Author Topic: Here's your sign  (Read 6384 times)

Mohammed As`Zaman Bey

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Re: Here's your sign
« Reply #60 on: 02 December 2019, 20:01:46 »
I'm assuming that this implies that your boss has more interest in golf than his job?

  That was a line from "A Bridge Too Far" (1977); Colonel Frost (played by Anthony Hopkins) preparing for the jump into Arnhem. He also told his batman to pack his dinner jacket. Frost was as optimistic as Monty, who came up with the plan. I consider it a very fine film with a great cast, and plenty of operational WW2 Allied vehicle eye candy.

John Frost/Anthony Hopkins

Blacksheep

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Re: Here's your sign
« Reply #61 on: 17 January 2020, 12:06:53 »
I personally experienced this Murphy's Rule of Combat: "Friendly fire isn't."

Cannonshop

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Re: Here's your sign
« Reply #62 on: 17 January 2020, 12:52:06 »
"We'll be back before Christmas"
WWI 1914 quote
They were, in fact, NOT back by Christmas...

Christmas of 1939 maybe...
"If you have to ask permission, then it's no longer a Right, it has been turned into a Privilege-something that can be and will be taken from you when convenient."

Kovax

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Re: Here's your sign
« Reply #63 on: 20 January 2020, 12:14:10 »
"All we need is a few hundred dead in order to sit at the peace talks as one who has fought." - Benito M. before entering WWII.

 

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