Friday, 6 August 2010

6/8/45 / what do think of HIROSHIMA

The dropping of the bomb was considered at the time to be what stopped the war in JAPAN, the boy was called LITTLE BOY which seems to be an unusual thing to call a BOMB but I suppose a little boy does cause widespread destruction , the bomb dropped on Nagasaki was called of all thing FAT MAN although for the life of me I can not think why!




I have always enjoyed the pop song ENOLA GAY by OMD probably becausemy cousins lived in west Kirby were they were bases and currently my auntie lives in one of the band members old homes and believe me it is old , when she first moved in their we were always singing OMD songs!!


I never realised that the somg Enola GAY is about the mother of the pilot of the plane as I used to just enjoy the tune, that is what happens alot with pop lyrics you Just SING along obliviously to what the the word of since learning the real meaning of the song, I find it incedibly eerie!!




Alot of the tim e of the time we dont think about the words BIKINI , yes i know it is a an all in one swimming costume but cut it in half be a bikini, well, any how when people are running about in bikini how many think fo the more sinister , was named after the bikini in the paciffic were the the atomic tests took place!!
Rumours have it this were the swimming costume allin lonw was blown apart!!! I have never been a bikini person as always feel to cold or could because neve venture any where hot!!

When the bikini became fashionable it recieved perhaps as you can imagine an explosive reactionn, as it was not long before this that people were more or less completly covered up!!



We tend to think of a bomb as a device that has not been around to long but as actually been around since 1588 ( told you I was wide awake in history)so not really a new fangled thing of the last century although saying that only used as a word then !! c.onfused ( good ) like cofusing people.


I am hopeless at lanuages but most words we use originate in other landsand a lot of words originate from THE GREEK , i was useless at FRENCH but lets give this a go

BOMB comes from the word BOMBOS which means a humming sound i have never thought what sound a bomb makes but doubt a humming sound as I think of something which is happy hums
In the swinging 6os the word to bomb out came into being as to fail in somthing but lots of uses of the word bomb such as driving a round in one , or wish I had a bomb (Money) dont take all what I say literally.I have never heard of these two expressions as a long pass in football is a bomb or a mass of Lava!!

Oh well I am practically Bombed out and I dont try to think of EINSTEINS quote

"I do not believe that civilisation will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb'.Perhaps two thirds of the people of the earth will be killed>

Hope I have not worried you and everyone sleeps well and think will of brighter thoughts next time

2 comments:

  1. Louise - where do you get all your knowledge from? was this all internet research or stuff you already knew?

    I'm going to look into some networks that you can join, so that more people can find your blog. Also, I still haven't had chance to sort the video out, but will do that this weekend and get it over to you to use if you want.

    Have a good weekend!
    Elaine

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  2. Thanks for your comments - have now found out where it is had to scroll right down to find them.
    Had a great 2 days on the beach with Alex we both got a bit wind burn and look a bit red!!!!!
    He stayed last night as well and goes home later next time he is here will be school hours.

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