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| Optio | Cheers "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious"
__________________ Everybody thinks they’re gonna get a chance to punch some Nazi in the face at Normandy and those days are over, they are long gone.
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| Centurion | Oscar Wilde.
__________________ "We are the pilgrims, Master We shall go always a little further, it may be beyond the last blue mountain barred with snow, Across that angry or glimmering sea..." |
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| Centurion | Post; Assuming I was right I´ll have to get a question up now as I have limited time.I´ll give you lot a few to work with. First one: Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Who and where? Second, my sig line. Where from and where does it appear today? (most famous place, military connection). Have at it. //KJ. |
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| Optio | Oscar Wilde - you got it. Hm... for your first one I'll go with Sun Tzu from his treatise The Art Of War I'll have to work on the second one. Edit I think I have it Hassan-The Golden Road by james Elroy Flecker, it is inscribed on the SAS memorial at Credenhill Last edited by Mr KillKill; March 31st, 2008 at 15:44. |
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| God of Scones | The second one, all I could think of is The pigrims in The Golden Journey To Samarkand and At the Gate of the Sun, in Bagdad.
__________________ The next couple that sits at a stop light and sucks face and ignores their changed light is getting pushed out into oncoming traffic by me. No exceptions. |
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| Centurion | Quote:
It´s inscribed on the "clocktower". Your up next. | |
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| Optio | Sorry for taken so long, This person was refferred to, by his troops, as Le Roi Jean, what was his real name. Last edited by Mr KillKill; April 16th, 2008 at 06:28. |
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| Tribunus Laticlavius | sorry - i have been working on this. Is it King John of England?
__________________ . I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king. I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing . Each time I find myself flat on my face I pick myself up and get back in the race. |
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| Optio | Nope Wrong country and century Keep trying though ![]() |
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