Hey everyone: tomorrow is the Dodranscentennial of the
Hindenburg disaster! That’s the Diamond Jubilee of this tragic disaster, and so
we should all commemorate this occasion by exploding a diamond replica of the Hindenburg
airship filled with candy. It’s the least we could do! (Hey, we’re spending
the country into bankruptcy anyway, so why not just throw this expense on too:
what’s the difference? And hey: it could create a lot of jobs! Plus, it’s perfect for adults and kids alike: the kids can grab up the candy, and the adults can grab up all the diamonds!)
This is odd, because just 3 short weeks ago, it was the
Centenary of the Titanic disaster (!). So two major disaster anniversaries (and both jubilees, I might add!) in a year with the most Friday the 13ths possible for one year to have! Wow,
it must be the end of the world this year or something, huh?
It’s strange, I haven’t heard anyone suggest that this year
might be an end-of-the-world-style apocalypse, so it’s definitely a big
surprise to me that all this stuff appears to show all the stars aligning, as
it were, for this kind of occurrence! Oh, no, wait: yes, I believe I may have
heard something about that form someone once after all, although I can’t
remember who it might have been. Oh, no, wait: I think it was everyone on TV and stuff, and also the ancient Maya (although I’m
not so sure they said it, so much as those words have been placed in their
mouths posthumously by the tin-foil-hat conspiracy crowd).
But that “stars aligning” comment I coincidentally made is
perhaps more prescient than I had originally thought, as this whole
end-of-the-world hysteria from the Mayan calendar stuff comes from the fact
that the Earth is aligning with some star thingy or something, and so alignment
with stars is very appropriate as a comment to make about this whole 2012 end-times
hysteria. And of course, it’s what’s going to kill us all: this stars-aligning
thing. So shame on those aligning stars! I knew they were just being jerks by
aligning!
Oh, and of course this event’s anniversary should be widely
celebrated because it is the event which brought the classic phrase: “Oh, the
humanity!” into our cultural lexicon! And there’s just no other phrase to
overuse in social commentary like: “Oh, the humanity!” Just imagine a world
wherein we had not this marvelous phrase to use! It would be a bleak and
unlivable existence, indeed! Oh, the humanity; to coin a phrase!
Here’s the Wikipedia page for the Hindenburg disaster, in
the off-chance that you are somehow unfamiliar with it, and George C. Scott’s
role in the whole affair:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster
And here’s a news article about the Hindenburg, where the link spells it wrong, and on its diamond jubilee anniversary, too: oh, for shame! (The article gets it right, though: yay!):
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/the_hindenberg_75_years_later.html
And here’s a news article about the Hindenburg, where the link spells it wrong, and on its diamond jubilee anniversary, too: oh, for shame! (The article gets it right, though: yay!):
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/the_hindenberg_75_years_later.html
