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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Wed Nov 05, 2014 3:35 pm

Arneb wrote:Now you're just starting to throw names around...


Guilty as charged. :oops:
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Мастер » Wed Nov 05, 2014 3:37 pm

Heid the Ba' wrote:
Arneb wrote:Now you're just starting to throw names around...


Guilty as charged. :oops:


I was wondering whether I should be trying some ancient Greeks :)
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:06 pm

Heid the Ba' wrote:
Arneb wrote:Now you're just starting to throw names around...


Guilty as charged. :oops:


Likewise. Nevertheless....

Gentlemen, start your guesses wrote:How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Мастер » Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:15 pm

Hmm. Doesn't sound like something TE would have said . . .
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:34 pm

Indeed it does not.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:45 pm

I will excuse myself for a day or two as I read this book recently. Not for laughs but for other quotes . . .
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Arneb » Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:27 pm

Maybe Rudyard Kipling, explaining to his patient readers another incidence of moral and general superiority of the true Englishman?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:19 pm

It's somebody else doing that.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Arneb » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:56 pm

Churchill, commenting on the African theatre in his book on WWII?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Wed Nov 05, 2014 11:09 pm

Right, right, wrong.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby MM_Dandy » Thu Nov 06, 2014 3:34 am

Oh, shoot, my guess was going to be C.S. Lewis.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Мастер » Thu Nov 06, 2014 3:35 am

Heid the Ba' wrote:Right, right, wrong.


So Churchill commenting on Africa in some other book then?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:32 am

Yes, the "fanatical fury" refers to a particular movement.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Arneb » Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:39 am

The River War, then - and the movemeent would be the Muslim Bortherhood?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Thu Nov 06, 2014 9:06 am

The River War and the Mahdists, I think the Muslim Brotherhood are later.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Thu Nov 06, 2014 9:07 am

Indeed. From the extensive Churchill Was An Arsehole collection.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Arneb » Thu Nov 06, 2014 9:18 am

Do I still qualify?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Thu Nov 06, 2014 9:36 am

Of course! I was judged correct for randomly guessing the person the previous quote was said at, after all, and you got Churchill right.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby tubeswell » Sat Nov 22, 2014 5:04 am

So who's next?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Arneb » Sat Nov 22, 2014 12:48 pm

Oopsm, that would be me. I'll see if I can think of something tonight.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Arneb » Tue Nov 25, 2014 10:33 pm

Here is something from someone who can really drip irony:

"If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country."
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Мастер » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:40 am

Arneb wrote:Here is something from someone who can really drip irony:

"If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country."


Can't be W, he wouldn't start with "If one . . ."
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Arneb » Wed Nov 26, 2014 6:50 am

True, and neither would he be one for dripping irony, but unfortunately, that leaves quite a lot of others.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Wed Nov 26, 2014 6:52 am

We have been to Iraq so often it isn't funny. Churchill in the Great War? about General Townsend and Kut? Google that if you think the more recent Gulf Wars were clusterfucks.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Мастер » Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:01 am

Heid the Ba' wrote:We have been to Iraq so often it isn't funny. Churchill in the Great War? about General Townsend and Kut? Google that if you think the more recent Gulf Wars were clusterfucks.


I guess it could refer to such previous engagements, but it would presumably have to be after such time (1919?) as there was a country called "Iraq".
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