"I was in the wrong place at the wrong time / for the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme"

[larryhammer]

Ladies and gentlemen, it's a WWI German soldier wearing a nightshirt, standing in front of a latrine, with a cat on his helmet. (via)

Lolcat caption is left as an exercise for reader.

---L.

Comments

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Wow.

[larryhammer]

Which, the soldier or the cat?

---L.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Both in combination.

...I once wrote about a photo of a soldier (American) with a kitten on his head.

[larryhammer]

Link!

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Unpublished, alas, but I will email you the scene.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

He's holding something that looks suspiciously like a flask, but I am sure that a fine young man like that would have nothing to do with alcohol consumption to excess, no no.

[larryhammer]

I'm sure that's really a bayonet. Though why a dispatch courier (I assume that's why he's wearing a post-horn) would wield one of those in his nightshirt is, of course, another question.

---L.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

In his right hand... his left is on the bayonet...

Could be couriers were armed (not unlikely IMO). His tolerant "OK, get the photo over with" expression hints that this is a hazing (the kitten on his head points to some regimental hi-jinks connection). Also, that kitty has done this before.

One could look for German units with cat mascots/emblems.

[larryhammer]

I was interpreting his expression as more smashed than tolerant.