Elephant Buried in Schoolyard (Fargo, ND)

http://www.inforum.com/opinion/columnists/3653015-neighbors-horace-mann-elementary-elephant-myth-lives

Inforum [Fargo, North Dakota]

10 January 2015

Neighbors: Horace Mann Elementary elephant myth lives on

By Bob Lind

The legend of the elephant supposedly buried in the schoolyard of Horace Mann Elementary School, Fargo, lives on. […]

“It seems that back in the late 1890s or early 1900s, […] a circus with more than one elephant came to town.

“One night after the show was over, two of the elephants were apparently caught up in the ‘heat of the moment’ resulting in the male elephant expiring right on the spot.

“Not wanting to pay the cost of transporting the elephant somewhere else for disposal, the circus owners chose to bury him where he fell, and that is how an elephant wound up beneath the grounds of Horace Mann school.” […]

"Neil!" Misunderstood as Order to Kneel (Neil Kinnock variant)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2889558/ANDREW-PIERCE-Uh-oh-Europe-s-three-amigos-teaming-again.html

Daily Mail [UK]

29 December 2014

ANDREW PIERCE: Uh-oh! Europe's three amigos Ken Clarke, Lord Mandelson and Danny Alexander are teaming up to form a new groupurging Britain to remain in EU

By Andrew Pierce for The Mail on Sunday

[…] A group of American tourists was having a pre-Christmas tour of Parliament when former Labour leader Neil Kinnock — now Lord Kinnock of Bedwellty — was seen passing by. A fellow Labour peer spotted him across the lobby and shouted: ‘Neil...Neil!’ to grab his attention. At which point the group of American tourists obligingly got down onto their knees, imagining that they were in the midst of a quaint British political event.

The Grateful Enemy Soldier

https://archive.org/stream/theyllneverquit011882mbp#page/n271/mode/2up

Harvey Klemmer, They’ll Never Quit (New York: Wilfred Funk, 1941), pp. 259-60.

Will the Germans use gas?

I have heard many stories in England which point that way. There is the story of the English nurse and the German pilot. The pilot is supposed to have become very fond of his nurse in the English hospital to which he was taken after being shot down. When it came time for him to be taken away, he is reported to have told the girl:

“You have been very nice to me here. I don’t know how to repay you. The only thing I can do now is to warn you – never go out without your gas mask after September 15.”

It will be noted that this anecdote ties in with the stories of the attempted invasion, which was supposed to have taken place on September 15 [1940]. It is possible, of course, that this pilot was acting under instructions; it is also possible that he wasn’t.