Vietnam Vet Spat Upon (Family Guy Episode)

“Family Guy through the Years.” Family Guy, season 16, episode 16, Fox Broadcasting Company, 22 April 2018. In a story that takes place in 1973, Peter Griffin announces to his family that his friend Quagmire is coming home from Vietnam. “His tour just ended and his transport should be getting in soon. So let’s head down to the airfield and give our soldiers the respect they deserve.” At the airfield, Peter greets his friend. “Welcome home, Quagmire!” he says, and spits on his face. Peter’s wife says, “Good to see you back safely, Glenn.” Then she, too, spits on him. The Griffins’ dog shouts “Murderer!” and Peter scolds him. “Show some respect.” “Sorry,” says the dog, who dutifully spits on the soldier.

U-Boat Rumoured to Have Helped Nazis Escape to Argentina is Discovered

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hitler-nazis-u-boat-escape-argentina-u3523-found-wreck-denmark-south-america-mengele-eichmann-a8312581.html

The Independent [UK]

19 April 2018

U-Boat rumoured to have helped Nazis escape to Argentina is discovered

A submarine linked to rumours that Adolf Hitler survived and escaped to Argentina in a U-boat has been discovered – lying wrecked at the bottom of the North Sea between Denmark and Norway.

Submarine U-3523 had been one of a new generation of type XXI U-boats that were able to run more silently and stay submerged for longer than any of their predecessors, with a range that would have allowed them to sail non-stop from Europe to South America.

As such it would have been perfect escape vessel for Nazi gold, high-ranking officials or even Hitler himself as the Reich collapsed at the end of the Second World War. […]

Distracted Mother Cuts up Food of Adult Dinner Companion

Phillip Brown & Hugh Lauder, Capitalism and Social Progress (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 51. “It was in the midst of a particularly witty piece of conversation that she suddenly realized that she had just leant across and cut her companion’s dinner up into small pieces.” [I can’t access the footnoted reference, but I assume it is Jan Pahl and Raymond Pahl, Managers and Their Wives: A Study of Career and Family Relationships in the Middle Class (London: Allen Lane, 1971).]