The Top Ten Understatements Ever
IN taking on the tabloid press, Max Mosley tells MPs that his father, Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, “overdid it and that stopped people thinking seriously about his ideas“.
That’s was always the problem with Nazis, overdoing it. You kill someone in a van with poison gas, then someone else wants to have a go and before you know it there are entire camps full of people and gas and everyone wants to press the button and be first and have their turn.
Here are Anorak’s Top Ten Understatements Ever
“The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage” - Emperor Hirohito of Japan, discussing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in his first radio broadcast (15 August 1945) *
“There was a momentary kerfuffle” – Simon Scharma on the 100 Years War
“Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress” – Pilot of Kuala Lumpur to Perth leg of British Airways Flight 9 on 24 June 1982, after volcanic ash causes all four engines of the Boeing 747 aircraft to fail
“It’s just a flesh wound” - Black Knight, after having both of his arms cut off, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
“Hamas fails to condemn Eilat bomb that killed three” - The Independent *
“Nadya got real greedy. This woman is nuts” - OctoMum Nadya Suleman’s spokesperson *
“Tom and Jerry no longer talking” - Hannah Barbera
“Victoria Beckham didn’t have seconds” - Daily Mail
“Mohamed Fayed uncertain of events regarding car crash” - Daily Express
“Anthea Turner pleased at being voted celebrity most Britons would like to live next door to” - Press Release
Three that just missed out:
“Young British artist keen to be noticed”
“Football fan late for kick off upset in traffic jam”
“The Very Best of Steps lives up to expectations”
Posted: 11th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
Comments
March 12th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
I quite like your own understatement there Anorak - “that’s always the problem with the Nazis, overdoing it…”
how about Bill Clinton’s ” I did not have sex with that woman…!” - or does that just come under the heading of blatant denial…?
March 11th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Zulus, not many of them and they look quite friendly
March 11th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
RIP Jack Haiken who was at Cable Street and in the Desert doing his bit despite the extra fear they all had at being captured by the Nazis, again unlike Mosley senior or Junior (allegedly, they were just German Army surplus uniforms and one of the girls was fluent in German, as is Max; complete coincidence and no public interest at all there, bravo Justice Eady).