How much does it take...? - Page 7

dlloyd · #49 November 7th, 2006, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by rhisiart

Irony is so beautiful. Rock on Reed.

What did I miss...? Apparently something important there.

Rhisiart · #50 November 7th, 2006, 06:51 PM

Oh my gad, I am repeating myself!

Rhisiart · #51 November 7th, 2006, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by rhisiart

Irony is so beautiful.

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Originally Posted by rhisiart

Irony is so beautiful. Rock on Reed.

Oh my gad, I am repeating myself!

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Originally Posted by rhisiart

Oh my gad, I am repeating myself!

Oh feck, I've done it again.

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Originally Posted by dlloyd

What did I miss...? Apparently something important there.

Reed old boy, you forgot NSAIDs.

TGIF. Mandalay. OUT.

Your faithful servant - Kitchener of Khartoum

reed · #52 November 8th, 2006, 03:51 PM

REED is OTL (out to lunch). But that is how "normal" folks talk in DC (Washington, DC). And that is just a starter.
GWB (George W. Bush) has yet to learn the alphabet, but he's moving along.
Not PDQ but very slooooowly. 10-4 tango charlie. over and out.

reed · #53 November 8th, 2006, 04:03 PM

OH! Did anybody see the Press Conference of GWB today (Nov. 8th)? Post Midterm election and Rumsfeld "cutting and running." Either he is on the booze again or he has gone bonkers. Amazing. Please check it out.

rubaiyat · #54 November 14th, 2006, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by rhisiart

Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin killed an awful lot of people, up to one billion collectively depending on your historical sources.

Did those "historical sources" happen to mention the entire population of Europe, Russia and North America combined was less than a billion at the time?

Thankfully no-one survived or the survivors would have had to dig up the dead to kill them a second and possibly a third time.

Perhaps America is using the same sources to show their "success' in Iraq. They certainly did in Vietnam where anyone killed became a "Charlie" and as the numbers passed up the line of command everyone multiplied them by a bit more till the ridiculous became the absurd.

In everyone's eye's except the American's.

reed · #55 November 15th, 2006, 05:42 PM

rhisiart

VC (Viet Cong) count you mean? CBS had a listing every evening with Walter Cronkite, anchorman: US # of killed, South Vietnamese: # of killed, North Vietnamese: # of killed. Viet cong and any dead chicken # of killed. One thing that made everybody think was that the body count was too high...for US soldiers mostly but on all counts in fact. False as they were.The atrocities on both sides came at the same time. Something was very wrong. The rest of the story we all know.
That's how I learned to hate war and no longer wanted to be a soldier like so many in my family had been since the American Revolution.

Need I say anything about GWB & those like him?

Cheers.

Rhisiart · #56 November 15th, 2006, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by rubaiyat

Did those "historical sources" happen to mention the entire population of Europe, Russia and North America combined was less than a billion at the time?

Thankfully no one survived or the survivors would have had to dig up the dead to kill them a second and possibly a third time.

Perhaps America is using the same sources to show their "success' in Iraq. They certainly did in Vietnam where anyone killed became a "Charlie" and as the numbers passed up the line of command everyone multiplied them by a bit more till the ridiculous became the absurd.

In everyone's eye's except the American's.

Yes one billion is about right (actually probably an underestimate). Hitler killed 50,000,000. Stalin killed three times as many.

Please bear mind that one billion in the US is equivalent to 100,000,000 in Europe.

BTW, “In everyone's eye's except the American's” is a pseudonym for anyone with an IQ below 50 tends to vote Republican, in contrast to the 60% of Americans who vote for the Democrats.

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Originally Posted by reed

rhisiart

VC (Viet Cong) count you mean? CBS had a listing every evening with Walter Cronkite, anchorman: US # of killed, South Vietnamese: # of killed, North Vietnamese: # of killed. Viet cong and any dead chicken # of killed. One thing that made everybody think was that the body count was too high...for US soldiers mostly but on all counts in fact. False as they were.The atrocities on both sides came at the same time. Something was very wrong. The rest of the story we all know.
That's how I learned to hate war and no longer wanted to be a soldier like so many in my family had been since the American Revolution.

Need I say anything about GWB & those like him?

Cheers.

Reed, I think you are indulging in too much of the dolca vita (I say with utter envy).

P.S. Do you think on reflection that Betty Blue was load of twaddle?