08 December 2013

Mamas, Don't Let Your Young Babies Grow Up To Be Dragons

Thanks to Andy Whitman and Cindy Collins for inspiring this!

I met Smaug's parents once just outside Düsseldorf. They were pretty embarrassed about their son. In his Mom's words (recorded on a Grundig reel to reel tape recorder) "We taught that boy better. So destructive, but of course our home was blown up in the war, you know, we barely got all the gold out, and then we had to roast the Nazis because they wanted to take it. About the only thing that dragon got right was his name; he never said 'Smog' even though it was all the rage. And he could make such a nice fire, if only he hadn't run around roasting everyone like some sort of flying volcano. Here, would you like some more Schnapps?"

Of course what she really said was,

"Wir brachten den Jungen besser. So destruktiv, aber natürlich wurde unser Haus in den Krieg geblasen, wissen Sie, wir kaum stand das Gold aus, und dann mussten wir die Nazis zu braten, weil sie wollte, es zu nehmen. Über die einzige, was die Drachen bekam Recht war sein Name, er sagte nie 'Smog', obwohl es der letzte Schrei Und er konnte so ein schönes Feuer zu machen, wenn nur er nicht herumlaufen Rösten jeder wie eine Art fliegende Vulkan.. Hier, möchten Sie noch mehr Schnaps?"

I hope Google translated it into English properly.

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