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Started by Syt, March 16, 2009, 01:52:42 AM

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Zanza

Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 01, 2017, 08:00:48 PM
At least the sad state of British military aircraft will take your mind off the sad state of the Royal Navy.
Maybe it is time for Hochseeflotte Part II? :shifty:

Ed Anger

Quote from: grumbler on June 01, 2017, 08:47:17 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 31, 2017, 07:32:59 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 30, 2017, 11:50:00 PM
If you need Ed he's gotta make a call, he'll be back at battalion.

I'm shipping a yacht to Paris.

Somebody's been watching Kelly's Heroes again.

Guilty!  :)
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Eddie Teach

Quote from: garbon on June 02, 2017, 05:38:18 AM
Who knew everyone was so hideous?

Remember what Seinfeld said: only 5% of people are attractive. The rest are UNDATEABLE!
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

garbon

Quote from: Eddie Teach on June 02, 2017, 09:45:40 AM
Quote from: garbon on June 02, 2017, 05:38:18 AM
Who knew everyone was so hideous?

Remember what Seinfeld said: only 5% of people are attractive. The rest are UNDATEABLE!

Why would I remember anything that Seinfeld said? :huh:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Grey Fox

Quote from: garbon on June 02, 2017, 09:52:13 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on June 02, 2017, 09:45:40 AM
Quote from: garbon on June 02, 2017, 05:38:18 AM
Who knew everyone was so hideous?

Remember what Seinfeld said: only 5% of people are attractive. The rest are UNDATEABLE!

Why would I remember anything that Seinfeld said? :huh:

Because he's one of the most insightful person of the 20th century?
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

garbon

Quote from: Grey Fox on June 02, 2017, 09:56:13 AM
Quote from: garbon on June 02, 2017, 09:52:13 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on June 02, 2017, 09:45:40 AM
Quote from: garbon on June 02, 2017, 05:38:18 AM
Who knew everyone was so hideous?

Remember what Seinfeld said: only 5% of people are attractive. The rest are UNDATEABLE!

Why would I remember anything that Seinfeld said? :huh:

Because he's one of the most insightful person of the 20th century?

:mellow:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Grey Fox

You should acquaint yourself with the work of the great Jerry Seinfeld. Your life will be better for it.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Eddie Teach

Quote from: garbon on June 02, 2017, 09:52:13 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on June 02, 2017, 09:45:40 AM
Quote from: garbon on June 02, 2017, 05:38:18 AM
Who knew everyone was so hideous?

Remember what Seinfeld said: only 5% of people are attractive. The rest are UNDATEABLE!

Why would I remember anything that Seinfeld said? :huh:

Beats the hell out of Sex and the City.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

11B4V

Reading a book on the Gran Sasso raid
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

AnchorClanker

Anna Édes by Dezső Kosztolányi -

I enjoy literature from the 20s and 30s, and this Hungarian novel picks up right at the fall of the Bela Kun regime... and it's the story of an urban, middle-class family and their new maid.

Fascinating read, actually.  Pick up a used copy, if you can.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.  - Reinhold Niebuhr

The Brain

Just finished Ruoff's Imperial Japan at its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire's 2,600th Anniversary. It's pretty good if you're interested in 20th century Japan and what the Empire was like.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Ed Anger

Got a bunch of books today:

Patricians and Emperors
Aetius
A book about Valentinan and Valens

I'm on a fall of the Western Empire kick.

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Ed Anger on June 22, 2017, 07:39:01 PM
I'm on a fall of the Western Empire kick.

Trying to tell us something?

Ed Anger

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

mongers

Is Glantz's 'Kharkov' 1942 worth an isolated read, or does it work best when read with some of his other works?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"