Gustavus Adolphus the Great remembrance thread (Neil, stay out)

Started by Gambrinus, November 06, 2009, 12:13:29 PM

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Gambrinus

November 06, 2009, 12:13:29 PM
December 9, 1594 - November 6, 1632
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Valmy

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November 06, 2009, 12:23:20 PM
A great defender of German liberties.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Admiral Yi

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November 06, 2009, 12:23:31 PM
Couldn't you have found a less dorky picture?

Habbaku

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November 06, 2009, 12:26:40 PM
Say what you will about Gustavus Adolphus, but he killed lots of Swedes.  :cheers:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Josquius

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November 06, 2009, 12:29:24 PM
1632 is a awesome book.
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Darth Wagtaros

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November 06, 2009, 12:31:55 PM
PDH!

Faeelin

#7
November 06, 2009, 12:33:16 PM
Quote from: Tyr on November 06, 2009, 12:29:24 PM
1632 is a awesome book.

:bleeding:

I don't see the big deal about the guy. "Woo, I died gloroiusly in battle!"

Syt

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November 06, 2009, 12:40:34 PM
Quote from: Valmy on November 06, 2009, 12:23:20 PM
A great defender of German liberties.

:lmfao: :lmfao: :lmfao:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Bluebook

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November 06, 2009, 01:31:43 PM
One of the persons who influenced Sweden the most. I wonder what would have happened had he not perished that morning.

Viking

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November 06, 2009, 01:36:23 PM
He killed Papists, Poles, Russians and Austrians. How can one not approve.
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.

Razgovory

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November 06, 2009, 01:55:23 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 06, 2009, 12:23:31 PM
Couldn't you have found a less dorky picture?

He had a pretty dorky look about him.
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

Razgovory

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November 06, 2009, 01:55:42 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 06, 2009, 01:36:23 PM
He killed Papists, Poles, Russians and Austrians. How can one not approve.

So did the Muslims.
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

The Minsky Moment

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November 06, 2009, 02:02:51 PM
Quote from: Bluebook on November 06, 2009, 01:31:43 PM
One of the persons who influenced Sweden the most. I wonder what would have happened had he not perished that morning.

Probably nothing positive.  He had panache as a commander of soldiers, but he was no Oxenstierna.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson
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