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Re: Pirate minifig question
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lugnet.pirates
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Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:39:59 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Ross McCullough writes:
> In lugnet.pirates, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > > The French could then fight with or against the English, depending on when • you
> > > place them. Then the French, being the "stylish" ones, could wear the fore-
> > > and-aft bicorn, and the English, being the real fighters, could wear it
> > > athwartships.
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> > Ahhhhh, like Nelson....and Napoleon! Stylish English officers went
> > fore-and-aft, dunno about the French.
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> > And as we all know, it was the Irish that were the real fighters anyway. :-P
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> > Bruce
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> Meant to lable the stylish as French, not the French as stylish. Those
> aristocratic "fighters" are a lot of pansies, and don't deserve to deserve to
> be labeled English. Though the Duke of Wellington was an aristocrat...
???
Oh, was that first sentence supposed to mean: Meant to label the stylish
*English* officers as French?
They were traitors? The French were pansies? No pansies are English?
Americans kicked their candy sterncastles anyway. :-)
Bruce
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| (...) fore- (...) Thanks' for all the responses. I think I prefer the fore-aft bicorn, though as someone said they can be hard to come by (I still need one for my Harbor Sentry). I think I'll reman my second BSB as a ship of the English Navy with (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) to (...) rarer (...) you (...) Meant to lable the stylish as French, not the French as stylish. Those aristocratic "fighters" are a lot of pansies, and don't deserve to deserve to be labeled English. Though the Duke of Wellington was an (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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