World war II

From Wittypedia

World war II was originally going to be called 'World War One - part 2' but this was deemed too confusing and so a comitee was formed to decide on a name. It included all of the political leaders of the day as well as the mandatory celebrity judges of Charlie Chaplin and Rod Hull.

After several suggestions including; The Next World War, The War Which Involves a Lot of Countries But Not All and Therefor Should Not Be Called a World War as it's a Bit Misleading (or WWILCBNATSNBCWWM) and The World War and Emu!! it was finally decided that World War II would have to do (it wasn't until much later that the phrase the second world war began to be used too).

That settled they could now get on to the serious business of fighting but, by this point, everyone had forgotten what all the fuss was about so Hitler decided to invade a couple of countries just to jog peoples memories.

Attempts were made by the British leader, Neville Chamberlain, to appease Hitler, with Liverpudlians specially air-lifted in to ask him to 'calm down' but to no avail. So, on some date in 1939 which I forget, the first bullet was fired in anger. Had it killed it's intended target of Hitler then maybe the whole thing could have been avoided, but the naming comittee were set on the idea of a sequel so the marksman was payed to miss.

He did however accidentally kill a British carrier pigeon - a brave servant of the Empire whose memorial is in trafalgar square and is visited daily by thousands upon thousands of his relatives.

These events caused Chamberlain to be replaced by Winston Churchill who turned out to be the perfect leader for the time despite the fact he only got into power because he had a rather nice hat that the voters thought made him look dapper.

There followed many years of bloody battles and atrocities, but also cool things like spitfires and plot lines for films such as 'the great escape' - so, many historians and cinema goers have concluded that it wasn't all bad.

It finally ended on the *cough* of *cough* 19 *coughty* *cough*, and everyone agreed it was about bloody time too.

Preproduction has already begun on the sequel (provisionally titled 'World War II - part 2 - the search for spock).