M Like…

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{ A giant M installed to greet Mussolini’s arrival in a small Piemonte village (Italy, 1938) | photo: Farabola/LEEMAGE }






23 Responses to “M Like…”

  1. Anonymous Says:

    what is that guy doing there … ? (top right most)

  2. Naser Says:

    Yeah, seriously what the F is that guy on the top right corner doing? Taking a dump/ Trying to take a dump on Mussolini?

  3. Ray Says:

    7 years later the bodies of Mussolini and his mistress were hung upside down on meat hooks in Piazzale Loreto (Milan), along with those of other fascists, to show the population the dictator was dead.

    http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-leaders/ww2/mussolini.htm

  4. steph* Says:

    This is fascinating…..and disgusting at the same time.

  5. Desaparecido Says:

    Hey! I know what we can do! We can find out where this giant “M” is located Italy, and bring it to Crawford, Texas.

    Then we can turn it upside down so instead of representing an “M” for Mussolini, it would stand for “W” for to stand George W. Bush. I think old dubya would like it.

  6. Jeriatri Says:

    Only if KBR/Halliburton is in charge of the construction. We all want it to be done ‘right’.

  7. Chad Says:

    Man, the very center of than M looks so unstable.

    No way am I stading there…or even driving under that thing!

  8. Andrew Says:

    relax chad, it will be more stable as a W.

  9. me Says:

    The creepiest things are:
    - How in hell did the children got up there.
    - WTF were they thinking, the children could falld own easily! There’s hardly any space!
    - This plainly shows how retarded regimes like this are…Stupid nazis…

  10. Anatomic Bomb Says:

    The kids probably used a ladder that was removed and the put back when they climbed down, also it looks like there is plenty of room to stand, so it doesn’t seem that dangerous, are u the kind of parent that bubble wraps their kids? also they weren’t nazis. Im sure you can look and plenty of stupid things americans have done or any peoples in the world. Your comment is an insult to retarded people all over the world.

  11. Ryan Says:

    Looks to me like the fellow in the top right is holding a camera. If you look close, it looks like there is a lens (and opening) pointed down and to his left leg, as if poised to get ready to take a photo.(This is speculation however…)

    R

  12. yo Says:

    I think it would be better suited turned around so all the little kids are hidden from view. Then, as he drives beneath, the little kids pump him full of lead. Would probably work as a W as well.

  13. Mike A Says:

    Maybe the guy in the upper right is waiting for just the right moment to say BOO and see if anyone jumps. If the kids were to pee, the water would run down to the center of the M and fall off. Did Mussolini ride in a convertible?

  14. boethius Says:

    My first though is how easy it would have been to take a shot at Musso from up there. Pop! And no more fascist for you! Too bad they didn’t know much about training super secret juvenile ninja assassins like we do now.

  15. rbelkin Says:

    The guy on the right looks like the spotter for the motorcade - he’s probably the band leader - on the other side is a marching band staggered all over on the reverse side of the M ready to play the appropriate “Come Gather ‘Round, Here Comes El Duce!” (okay, I have no idea what they would’ve played).

    If the M survived, they could’ve whipped it back out for Montgomery and later for Marshall … I guess Madonna would get that honor now or for Fashion Week, Kate Moss (please add your own snow jokes).

  16. Mr. Spooge Says:

    Oh, you flaming Liberals are so funny! Turn it upside down, it’ll be more stable.

    You’re correct - it will be more stable - than you knuckleheads.

    Calling Bush a fascist is not only inaccurate, it shows you really don’t understand what Fascism is, nor what is happening in the world. Just because you can click on MoveOn.org doesn’t make you a political expert - it makes you a lemming.

    One of the great travesties of modern times is that younger people, educated in government schools, are “dumbed down” and don’t understand what it means to fight Fascism and Nazis and Totalilarianism. The concept of the 100,000,000+ deaths caused by those movements doesn’t have any meaning to them.

    If you want to dislike Bush, do it because he’s expanding government to intrusive levels, and decreasing personal responsibility. Don’t just parrot the latest sound-byte from a website.

  17. ace Says:

    It is amazing how people can make lite of such a serious matter.
    It is your job to make sure that the past does not repeat itself.

  18. Bogdan Says:

    hey that’s me third from the left. We had a great day that day, we got to eat pie

  19. Kace Says:

    a big difference between Bush and Mussolini is that when Bush’s term is up he will leave the White House. Mussolini had to be shot and hung on hooks like salami.

    Another difference is that if Bush was Mussolini, he would arrest and excute all the people who made negative comments on this page.

    Be thankful to democracy. Even if Bush ruined the image of the USA for several decades, today in USA isn’t Italy in 38.

  20. Ronald Says:

    I really prefer the new yellow one macdonalds go with now.

  21. Victor Says:

    He is the teacher of the pupils…. who wants also to be immortalized in this picture, obviously. ;)) lol

  22. lol Says:

    how could be like ‘38?
    70 years have passed…
    but USA is still one of the main cancers of the Earth.

  23. PhotoperiodEffect dotcom Says:

    I’ll add it to my list of “Fascist Fonts.”

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