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Carriage return line feed.
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I thought you were as old as me?

 

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May I recommend anything you can get about Otto Skorzeny, especially
'Commando Extraordinary? One of the many Waffen SS officers who was a
soldier and not a war criminal. (And a damn fine soldier too.)

 

The house I lived in from 1944 until 1950 was an unmade road in an
avenue of conker trees, and

 

He was, indeed, quite extraordinary. Only equivalent I can think of in
UK forces was possibly David Stirling, and even he didn't manage to pull
the number of strokes Skorzeny did.

What happened to him after the war?

 

There was a wondrous old cartoon I saw a reproduction of a few
years back, showing someone's marvellous new invention, a steam-powered
ditch-digger and hedge trimmer (or something Simula) -- "Does the work
of three men and a boy!" The cartoon shows it in operation, and you
count, and sure enough, it is crewed by three man and a boy...

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Dunno, I use a newsreader that strips out OE signatures as well
(with a quirk that the .sig below has to be less than ~10 lines, ISTR).

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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Well, not really. It's a line record terminator, which is not
necessarily a return. It is on a Macintosh, but in Unix it's traditionally
a linefeed. CP/M and DOS used return-linefeed; VMS uses record-length
information within the file. Of course, these all get translated to
return-linefeed when text is displayed on a physical device (except for
a Teletype where you might use return-linefeed-nul-nul-nul-nul to give the
print-head time to return to the left margin).

I'll take my tongue out of my cheek and get my coat, shall I?

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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Painful way to go, but at least he would have had a nice finish!

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WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

I _could_ tell you about the secret handshake. But then you'd have to kill me.

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WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

D. Reid
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*Puts head in hands*

And to think I expected this group to be about those two-wheeled
contraptions people ride about on...

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*Groan*

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I say, Ivan old chap, wasn't it you that was always a great advocate
of a 72-character maximum line length? I make that 79, which screws up
my line wrapping. When did you change youre tune?

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10-13 Weather and road report?
:-#

 

"Officer's doughnut down. Repeat - officer's doughnut down."

 

As you were Capt. I'll get back to my Teletype.

 

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(The Older Gentleman) saying
something like:

Obscurity. Istr he died a few years ago after a none-too-successful
business career in Germany. There was a slight suggestion his career was
helped along by 'old friends'.

Must've been tough for blokes like that; to have done so much so early
on in their lives and then it was all over and they'd lost.

Whatever; he might have been a ****, but he was a clean one, relatively
speaking.
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ahem.....Spain?

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERskorzeny.htm

 

Aha. I got him mixed up with some other old Nazi.
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The message <1hado3d.13q1vubh28ybkN%>
from (The Older Gentleman) contains
these words:

He was held in Nurenburg for a couple of years while the Allies tried to
find evidence against him - the only charge they had was 'prolonging the
war' - which was after all, his duty as a soldier.

After the Rastenburg plot to kill Hitler failed, the whole German
Wehrmacht was in disarray, with conflicting stories about who was in
charge. Skorzeny arrived at headquarters to find nobody was directing
operations, so he took over, restored order and directed the whole show.
Meanwhile, Churchill was complacently saying "let dog eat dog!"

If we had siezed the moment, there would have been little organised
resistance.

While people were being interviewed - interrogated - at Nuremburg and no
evidence against Skorzeny was uncovered, he lost patience, walked out of
the prison and ended up in Spain, where he spent the rest of his life.

 

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Psychles?