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Re: How much are Blue soldiers worth?
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 2 May 2000 02:56:40 GMT
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Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> In lugnet.pirates, Frank Filz writes:
> >
> > Xcalabur wrote in message ...
> > > > > ("No disassemble! No disassemble!" -- trivia points
> > > > > if you can give movie reference ;-)
> > >
> > > Sure. Short Circuit, starring the immoratal "Johnny 5."
> >
> >
> > Hey, a slightly obscure movie reference that I got (though I would have
> > struggled to remember the movie title). I watch so few movies, and
> > essentially no TV that I tend to dislike trivia type games. Though if
> > there's enough historical or geographical trivia, I can do well, in fact, in
> > high school one year, we played "Jeopardy" every Friday, and the teacher
> > quickly told me and one other fellow that we had to be on opposite teams
> > (she divided the class into two teams). I constantly amazed her at the stuff
> > I answered, heavily due to our families travels (a cross country trip and a
> > trip to Europe), but also due to my studies of history (especially military
> > history - though the question that the answer was "charge of the light
> > brigade" [the category was "light" and the question was something like "a
> > military action"] was one of those "pull it out of your posterior" answers,
> > since even now I couldn't tell you what the charge was, or what war it was
> > in).
> >
> > Follow-ups to: lugnet.off-topic.fun
> >
> > Frank
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> Crimean war. I'm always quoting from the Charge of the Light Brigade at work
> (great for those Dilbertesque situations).
Only in Western Europe could tactical stupidity be celebrated in heroic song.
The Charge of the Light Brigade is right up there with Magersfontein, Little
Bighorn, and Isandhlwana for the award of "stupid overconfident tactical
manoeuvres." There's a great book on military failure, G. P. Gooch and another
author--called appropriately "Military Misfortunes." It's a good read, if a bit
formulaic in trying to predict failure. There's another, newer book on lost hope
in wartime, but I forget the title. It's got a 1999 pressmark, that's all I
remember.
best
Lindsay
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| (...) in (...) stuff (...) work (...) another (...) bit (...) hope (...) The Charge of the Light Brigade was simple confusion compounded by pompous idiocy - I'm not sure I'd rate it with the others (unless you want to count the entire Crimean War). (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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