09-01-2009, 06:24 AM | #7723 (permalink) |
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scandanavian country?
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09-02-2009, 03:02 AM | #7726 (permalink) |
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germany?
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09-02-2009, 06:23 AM | #7728 (permalink) |
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I am in Poland but I almost said Germany.
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09-02-2009, 08:40 AM | #7733 (permalink) |
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my edit: now that it's sinking in that you said "I almost said Germany" I think you might be in Danzig aka Gdańsk...a city which had long been a sore point of territorial dispute between Germany & Poland, especially in pre-WWII nationalist Germany since the Treaty of Versailles gave it to Poland.
Since Sept 1 to 3 are the dates of the event, I'm guessing you are in Poland somewhere related to the German invasion that started WWII...is that right? Last edited by BadNick; 09-02-2009 at 08:47 AM.. |
09-02-2009, 09:07 AM | #7734 (permalink) |
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I'm not at Danzig. I am at a place connected to the war, but no so much the invasion.
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09-02-2009, 11:24 AM | #7735 (permalink) |
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Are you near Pyry in the Kabaty Woods? ...where the secrets of the Enigma code were disclosed to the Allies?
During a period of over six and a half years, from late December 1932 to the outbreak of World War II, three Polish mathematician-cryptologists (Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki) at the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau in Warsaw had developed a number of techniques and devices – including the "grill" method, Różycki's "clock", Rejewski's "cyclometer" and "card catalog", Zygalski's "perforated sheets", and Rejewski's "cryptologic bomb" (Polish term: bomba, precursor to the later British "Bombe", named after its Polish predecessor) – to facilitate decryption of messages produced on the German "Enigma" cipher machine. A few weeks before the outbreak of World War II, on July 25, 1939, near Pyry in the Kabaty Woods just south of Warsaw, Poland disclosed her achievements to France and the United Kingdom, which had, up to that time, failed in all their own efforts to crack the German military Enigma cipher. Had Poland not shared her Enigma-decryption results at Pyry, the United Kingdom would have been delayed at the least a year or two in its reading of the Enigma cyphers or might even have been unable to read them at all. In the event, intelligence gained from this source, codenamed ULTRA, was extremely valuable in the Allied prosecution of the war, though the exact influence of ULTRA on its course remains a subject of debate. Some have argued that ULTRA decided the very outcome of the war, though a view has also found broad acceptance that ULTRA hastened Germany's defeat by between 6 months and 4 years. |
09-02-2009, 11:43 AM | #7736 (permalink) |
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No. I think, by looking, that's much closer to Warsaw then where I am. I'm not connected to the Enigma code as far as I know.
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09-02-2009, 12:41 PM | #7737 (permalink) |
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sobribor?
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09-02-2009, 01:21 PM | #7738 (permalink) |
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I am at Sobibor. One of the only camps to have successful escapes, two actually.
Nice work Phil, you're up.
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09-02-2009, 01:51 PM | #7739 (permalink) |
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that was too easy for a wild-ass guess...
i'll think of somewhere soon...
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09-03-2009, 01:24 AM | #7741 (permalink) |
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No kidding. My first thought was "how could he know that?" I went back and read the Q&A and yeah SWAG.
OK Mr. Smarty Pants are you at the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota?
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09-03-2009, 02:43 AM | #7742 (permalink) |
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it's "scientific wild-assed guess..."
ok,, where am i, and it's not the crazy horse memorial?
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09-03-2009, 03:16 AM | #7744 (permalink) |
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nh...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
09-03-2009, 04:47 AM | #7746 (permalink) |
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on the sofa...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
09-03-2009, 04:01 PM | #7748 (permalink) |
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east of the mrs...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
09-04-2009, 03:02 AM | #7750 (permalink) |
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north of 40...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
09-04-2009, 04:10 AM | #7752 (permalink) |
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in a state that borders the atlantic...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
09-04-2009, 05:40 AM | #7754 (permalink) |
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i would be in maine...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
09-04-2009, 07:29 AM | #7756 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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i am...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
09-04-2009, 11:41 AM | #7758 (permalink) |
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i am not...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
09-05-2009, 01:50 AM | #7760 (permalink) |
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your neighbor moved to a place north of me...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
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