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Offline C(Sea)Bass

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« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2008, 09:20:02 PM »
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I sure am hungry for some fish 'n' chips now.

Who makes the best?  Long John Silvers?


Take my advice, avoid fish and chips. IT's made from the nastiest little critters in the sea, dogfish, gosh darn garbage fish

Who is Winston Churchill anyways?:D
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« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2008, 11:25:38 PM »
Fish and chips around here is a box of fish sticks and a bag of Lays
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« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2008, 11:31:40 PM »
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Fish and chips around here is a box of fish sticks and a bag of Lays while watching The People's Court.  K-mart sucks!



:D :aok
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« Reply #18 on: February 04, 2008, 11:32:34 PM »
:rofl :rofl :cry :rofl

Now thats piss your pants funny
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« Reply #19 on: February 04, 2008, 11:44:32 PM »
This is a prime example why, when inevitably the Germans get uppity again. America should let them have europe, rather then joining the Allied Zerg rush for a 3rd time.
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« Reply #20 on: February 04, 2008, 11:47:51 PM »
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It's ok, England, Winston Churchill believed in you.
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« Reply #21 on: February 05, 2008, 02:16:40 AM »
"Where do you think the term "Brit" came from?"

Where do you think it came from? ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briton

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« Reply #22 on: February 05, 2008, 02:28:39 AM »
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Some recent news you must have missed...may help explain things:


"Churchill dropped from England's history syllabus"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/13/1977438.htm?section=justin



SCANDAL! Maybe it's just me, but on my list, if I was teaching British history, he'd be the last one to drop out.

Anyway, one more linkie
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512087&in_page_id=1770

Sad really, that the British now enter the same level of history knowledge as (cough) their cousins in Geography :D
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« Reply #23 on: February 05, 2008, 02:55:09 AM »
Winston Churchill has always been my favourite character in Lord of the Rings. I was very disappointed when Steven Spielberg left him out of the film adaption.
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« Reply #24 on: February 05, 2008, 04:35:42 AM »
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And they're not kidding!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328088,00.html

American Students aren't far behind IMHO.

SEEMS like the dumbing down thing is intentional and working.



But was his contribution to history significant?

Would anything be different now, if he had never been born?

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« Reply #25 on: February 05, 2008, 04:45:12 AM »
yea we would all be living in the thousand year Reich.
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« Reply #26 on: February 05, 2008, 07:14:57 AM »
survey carried out by UKTV Gold, then reported by Fox News :rofl
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« Reply #27 on: February 05, 2008, 07:51:50 AM »
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But was his contribution to history significant?

Would anything be different now, if he had never been born?

SIG 22o


I'd say quite a lot. The total layout of the world after WW2 for starters.
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« Reply #28 on: February 05, 2008, 08:05:03 AM »
If Britain had a weak politician, see chamberlain and agreed to a peace deal like France.   This is purely a "what if"

No daylight bombing, No aerial threat to German production.  The rest of the empire on friendly axis terms.  No second front, Russia I believe would have been defeated.  

Now lets see Japan in the far east, the whole of russia and Africa.  It would have been West vs East and West would have been outnumbered.

I'm going to go stick his ugly mug on our website so people can remember what he looked like :aok
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« Reply #29 on: February 05, 2008, 09:11:26 AM »
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survey carried out by UKTV Gold, then reported by Fox News :rofl

I read this yesterday and came to the same conclusion... this survey probaby has the same significance has one of Jay Leno's Jaywalking segments...
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