not so famous quotes
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Topic: not so famous quotes
Posted By: Thegeneral
Subject: not so famous quotes
Date Posted: 25-Jul-2005 at 18:36
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I found yet another page of WWII "funnies"! Some quotes that really made these people look like fools!
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Posted By: Belisarius
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 01:17
Would... you be willing to share this page with the rest of us? 
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Posted By: Thegeneral
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 08:55
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terribly sorry, I thought I put it. http://www.geocities.com/limeydvr/facts.htm - http://www.geocities.com/limeydvr/facts.htm -------------
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Posted By: Belisarius
Date Posted: 26-Jul-2005 at 23:44
I found this hilarious!  ------------- |
Posted By: Zagros
Date Posted: 29-Sep-2005 at 19:00
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came across this little gem today. ------------- |
Posted By: Tobodai
Date Posted: 29-Sep-2005 at 20:15
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On December 3, 1941, Admiral Charles H. McMorris said, "Pearl Harbor will never be attacked from the air"!!! ------------- "the people are nothing but a great beast... I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value." -Alexander Hamilton |
Posted By: Thegeneral
Date Posted: 29-Sep-2005 at 20:21
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And at the time of Pearl Harbor the top US Navy Command was called CINCUS (pronounced "sink us"), I hate irony! -------------
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Posted By: Constantine XI
Date Posted: 29-Sep-2005 at 22:42
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This one did it for me most: "You can't even shoot straight" yelled the Romanian dictator, Ion Antonescu (who hated the Russians with a passion) after two attempts to execute him by a Russian firing squad. A Soviet officer had to administer the coup de grace. ------------- |
Posted By: Decebal
Date Posted: 30-Sep-2005 at 12:07
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Actually, I find that kind of admirable. The man knew he was dead anyway. ------------- What is history but a fable agreed upon? Napoleon Bonaparte Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.- Mohandas Gandhi 
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Posted By: Decebal
Date Posted: 30-Sep-2005 at 12:09
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Apparently when Winston Churchill was giving his famous speech: "We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them in the hills, [...] we shall never surrender", at one point he said to one of his aides in a low voice: "We shall hit them over the head with beer bottles, because we don't have anything else"! ------------- What is history but a fable agreed upon? Napoleon Bonaparte Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.- Mohandas Gandhi
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Posted By: Emperor Barbarossa
Date Posted: 01-Oct-2005 at 22:11
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"For Christ's sake, men-COME ON! Do you want to live forever?" Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, 4 june 1918. Leading Marines at Belleu Wood. ------------- 
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Posted By: vulkan02
Date Posted: 03-Oct-2005 at 15:50
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When confronted with the British quip "You Yanks are overpaid,
oversexed and over here" The American reply was "and you
Limeys are underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower".
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