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Started by Admiral Yi, July 22, 2009, 03:15:40 PM

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Agelastus

#585
September 16, 2009, 04:37:18 PM
Quote from: garbon on September 16, 2009, 04:35:23 PM
I know. :P

Of course you do, I was just being  :bowler:

:sneaks away:
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Viking

#586
September 16, 2009, 04:52:31 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on September 16, 2009, 04:10:37 PM
Quote from: garbon on September 16, 2009, 04:04:28 PM
Quote from: Viking on September 16, 2009, 03:49:38 PM
What was the belgian guy's name?

That's a very vague question.

I assume he is referring to the current question about King Stephen's Flemish mercenary - which I am ashamed to say I do not know the answer to, although I will guess at Eustace de Warrenne.

I was talking about Tin-Tin.  ;)
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Agelastus

#587
September 16, 2009, 04:56:03 PM
Quote from: Viking on September 16, 2009, 04:52:31 PM
I was talking about Tin-Tin.  ;)

Not Poirot!? Well I'll be :boff:
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Viking

#588
September 16, 2009, 05:07:42 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on September 16, 2009, 04:56:03 PM
Quote from: Viking on September 16, 2009, 04:52:31 PM
I was talking about Tin-Tin.  ;)

Not Poirot!? Well I'll be :boff:

Poirot is fictional :contract:
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

merithyn

#589
September 16, 2009, 06:36:31 PM
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Caliga

#591
September 16, 2009, 06:46:04 PM
IIRC = if I recall correctly

ERGO

RC = recall correctly

:cool:
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Agelastus

#592
September 16, 2009, 09:11:57 PM
Quote from: Viking on September 16, 2009, 05:07:42 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on September 16, 2009, 04:56:03 PM
Quote from: Viking on September 16, 2009, 04:52:31 PM
I was talking about Tin-Tin.  ;)

Not Poirot!? Well I'll be :boff:

Poirot is fictional :contract:

So what - isn't that true of Belgium when you get right down to it. :P
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Eddie Teach

#593
September 16, 2009, 09:15:29 PM Last Edit: September 16, 2009, 09:18:31 PM by Peter Wiggin
RC = Royal Crown. Stop being lazy gits.

OMGITMETTTWWSIWJUTFIFNO.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

garbon

#594
September 17, 2009, 12:22:52 AM
Quote from: Caliga on September 16, 2009, 06:46:04 PM
IIRC = if I recall correctly

ERGO

RC = recall correctly

:cool:

(Bare)(back) = (having sex without a condom on) (a penis)

ERGO

Slimback = having a small penis
"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.

Razgovory

#595
September 17, 2009, 12:54:58 AM
Okay, this total loss of focus indicates nobody knows the answer.  It was Bill of Ypres.  Floor's open you numbskulls. :rolleyes:
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Alatriste

#596
September 17, 2009, 01:13:50 AM
OK, an easy one to get things moving...

Back in the first days of oceanic steam ships, one of the hottest arguments matched screw propellers against paddle wheels, but the Royal Navy settled the argument conclusively and once for all. How?

Note: Shouldn't that be Guillaume d'Yprés?

Razgovory

#597
September 17, 2009, 02:30:28 AM
My keyboard only writes in American.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Viking

#598
September 17, 2009, 03:45:55 AM
Quote from: Agelastus on September 16, 2009, 09:11:57 PM
Quote from: Viking on September 16, 2009, 05:07:42 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on September 16, 2009, 04:56:03 PM
Quote from: Viking on September 16, 2009, 04:52:31 PM
I was talking about Tin-Tin.  ;)

Not Poirot!? Well I'll be :boff:

Poirot is fictional :contract:

So what - isn't that true of Belgium when you get right down to it. :P

hmmm.. it seems you are adapting to the meme.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Viking

#599
September 17, 2009, 04:00:48 AM
Quote from: Alatriste on September 17, 2009, 01:13:50 AM
OK, an easy one to get things moving...

Back in the first days of oceanic steam ships, one of the hottest arguments matched screw propellers against paddle wheels, but the Royal Navy settled the argument conclusively and once for all. How?

Note: Shouldn't that be Guillaume d'Yprés?

They held a race in the channel in the 1840s. The screw propeller ship won, but the navy was expecting to pick the screw propeller anyway since the propeller had the advantage of not being veunerable to enemy gunnery by being inside the ship and below the waterline.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.
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