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my wife has seen it, but it's about in 1914 there was an
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attempt on Christmas Day for people to say ""?a suffit
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largement"; this is just enough of this crap,
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let's sing to each other.
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And the Welsh were singing their ballads, and the Germans were
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singing doleful Lutheran hymns, and the Catholic French were singing
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this and that.
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And then somebody said, "well, let's play some football."
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So, they got soccer players and they're out playing
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and kicking the ball around.
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Then they went back to try to kill each other again.
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In 1915 a British soldier suggested, said, "hey, let's do that again,"