Dambusters Dog Nigger Renamed Digger: Stephen Fry Casts ‘Paki’ The Terrier In Lead Role
NIGGER, Guy Gibson’s black Labrador, has been renamed Digger for the new film version of the DamBusters raid of WW2.
Digger is, of course, a derogatory name for Australians who pick their noses and bums.
There has been much uproar, not helped by the intolerant Twitter King Stephen Fry saying there is “no question in America that you could ever have a dog called the N-word“.
Last time we looked the Dambusters was set in England and over bits of Holland and Germany.
Also changed are the Germans, who are known as Sprouts. The Sprouts refer to Jews as “Finchley Road Entrepreneurs”, gypsies as “travellers” and anyone else they systematically slaughter as “collateral damage”.
Note: Nigger the dog was killed in a car accident on the morning of the Dambusters raid on 16 May 1943. He is buried at RAF Scampton, Lincs. In keeping with the current climate, we urge any right-thinking man or woman to change the headstone with a large felt tip. Nigger was a good dog, and it’s what he would have wanted…
Note 2: Nigger will be played by Yorkshire Terrier called “Paki“.
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In the cockpit of the last operational Lancaster at RAF Scampton are five survivors (from left) George Chalmers (wireless operator), Ivan Whittaker (engineer), Jack Buckley (gunner), Bill Howarth (gunner) and Bill Townsend (pilot) of the Dambusters raid on the industrial heart of Germany. *02/04/04: A collection of the medals won by Ivan Whittaker have gone on display ahead of their auction later this month. During the Second World War he twice received a Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) - the only flight engineer in the RAF to receive two such honours. 30/04/2004: A Distinguished Flying Cross awarded to Dam Buster Ivan Whittaker who retired from the RAF as a group captain in 1974, but died five years later and remains the only flight engineer to be twice awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. His first award, received in November 1943, was for taking part in daring and hazardous operations - including the attack on dams along the Ruhr. He received a second a year later after landing a plane with badly wounded legs following a raid over France.
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