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Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:07 am**

tubeswell wrote:Mactep started it: I finished it.

Story of the first world war, no?

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:03 am**

IIRC during the 1st world war, that the opposing sides did play some sport (reading 'between the lines' of your comment ;-) ) or something of the sort in the story about the xmas of 1914. But usually its allies who play sport in the down-time periods between combat AFAICT.

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:07 am**

Actually, I was referring to this:

On Sunday, 28 June 1914, at approximately 1:15 pm, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Gavrilo Princip, 19 at the time, a member of Young Bosnia and one of a group of assassins organized by the Black Hand.[4] The event led to a chain of events that eventually triggered World War I.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_F ... assination

Treaties and alligiances like falling dominoes triggered WWI.

Not quite that simple, I know. :wink:

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:39 am**

My (considerate) daughter gave me a 'complete history' book of WWI for my birthday a couple of years ago which goes into all the imperial arms race history preceding the conflict (as well as the legacy of the war and the great depression and rise of nazism). The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was virtually a pretext for the impending imperial aggression and war-mongering that had been brewing for some time AFAICT on my 2nd or 3rd reading of the tome.

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2011 2:50 pm**

KLA2 wrote:
tubeswell wrote:Mactep started it: I finished it.

Story of the first world war, no?

I don't think so! The circumstances of Mactep's early life were a by-product of the second world war, a couple of decades after it ended. Mactep was not around to start either one.

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:19 pm**

And neither was I

Posted: **Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:48 am**

Um, this thread is becoming a Gordian Knot.

Mactep, perhaps go back a page and read the posts. If I inadvertantly gave offence, sorry. :?

Posted: **Wed Sep 28, 2011 5:17 am**

KLA2 wrote:Um, this thread is becoming a Gordian Knot.

Knotters of the World, Untie!

Posted: **Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:14 pm**

Knot opened: I win.

Posted: **Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:47 am**

You did knot. I won!

Posted: **Mon Oct 03, 2011 1:46 am**

Clever wordplay but ...
Ahem.

Posted: **Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:35 pm**

Posted: **Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:22 am**

Amen. A concluding word.

Let it be so, Tubes.

Posted: **Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:42 am**

And so it is.

Posted: **Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:12 am**

tubeswell wrote:And so it is.

... is now and ever shall be.

Posted: **Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:25 am**

like you said

Posted: **Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:47 am**

And say agian ...

Posted: **Thu Oct 06, 2011 6:01 am**

KLA2 wrote:And say agian ...

'again'?

Posted: **Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:57 am**

I have this, tubes. Your input is no longer required. 8)

Posted: **Fri Oct 07, 2011 6:19 am**

I hear ya, but I don't quite understand ya.

Posted: **Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:40 pm**

Move on, nuthin'to see here. Someone else won.

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:16 am**

Read the title of this thread. Then read this post. 8)

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:17 pm**

http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n34/ ... G_0036.mp4

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 3:33 am**

Really, Mactep, I know you have better things to do.

Thanks for your input, but I will take it from here. :wink:

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 12:20 pm**

OK, we'll leave you in charge.

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