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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on May 12, 2011 13:15:18 GMT
Maybe Laconia was part of Sparta, then. Have to say, the book does stretch the credible with some of it's links, but I'm not one to let truth get in the way of a damned good story [/News of the World] Oh aye, I didn't 'splain myself clearly. I thought it was bound to be apocryphal, but then Wiki said it was true... Now I shall whack my friends with the knowledge stick for the rest of the week. Also, the next time an American brings up the "nuts" story about Bastogne, I can say they were just copying.
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Post by floplexter on May 12, 2011 13:29:34 GMT
Quite.
I once had a huge argument with a Dutch lady about the Storming of the Bastille. She maintained that it was a massive blow for liberty and the freedom of the people. I maintained that it was complete bollocks because when it was stormed, it only had two blokes and an asthmatic dog in it.
I've never checked my facts (I had heard that the Marquis de Sade had been in the Bastille and kept shouting out the window to raise the populace into a fervour, so they moved him and the other prisoners- the day before the populace decided to rise up...) and I am a bit scared too in case the Dutch bungflopper was right.
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