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yorksranter commented on the blog post My Name Is Mullah Akhtar Muhammed Mansour, And I Would Like Some Money
Have you ever read Carl Zuckmayer’s Hauptmann von Köpenick? It’s all about the mean streets of old Berlin before the Great War and a guy (ISTR it’s suggested he’s a Yiddisher) who was short of cash and had no immigration papers, so he borrowed a suit of uniform, took command of a file of soldiers, and staged a little coup at the town hall of his ‘hood.
The real man went to see the play ten years later in Weimar times, Zuckmayer and him went out on the beer. I don’t know what became of him.
You’ll laugh your head off. In the light of this it’s that or crying.
