold-beater skin hoarding is a 'Firing' offense!" DR. Hunt is inaccurate however that 1917 was the year of Zeppelin downing enlightenment. Lt Warneford downed his Zeppelin over Ghent in 1915 and Lt Leefe-Robinson downed his over London in 1916; both Indian born officers received the Victoria Cross to great media acclaim. The former, in the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, and the second, in the Ashcroft VC Collection, now at the Imperial War Museum. The poor Huns were forced to rely on helium>> as <<hydrogen (OOPS) was unobtainable(as with the later Hindenburg) and when afflicted with Vickers or Lewis .303 tracer ammo, tended to go up like a 'ronson', descending in a great fireball to bells ringing, as in the case of Leefe-Robinson over London.:arrgh!:

[Sailor Steve]

The poor Huns were forced to rely on helium as hydrogen was unobtainable(as with the later Hindenburg)...
That be on the backward side of things. Helium was available only in the United States, and the Jerries, Brits and everybody else had to use hydrogen.

[Aktungbby]

Thanks, Sorry I got my 'H' s reversed and I suck at chemistry. will reedit and go back to my corner. Got the VC thing right though thanks to Jimbuna"s thread. Added a few commas as well; my old English 6th form master was a stickler! :arrgh!:

[Sailor Steve]

WW1 headline: Germany Has Gone To The Dogs!

[Wolferz]

The Kaisers' air force had guts.:haha:

[Schroeder]

Actually Wurst is not pronounced like the English worst but more like "woorst".:know:

[Wolferz]

Actually Wurst is not pronounced like the English worst but more like "woorst".:know:
The U needs an oomlaught.
Is a weiner still a weener, Schnitzel:06:

[Schroeder]

The U needs an oomlaught.
Is a weiner still a weener, Schnitzel:06:
Weiner? You mean Wiener and yes that's a "weener" (the city is called Wien).;)
And no, an Umlaut (I think you mean "ü" in this case) would make it sound like...er...like....uhm.....I think you don't have that sound in your language so I can't provide an example....:doh:

[Jimbuna]

So who was it that said those Zeppelin drivers had no guts :hmm2:

[Pisces]

...

And no, an Umlaut (I think you mean "ü" in this case) would make it sound like...er...like....uhm.....I think you don't have that sound in your language so I can't provide an example....:doh:"zoom"
..., well maybe of shorter duration.

[Schroeder]

"zoom"
Nope. Zoom would be like a German u but not a ü.;)

[Catfish]

Wurst comes to worst .. :oops: sry

You needed some guts to join the Zeppelin branch for sure, just saying .. with or without sausages.
Just was in F'fhafen in the archives to find out some info about a relative of our family, who belonged to the crew of naval airship L59.
http://fly.historicwings.com/2012/11/das-afrika-schiff/
Guts does not define it properly, but on the other hand you were killed as a 16-year old with almost no education, in the trenches. So if you had the chance to escape that ..

Thanks and greetings,
Catfish

[Aktungbby]

So who was it that said those Zeppelin drivers had no guts :hmm2:
Actually one did. As Warneford's Zeppelin fell burning over a convent, killing a nun on the ground, one Zep's crewmember leaped for his life at two hundred feet, crashed thru the roof of a dorm and landed IN A BED and walked away unscathed...trust the force Fritz! With 970,000 cubic feet of hydrogen gas, I would wonder where they found men to fly those ships.:arrgh!: