Hunger Games and The Battle of the Bulge

dmpizza
dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
Like many people, an entire generation of my family fought in World War 2. One of my uncles fought against the Nazis as an American GI, in Patton's 3rd Army in what became known as the "The Battle of the Bulge", because the mapped Allied forces "bulged" into the Axis forces.

Then in the 1970s some tool of a newspaper editor or TV newswriter started to call every diet that came along a way to fight "The Battle of the Bulge", FOREVER cheapening the name of one the greatest fights for freedom the world has ever seen.

Now we have a new movie "The Hunger Games" based on a series of books I haven't read, but my kid loved all of the books in that series and he barely reads anything! So lets assume its really good and give it respect.

So what I am getting at is;

Please don't start calling your struggle "Hunger Games" and please stop using "Battling the Bulge" or anything like that.

Thanks for listening.

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  • jewol
    jewol Posts: 74 Member
    I like "Stay Hungry," the title of the Jeff Bridges/Schwarzenegger film from '76. The punning title is both descriptive and prescriptive -- prescribing that I should keep striving for my weight loss goal ... and describing how my body feels. :)
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    I like "Stay Hungry," the title of the Jeff Bridges/Schwarzenegger film from '76. The punning title is both descriptive and prescriptive -- prescribing that I should keep striving for my weight loss goal ... and describing how my body feels. :)

    Thanks, good quote
  • garlic7girl
    garlic7girl Posts: 2,236 Member
    Thank you fro teaching us the younger generations or those of us who did not have family in those wars because we need to be educated. Others forget and don't teach us so we can honor and not cheapen our rich history and efforts!
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    Thank you fro teaching us the younger generations or those of us who did not have family in those wars because we need to be educated. Others forget and don't teach us so we can honor and not cheapen our rich history and efforts!

    Oh, yeah, you know they don't teach this is stuff in school anymore.
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