One for Des

Still unlikely to be a move towards outright surrender, which is the
point I'm making.

Another "what if".

 

One Marine was badly wounded.

The Marines came under *heavy* fire. Not the Argies' fault that they
couldn't shoot straight.

 

What the ****** are you on?

Yes, it was. They tried to storm the Marine barracks at Stanley. There
was a helluva firefight. The Marines, according to The Falklands War,
fired over 6000 rounds.

And the Argies opened fire at Grytviken.

Jesus, Tallbloke, remember when I was going on about the difference
between opinion and facts? Well, here you have the *facts* wrong. Again.

 

According to the book I'm using to hit Tallbloke with, there were 23 at
Grytviken and 68 at Stanley. So I dunno where the figure 8 came from.

 

With Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, Herbert Lom and Sean Connery
they would have been unstoppable. Are there that many gravel pits in
Stanley?

 

Coming soon, to a newsgroup near you - Wars Of The Roses III.

 

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 19:11:14 +0000,

It was.

As was the Wisconsin.

My dad always wanted to be on a battleship, but that might have been
the result of chasing after the Graf Spee, on the Ajax.

"Good news, men. We've located an enemy vessel, and we're closing to
engage"

"Hooray. Which one, sir?"

"The Graf Spee"

"Oh. Bugger."
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Not even *remotely* close, Des.

I'd have been more than a little impressed to tell the truth.

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The Older Gentleman said...

I was always led to believe there were only 6 actually at the barracks
in Port Stanley, with a number on the Endeveaour in the area, and others
at Grytviken. After the attack on the barracks at Stanley, during which
no-one was killed but a few were hurt, the message went out that there
was far too big a force to deal with and the most prudent thing was to
lay down arms and see what happened.

 

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:03:02 +0100, wrote:

For someone who lambasted Bear for "chasing you around usenet, having
a pop at every post", you might want to consider your own behaviour,
in this instance, Sunshine.

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Example, please, or STFU.

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Buttery ones, no doubt.

 

<raises eyebrow>

 

We British can come up with great insults, however simply there's no
reason to waste good insults on a nation full of of stripy jumper
wearing peasants that put strings of garlic round their necks. If the
French were ever properly insulted the 100 brave ones would probably go
out and block the roads with their tractors in protest, whilst the rest
hide in their run down pig sheds smoking Gauloises and listening to
accordion music.

HTH

 

Ginge wrote:

Gauloises are nice. I used to smoke lots of them until my
arteries filled with soft cheese. I also have an accordion.
Does that mean I'm a Norman rather than a Pict, Celt,
Angle Grinder or Saxon?

 

Just what I thought.

 

spouted the following in

The EC is a basically a trade agreement between european countries which
concerns european economic interrelations.

Don't think it has much to do with what members states get up to in
their buccaneering adventures on the high seas near the coasts of other
peoples continents.

Both the UK and France are members of NATO however....

 

Smug ****

 

Grimly Curmudgeon <> spouted the
following in

About time BP put up or shut up then.

 

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