Sunday, April 29, 2012

The Nazis and Legolas

Always suspicious of Legolas, weren't you? C'mon, now, admit it. The flowing blond locks, the Aryan good looks . . . the Nordic Archer Supreme . . . Hitler would have immediately made him a poster boy.

Well, guess what? Legolas turns out to have a very strong connection with the Nazis. As I'm sure you've seen, there's a commercial that for some reason always runs twice in a row -- featuring Orlando Bloom muttering some Brit nonsense and generally acting model-agency-pretty-boyish . . . but guess what he's hawking?

Hugo Boss cologne.

Guess who Hugo Boss was? He was one of the original Nazi party members -- a fervent, anti-semitic Hitler worshipper who designed first the Brownshirts of the S.A,, and then the dreaded black uniforms of the Shutzstaffel: the SS.

Good one, Legolas.

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