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Post by Marlowe » Wed, 09 Jun 2004 8:48 pm

Hi there,
Interesting idea with the group you plan to gather together: I suggest a Korean with a Japanese, an Iraqi with a USA ex-POW in Golf, a French historian with a German historian, a Romanian historiograph with a Hungarian revisionist. Wouldn't that be a fantastic talk?
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Post by Mary Hatch Bailey » Mon, 08 May 2006 7:55 pm

Yes and let's see if we can sit Smith & Wesson down with UNICEF...

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Post by dot dot dot » Mon, 08 May 2006 9:01 pm

or Deadpoet and Eric... 8-)

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Post by Mary Hatch Bailey » Mon, 08 May 2006 9:15 pm

Eric from the Netherlands wrote:or Deadpoet and Eric... 8-)

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or Vaucluse and donno :D

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Post by tiki » Mon, 08 May 2006 9:59 pm

Mary Hatch Bailey wrote:
Eric from the Netherlands wrote:or Deadpoet and Eric... 8-)

(EADG waiting as a replacement... :P )

Eric
or Vaucluse and donno :D
or the darkside vs us.
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Re: History

Post by Carpe Diem » Mon, 08 May 2006 10:17 pm

Marlowe wrote:Hi there,
Interesting idea with the group you plan to gather together: I suggest a Korean with a Japanese, an Iraqi with a USA ex-POW in Golf, a French historian with a German historian, a Romanian historiograph with a Hungarian revisionist. Wouldn't that be a fantastic talk?
Yours,
Marlowe
It was announced last week that, starting next year, history books in France and Germany will be the same (except the language of course). See, things are changing...
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Re: History

Post by dot dot dot » Mon, 08 May 2006 10:26 pm

Carpe Diem wrote:
Marlowe wrote:Hi there,
Interesting idea with the group you plan to gather together: I suggest a Korean with a Japanese, an Iraqi with a USA ex-POW in Golf, a French historian with a German historian, a Romanian historiograph with a Hungarian revisionist. Wouldn't that be a fantastic talk?
Yours,
Marlowe
It was announced last week that, starting next year, history books in France and Germany will be the same (except the language of course). See, things are changing...
Both are probably going to state it was the Italians starting World War II?

Eric

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Re: History

Post by Bremen » Mon, 08 May 2006 11:17 pm

Marlowe wrote:Hi there,
Interesting idea with the group you plan to gather together: I suggest a Korean with a Japanese, an Iraqi with a USA ex-POW in Golf, a French historian with a German historian, a Romanian historiograph with a Hungarian revisionist. Wouldn't that be a fantastic talk?
Yours,
Marlowe
Erm. It would either be fantastic, or turn into a classing western/cowboy bar-room brawl. Tables and chairs flying, whiskey bottles getting smashed on heads, etc.
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
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Re: History

Post by Bremen » Mon, 08 May 2006 11:18 pm

Eric from the Netherlands wrote:
Both are probably going to state it was the Italians starting World War II?

Eric
No. The dutch. That little country in the middle of england and germany always tosses cheese across the border!!!
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Post by Bremen » Mon, 08 May 2006 11:19 pm

Eric from the Netherlands wrote:
Both are probably going to state it was the Italians starting World War II?

Eric
Or if you're going to be realy historically accurate, it was the Austrians. Specifically, a single Austrian.
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Post by Bubbles » Tue, 09 May 2006 12:08 am

'Scuse me, but I have it on VERY good authority that it was the Welsh who started both world wars. Something to do with sheep stealing and Rebecca's Daughters going out in the middle of the night to pull down tollgates...(then getting ahead of themselves and hiring themselves out as renegrades; it was these strange blokes in womens clothes who offended the Germans, thus starting both wars).....


I didn't make Becca's Daughters up, honest......(but I did fib about annoying the Germans!!!)

http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/item10/10984

Oh, to sit down with Vauc, Quasimodo and CD. What a lovely little chat we'd have, hmm? :wink: :D
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