01-27-2007, 06:04 PM | #4841 (permalink) |
still, wondering.
Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge
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For all the swords and sorcery fantasies I've read, I can't say I like warfare that much...although warfare was a subtext of Out of Africa, also. Maybe it excites me in a way I can't acknowledge.
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01-28-2007, 01:25 PM | #4844 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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"i don't want to set the world on fire..."
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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. |
01-28-2007, 03:49 PM | #4852 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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Location: upstate
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"i just want to start a flame in your heart..."
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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. |
01-28-2007, 04:30 PM | #4855 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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Location: upstate
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/me hides...
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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. |
01-28-2007, 07:48 PM | #4867 (permalink) | |
still, wondering.
Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge
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She went to Vegas,
All I got was a t-shirt, The rest of it stayed. Quote:
We have our little big place. It confuses us.
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01-29-2007, 03:54 PM | #4874 (permalink) |
still, wondering.
Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge
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I enjoyed Michigan, mostly the U.P., so I guess I have been a bit farther east than Chicago. Damn, I hate it when I catch myself mistaken too late. (How do you spell the first word of that Ste. Marie place?) Anyway, that's where I failed to get into Canada...
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