All Star Wars fans know what inspired George Lucas' imagery in designing the bad guys. This week, that concept seeped into the real world in a strange little episode in London. The German navy corvette Braunschweig was in Britain, not doing its normal stealth operations, but on a training operation. While transiting upriver on the Thames, the crew stood on deck as the ship passed through London, with the most appropriate (or inappropriate) music playing on its loudspeakers. You will easily recognize "The Imperial March" from Star Wars, also called Darth Vader's theme.
A spokesman from the German navy told the BBC that there was no message implied in the song selection, and that the boat's commander has free rein to select the music. This shows that the reputation of Germans having no sense of humor isn't true- they just don't laugh at jokes. However, it would have been funnier if the Braunschweig was traveling under its own power instead of being towed backward upriver. -via Ars Technica
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I believe that WAS the joke, and a good natured one at that.
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