grizzlymc wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 1:46 pm
That will. do!
Now, what was he eating when he said that.
'Twas a chicken-leg (that he threw over his shoulder).
General Alava, his excellent Spanish liaison officer, mentioned in his memoir that Wellington had virtually no interest in food and that the question 'What would you likefor lunch?' was invariably met with 'Cold meat'. Alava joked that his experience with Wellington left him with a lifelong fear of the phrases 'cold meat' and 'at dawn'.
Argument! It has to descend into handbaggery at two paces with a complete exposee of the other party's disgusting personal habits and the mandatory chorus of the "Boney was a god and I want to have his baby" crowd.
How do I know such a thing by the way. My father, whose wellingtonics library amounts to a quarter of my books, noticed the discrepancy and the hunted through every first person account of nosey's staff to find corroboratory evidence one way or another. Sadly, he never established a knockout score for either chicken or lamb.
RMD wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 4:24 pm
We were in Angola this week, where I received possibly the most comprehensive spanking I have ever received in a wargame...
That's a long way to go for a spanking. I would have thought you could have found someone closer to home. Especially as you live in Wales......
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.) Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.