Real Life Quotes

[Heid the Ba]

Now you're just starting to throw names around...

Guilty as charged.

[Мастер]

Now you're just starting to throw names around...

Guilty as charged.

I was wondering whether I should be trying some ancient Greeks :)

[Lianachan]

Now you're just starting to throw names around...

Guilty as charged.

Likewise. Nevertheless....

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.

[Мастер]

Hmm. Doesn't sound like something TE would have said . . .

[Lianachan]

Indeed it does not.

[Heid the Ba]

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

[Arneb]

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

[Lianachan]

It's somebody else doing that.

[Arneb]

Churchill, commenting on the African theatre in his book on WWII?

[Heid the Ba]

Right, right, wrong.

[MM_Dandy]

Oh, shoot, my guess was going to be C.S. Lewis.

[Мастер]

Right, right, wrong.

So Churchill commenting on Africa in some other book then?

[Heid the Ba]

Yes, the "fanatical fury" refers to a particular movement.

[Arneb]

The River War, then - and the movemeent would be the Muslim Bortherhood?

[Heid the Ba]

The River War and the Mahdists, I think the Muslim Brotherhood are later.

[Lianachan]

Indeed. From the extensive Churchill Was An Arsehole collection.

[Arneb]

Do I still qualify?

[Lianachan]

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

[tubeswell]

So who's next?

[Arneb]

Oopsm, that would be me. I'll see if I can think of something tonight.

[Arneb]

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."

[Мастер]

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 . . ."

[Arneb]

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

[Heid the Ba]

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.

[Мастер]

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".