Ah, the backstory! If Grandfather is English, this kills any lingering suspicion as to what he did in the war… (unless he edited the Daily Mail, was a Blackshirt, or a high-ranking Royal of the wrong sort he can’t have been a Nazi, and in ny case he was too young).
But… Teena’s grasp of history is admirable, if slightly out. Her Lithuanian grandmother cannot have escaped to Belgium in 1941 when the Germans invaded, as Belgium had been conquered by the Germans in 1940. If her family had fled when the Russians invaded Lithuania in 1939 (not at the same time as the Germans – that was Poland!) and incorporated an unwilling country into the Soviet Union, that would read better as well as being more historically accurate. This would allow for her family fleeing again from Belgium in 1940 and ending up in England, prior to being shipped to Canada with other refugees and surplus people when the threat of a German invasion was at its strongest.
I wondered about that too! The fulsome TV chef Nigella Lawson is technically Jewish through her father (who was one of Margaret Thatcher’s finance ministers -and we all thought Jews were good with money…) but she is evidently not practicing, as whole chunks of her TV shows and books are taken up with pork and shellfish produce… evidently as good at kosher law as her father was with the nation’s finances… so Stick is evidently not alone in eating traife…
J_Verschueren about 13 years ago
Ehm… windmills are typically Dutch, Stick.
walruscarver2000 about 13 years ago
Our house got teepee’d once. We started to take it off, but grandma said it would help keep our wigwam in the winter. No windmill though.
AgProv about 13 years ago
Ah, the backstory! If Grandfather is English, this kills any lingering suspicion as to what he did in the war… (unless he edited the Daily Mail, was a Blackshirt, or a high-ranking Royal of the wrong sort he can’t have been a Nazi, and in ny case he was too young).
But… Teena’s grasp of history is admirable, if slightly out. Her Lithuanian grandmother cannot have escaped to Belgium in 1941 when the Germans invaded, as Belgium had been conquered by the Germans in 1940. If her family had fled when the Russians invaded Lithuania in 1939 (not at the same time as the Germans – that was Poland!) and incorporated an unwilling country into the Soviet Union, that would read better as well as being more historically accurate. This would allow for her family fleeing again from Belgium in 1940 and ending up in England, prior to being shipped to Canada with other refugees and surplus people when the threat of a German invasion was at its strongest.
as363 about 13 years ago
And we Canadians escaped to the U.S. because..
jajones56 about 13 years ago
For the strip this week…Aciu’ labai!
The Life I Draw Upon about 13 years ago
This is a Jewish girl that eats ham and doesn’t know about the German camps in WWII? DUH!
AgProv about 13 years ago
I wondered about that too! The fulsome TV chef Nigella Lawson is technically Jewish through her father (who was one of Margaret Thatcher’s finance ministers -and we all thought Jews were good with money…) but she is evidently not practicing, as whole chunks of her TV shows and books are taken up with pork and shellfish produce… evidently as good at kosher law as her father was with the nation’s finances… so Stick is evidently not alone in eating traife…