Poland = Star Wars land, take two

[winter]

Today's Mary-of-the-Herbs, but also the Polish Army Day, so there was a grand parade and ceremony, with the President and all that jazz. And a drill demonstration among other things. While the soldiers drilled, which always reminds me of Broadway-style dancing, the marching band played a medley of soldierly songs. First Brigade to Poppies of Monte Cassino to Warsaw Song to- Wait a minute.

The Imperial March. By the Polish Army marching band. During a national fete, on national television.

^_^

In other news, yes, I'm back. My mail program's on the fritz, so mail-answering might be short. And tomorrow I need to go back to work :/

Comments

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

damn, you Polish people are weird :P

[winter]

And proud of it :D

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

Ypou know, I can NEVER remember the name of the king ewho managed to have both Poland and Finaland under his rule... i've even looked up it on Wikipedia onc3e, but never remember...

Oh well, here's to dead kings anyway :D

[winter]

May have well been Sigmund III Vasa. At least he was our Sigmund III... no idea what it was in Swedish terms ^^;;

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

That's it! Not sure what he was in Sweden, either... if I recall correctly, he was Sigmund in outr history books, too...

*makes a post it and sticks it on the wall*

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

He actually got deposed partially for spending all his time on Poland (which frankly mattered to him a lot more than Sweden did) rather than on Sweden and us. Well, that and he was Catholic and really unpopular with the Protestant nobles.

So Duke Charles, a rabid Protestant, took over as King of Sweden.

Of course, Charles then tried to force Klaus Flemming, governor of Finland, to submit to his authority. Flemming wasn't too keen on the idea of committing treason and that caused this huge civil war thingy.

[winter]

Oh, so that's why the Swedes didn't get around to kicking arse in Poland until the next generation. You learn something new every day :)

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

Ah... got to love history. :)

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

The Imperial March. By the Polish Army marching band. During a national fete, on national television.

While I understand that it's a nifty march and the poor fellows must get bored of playing the same things all the time, did NO ONE think of the connotations of having your military march to the bad guys' theme music?

[winter]

It's probably telling that in the SW clubs I've seen in Poland, most people wanted to be Imperials.

Come to think of it, when John Paul II died, there were lots of montages on tv. One of these featured JPII getting out of a plane... to the Imperial March.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

One of these featured JPII getting out of a plane... to the Imperial March.

Uhm, really? Good lord, what is with the people picking the music?

[winter]

Beats me. To our defense, in these days everyone was walking around in a daze. Including the city.

[artaxastra.livejournal.com]

We had the Alliance March as the recessional at our wedding!

[winter]

When I get married, I was thinking of having the Luke-and-Leia theme playing at some point during the ceremony :)

But... ahhh... I think national-TV-marching-band even beats Obi-Wan Kenobi Street.

[amamiyarin.livejournal.com]

That's seriously cool. *___________*

[winter]

I think we giggled for the rest of the newscast after this :D

[sukeban.livejournal.com]

Last time something similar happened in Spain, it was when at the 2003 Davis Cup in Australia they tried to play our national anthem, but insted played the Himno de Riego, which was the anthem of the Second Republic (and nowadays used by people who oppose monarchy).

We all got some laughs at it XD

[sukeban.livejournal.com]

Similar in a "WTF are they playing now" way, of course ^_^;;

[winter]

Fortunately we've stuck with the same anthem for the past 200 years or so, including times when we didn't have a country to go with it, so that's not much of a problem ^^ But accidents happen... and this time just after the Imperial March, they played a medley of melodies from TV series dealing with WWII. I think we got lucky they didn't segue into "Suicide is Painless" ;)

[moustachios.livejournal.com]

You have the coolest army marching band *ever*.

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

Mwah. I wish I lived in Poland now! XD

[shisakura.livejournal.com]

OMG ARE YOU SERIOUS :O Now I wish I actually watched TV ._.;

[winter]

Yep. Only reason I watched it was because I was at my grandparents' and their TV's usually on in the background. We were all "O_o ... XD"

[shisakura.livejournal.com]

But that is SO COOL *_*

[mayoini.livejournal.com]

Isn't she?! :D I even called Beth-san "mommy! *glomp*" once! :D I think she might have a grudge against me for that... But then I took her to sushi-ya~ Hate me, hate me not? Ah, Dillemas! :D *glomps Beth-san* :D

[azarias.livejournal.com]

This is why I love my friends list. Holidays I've never even heard of.

(The Imperial March was the recessional at my high school graduation. Half the class was left wondering why the other half was screaming with 'oh-no-they-didn't' joy.)

[winter]

According to today's newspaper, you might hear of Mary-of-the-Herbs (technically I think it's Mary's Ascension) soon - more and more people are finding the quaint Polish habit of pedestrian pilgrimages to Marial cult sanctuaries attractive. This year at Czestochowa there was security up the wazoo because the deputy commander of US forces in Europe was in one of the pilgrimages...

[mayoini.livejournal.com]

Man, I was so surprised to wake up (at noon) and see my whole family AND MORE downstairs!!! >:O I was wondering if they all quit jobs and I'll have to bear with them or what, but fortunately it was just another holiday I never remember about. :P

[winter]

See, for us corporate drones it's all "yay vacation" and today, comparing horror stories... mine's sunburn from an idiotic morning walk on the beach - for some reason I thought we'd be going west with the sun at our backs, not east with it staring us straight in the face, and so I didn't wear sunscreen ^^;

[razorgirl-au.livejournal.com]

Hi there

I came across your journal via Google's Image search for Gabriel pics. I just wanted to praise you for some very excellent icons. Do you mind if I rave about your icons on my own LJ and perhaps yoink one or two of them?

I'll understand if you don't want a bunch of strangers checking out your icon page.

: )

[winter]

Thanks, and feel free. That's what I made Ikonografia for :)

[razorgirl-au.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! You rock!

: )