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htj wrote: And here I thought we were celebrating fire and toffee apples.
To put it more in context, it was originally more of a celebration of the fact that England rebelled from the Pope and stayed rebelled from him, stopping those that would have put England back under Catholic rule, given the chance.
Also, it's about stopping terrorism. I thought you Yanks were all about stopping terrorism!
When it's directed at the British Crown we can't exactly talk too much trash now can we? Be a wee dram hypocritical.
Edit: Further I will fully endorse toffee apples and fire, that's a fantastic combo with lots of booze
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I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
htj wrote: And here I thought we were celebrating fire and toffee apples.
To put it more in context, it was originally more of a celebration of the fact that England rebelled from the Pope and stayed rebelled from him, stopping those that would have put England back under Catholic rule, given the chance.
Also, it's about stopping terrorism. I thought you Yanks were all about stopping terrorism!
When it's directed at the British Crown we can't exactly talk too much trash now can we? Be a wee dram hypocritical.
Surely you could call him out for doing it all sneaky like? When you guys commit dastardly treason you do it all open in the sunshine, with brightly coloured flags and so on. The gentleman's way.
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htj wrote:You can always trust a man who quotes himself in his signature.
htj wrote: And here I thought we were celebrating fire and toffee apples.
To put it more in context, it was originally more of a celebration of the fact that England rebelled from the Pope and stayed rebelled from him, stopping those that would have put England back under Catholic rule, given the chance.
Also, it's about stopping terrorism. I thought you Yanks were all about stopping terrorism!
When it's directed at the British Crown we can't exactly talk too much trash now can we? Be a wee dram hypocritical.
Surely you could call him out for doing it all sneaky like? When you guys commit dastardly treason you do it all open in the sunshine, with brightly coloured flags and so on. The gentleman's way.
Actually I seem to recall British generals being rather upset at us upstart colonists for NOT fighting that way, mostly cause we'd lose. Snipers targeting officers, guerrilla warfare..., in fact my Infinity unit is named for one of the fathers of modern guerrilla warfare, an American Brigadier General by the name of Francis Marion "The Swamp Fox". The Revolution was really the start of a major shift in warfare because a bunch of lads figured out that wearing bright colors and standing in bawkes was a really good way to shorten one's life expectancy...
Of course the massive use of lightsabers by both sides I think rules out any historical accusation of not behaving by the honorable standards of warfare.
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I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
KalashnikovMarine wrote: Actually I seem to recall British generals being rather upset at us upstart colonists for NOT fighting that way, mostly cause we'd lose. Snipers targeting officers, guerrilla warfare..., in fact my Infinity unit is named for one of the fathers of modern guerrilla warfare, an American Brigadier General by the name of Francis Marion "The Swamp Fox". The Revolution was really the start of a major shift in warfare because a bunch of lads figured out that wearing bright colors and standing in bawkes was a really good way to shorten one's life expectancy...
Sure, that's what won it for you, but you started off with the box-of-brightly-coloured-men tactic. No-one could begrudge you a little improvisation (except aforementioned British generals). Fawkes went straight in for sneaking. Roguish behaviour if ever I saw it.
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htj wrote:You can always trust a man who quotes himself in his signature.
Sure, that's what won it for you, but you started off with the box-of-brightly-coloured-men tactic. No-one could begrudge you a little improvisation (except aforementioned British generals). Fawkes went straight in for sneaking. Roguish behaviour if ever I saw it.
The first major engagement of the war consisted of militia men running and gunning against advancing British flesh boxes (no where NEAR as effective as metal bawkes) IIRC, and we ended up doing a mix of tactics through out the war because some people thought we had to challenge the British army on it's own terms. but yes there's a clear difference between putting a musket round between a british officer's eyes and burying what was to be a rather large bomb underneath the House of Lords, you usually end up with dead nobility either way, but the former's much more "fair" (not to the dead officer of course) especially given a smooth bore musket had a range that wasn't much more then half a football field in the hands of a competent marksman, which explains why said bawkes were so popular, it takes one's shooting and killing of the enemy from the "individual skill" category and hands it over to the law of averages.
I beg of you sarge let me lead the charge when the battle lines are drawn
Lemme at least leave a good hoof beat they'll remember loud and long
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Told the kids I dressed as a student.
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malfred wrote: I wore a Tshirt and short sleeve collared shirt to work.
Told the kids I dressed as a student.
Did you pop your collar?
I knew I forgot something!
Actually, a kid had a similar collared shirt so I followed him around the
classroom until he realized what was going on.
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2012/11/01 18:58:47
Subject: Re:Bromsy's Awesome All Hallows Eve Thread
Alright, it's that time of year again. Despite the government shutdown torpedoing my partying budget I had already lined up my costume. I'm still going ahead with the festivities, but will now be moving to a more flask-centric plan of action. Here's a teaser of my costume for the year.
What do you jerks have planned for this year?
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