Von Trapp family pulls out of Freedom 250 concert

[303squadron]

It seems that they’ve seen this movie before:

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good night
I see Nazis they’ve come to give us fright

[tanyev]

1. Ha! Or they've agreed to perform as long as there is a private plane waiting for them close by.

[sop]

2. The Von Trapp family confirmed they'll be singing at the concert but they'll be sneaking out halfway through.

[dalton99a]

3. We will have the greatest concert ever

(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

[GiqueCee]

5. Doesn't this dipshit...

... know how ridiculous he looks in a hat two sizes too big for his pointy little head? And that costume! Dude! Fire your tailor!

[paleotn]

8. That's the thing. They never realize how ridiculous they look.

Dunning Kruger in a different form.

[paleotn]

6. One talentless jackass meets another.

[dalton99a]

7. +1

[twodogsbarking]

4. The hills are alive.

[ImNotGod]

9. I heard even Tippy the dancing dog pulled out

[ChicagoTeamster]

10. They should have a giant screen playing Judgement at Nuremburg

[IronLionZion]

11. It sounds like they prefer Vermont culture to what they fled Europe for back in the day.

[303squadron]

14. Thank you for posting

My very favorite part of the movie.

[hamsterjill]

12. I literally laughed out loud!!!

Thank you so much for the laugh. This is VERY creative. Welcome to DU.

[Warpy]

13. Still fleeing fascists

July 4 should be a joyous celebration of 250 years without a king.

Fatso fucks up everything he touches.

[Igel]

16. Yeah, but that was a song written in the US for a musical in 1959.

Not European folk-anything.

Had the German charge d'affaires at a local "German heritage festival" concert/performance "thing" at my high school years ago and no fewer than 3 school or community groups performed that for him. I was making another attempt at learning German so looked up what the 'original' words where when I saw it on the program. And just thought, "Uh-uh."

The poor guy took the faux Austrian 'nationalist' folk song that would only serve to remind him that Germany was Nazi before he was born in stride and was gracious about it.

(Oh. This area of SE-ish TX was settled by a ton of Germans in the 1880s and 1890s, and a bit west was settled by Moravians and a fair number of "Wends," as the locals call their answers; the term of art these days for the language and ethnicity is "Sorbian" and "Sorb".)