Well, it makes a better story if you say it was about ice cream, and the Gestapo guy's phrasing was hilarious, no question about it. I can just hear him barking it at you.
But it was really about leaving the hotel when you weren't supposed to. The Gestapo guy mentioned the ice cream, I suspect, to suggest that it was a rather frivolous reason for breaking a rule that could potentially get you thrown off the course (as opposed to, say, going to the drugstore to buy some necessary medication that you'd run out of). Whether the rule about not leaving the hotel made sense is the real issue, but if you pretend it was about eating ice cream, that question never gets discussed. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" <geezerfreak@...> wrote: > > The thing about the ice cream caper, is that when I was asked about it by one > of the German TM gestapo (those who were there know exactly what I am > referring to and know "gestapo" is the correct designation) the words used > were: "it has been reported that you have been leaving the hotel to eat coupe > denmarks in town. Is this so?" > > I'll never forget the wording since I laughed so much about it later. Was it > that I walked the 100 yards or so into town or the ice cream? I dunno. That > point wasn't important to me at the time. > > I had been questioned about walking from my hotel to get ice cream. That's > what was so absurd about the thing. > > I missed your story about the beef but I'd love to hear it in full detail. > > Andy Kaufman of course famously sat in the Seelisberg dining hall and with > great flourish and a long holder, lit a cigarette. When I heard that I would > have given anything to be there to see the reactions. Andy had a superb sense > of theater.
