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Eddie Murphy's "Today in Black History" was one of my more favorites, especially the installment about Washington Carver's Peanut Butter patents being stolen by Mr. Skippy and Mr. Jif.
I liked "the first self-serve gas station", where an old white guy pulls up and waits while the black attendant just sits there, and when he finally yells, "Hey, I need some gas" the black guy says "Get it yo' damn self."
In SNL's early years they had a recurring sketch called "What If?" which was panelists discussing alternative scenarios. One of them was "What if Superman's rocket had landed in Nazi Germany rather than the US?"
The result was Uberman who wins the war for them by killing everyone in England. He also scopes out Jews trying to pass themselves off as as Aryan using his x-ray vision on their crotches.
They had one with the two Georgias switching places. All I remember about that sketch was Jimmy Carter having to resign as president as he was now a citizen of the Soviet Union.
They had one with the two Georgias switching places. All I remember about that sketch was Jimmy Carter having to resign as president as he was now a citizen of the Soviet Union.
I believe that you are probably thinking of the Albert Brooks short film "The Impossible Truth" where he had Georgia and Israel switching places.
Quote:
Narrator: In an unprecedented move to ease world tensions, the country of Israel and the state of Georgia have agreed to change places. The entire state of Georgia -- residents, businesses, all forms of commerce -- will relocate in the Middle East on January 1st, 1977. No buildings will be moved. It will be an even property exchange. [Music out.]
Israeli: This is indeed an auspicious occasion of the twentieth century and I hope that New Orleans will be easier to deal with than Cairo. [applause]
Georgian: I know - I know that my entire state is looking forward to heat without humidity. [applause]
Also you wrote executed in the header. There is generally a different usage intent between killed and executed. What would Ford be executed for?
Treason?
It might be a reference to Henry Ford's love affair with fascism and distribution of antisemitic magazines through Ford dealerships and other places ( Ford "recommended" that the dealerships carry a far right / antisemitic magazine that he indirectly published) during the 1930s and 1940s.
In either case, Ford's fascist fantasies was far more "WASP superiority" mixed with some nasty antisemitic comments than dogmatic NAZI stuff. There were no gas chambers for Ford's various "undesirables" just immigration quotas, segregation, and Jim Crow type policies.
Ford's views were rather common amongst US tycoons at the time. Getty was accused of maintaining contacts with a variety of far right rabble rousers during the 1930s. Both Ford and Getty were also smart enough to stop making "Hitler's got some good ideas, he just gets carried away... ." type comments when war came. In the end, Ford's views did not come anywhere near treason, so he was not facing anymore severe punishment besides being labeled an all too common jerk.
Killed before he produced his first Ford car and Ford plant. Would Mercedes-Benz be today's low cost economy car instead if the company known as FORD never existed in time.
I have a better one!
What if somehow, fantastically, overnight across the world, pink transformed into gray?
Would it lead to unforeseen developments like the Cubs winning the World Series?
It might be a reference to Henry Ford's love affair with fascism and distribution of antisemitic magazines through Ford dealerships and other places ( Ford "recommended" that the dealerships carry a far right / antisemitic magazine that he indirectly published) during the 1930s and 1940s.
In either case, Ford's fascist fantasies was far more "WASP superiority" mixed with some nasty antisemitic comments than dogmatic NAZI stuff. There were no gas chambers for Ford's various "undesirables" just immigration quotas, segregation, and Jim Crow type policies.
Ford's views were rather common amongst US tycoons at the time. Getty was accused of maintaining contacts with a variety of far right rabble rousers during the 1930s. Both Ford and Getty were also smart enough to stop making "Hitler's got some good ideas, he just gets carried away... ." type comments when war came. In the end, Ford's views did not come anywhere near treason, so he was not facing anymore severe punishment besides being labeled an all too common jerk.
Ford sold equipment to and helped arm the Axis during WW2, which is certainly a felony. Racist beliefs are one thing, but helping equip militaries that are fighting the US is another. The current equivalent would roughly be if a major US corporation was helping to equip ISIS.
ford's greatest invention wasn't the car. It was using assembly line to create products.
as a side note, the idea of an assembly line is a basic component of the CPU. if no one had come up with that idea, we wouldn't have the fast computers we have today.
Ford sold equipment to and helped arm the Axis during WW2, which is certainly a felony. Racist beliefs are one thing, but helping equip militaries that are fighting the US is another. The current equivalent would roughly be if a major US corporation was helping to equip ISIS.
Only if he helped the Nazis after December 07, 1941. Before the formal declaration of war against Nazi Germany, Ford would just be another all too common rascist with the added spin of professing admiration for "Teutonic orderliness".
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What if Henry Ford was executed?
