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Old October 11th, 2007, 03:35 AM
Abdul Hadi Pasha Abdul Hadi Pasha is offline
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"NOW let's see that dog get in here!" - Emperor Qin Shi Huang upon completion of the Great Wall.*






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Old October 11th, 2007, 03:52 AM
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"You win some you lose some".

--- Duke of Wellington on Waterloo
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Old October 11th, 2007, 07:44 AM
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"Basrah you say? It looks like a pile of rubble to me." Imam Khomeini, 1983

"Well if prophet said so then Ali should succeed him." Abu Bakr, 632

"I don't know. Selling indulgences doesn't strike me as such a smart idea." Pope Leo X

"Holy shit, look at that ass. I have to get in his pants." Jack T. Chick, 1971
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Old October 11th, 2007, 09:22 AM
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Now THATS a close run thing - General Armstrong Custer, post battle of little big horn
In a similar vein:

"Mount up men, we've got to go help General Custer"

Major Marcus Reno
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Old October 11th, 2007, 09:59 AM
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"The only good southerner is a dead southerner"
General George "the Butcher" MacClellan, one of the most aggresive commanders of American Civil War.
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Old October 11th, 2007, 11:44 AM
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"I promised to back his claim so I think William of Normandy should be the next king of England"


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Old October 11th, 2007, 12:03 PM
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I'll hand back Moltke to the Germans after I have used him, or perhaps I will snatch Bismarck too
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Old October 11th, 2007, 12:31 PM
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Kalmar???.....never heard of it!!!

Margrethe 1.
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Old October 11th, 2007, 12:37 PM
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I'm back... from the icy cold west!

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Old October 11th, 2007, 12:43 PM
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"Mmm, more Empire, drool." -- King George III of Great Britain.
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Old October 11th, 2007, 12:46 PM
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Good thing I noticed those cigars I dropped, they're pretty damned expensive.


Unknown Confederate officer near Sharpsburg during the Second American Revolution.
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Old October 11th, 2007, 12:52 PM
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"Prevent the enemy carrying away the guns? What does that idiot Raglan mean by that? We're not going to get to their guns if we have to go through all of their infantry first!" - Earl of Cardigan
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Old October 11th, 2007, 12:55 PM
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"Prevent the enemy carrying away the guns? What does that idiot Raglan mean by that? We're not going to get to their guns if we have to go through all of their infantry first!" - Earl of Cardigan
"Wait a minute, I've found where Lord Lucan's been hiding all these years!"
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Old October 11th, 2007, 12:57 PM
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"Dybboel - Prussia defeated 1864" - Danish General Staff, ed. H. v. Moltke
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Old October 11th, 2007, 01:26 PM
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I am going to repeal capital punishment....

King Christian II, Stockholm 1520
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Old October 11th, 2007, 01:29 PM
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Old October 11th, 2007, 01:31 PM
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You know, Foley, I only have one eye - but I see the signal clearly - retreat!

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Old October 11th, 2007, 01:32 PM
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You win this time, Gaijin!

Emperor Hirohito, end of WWII
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Old October 11th, 2007, 03:38 PM
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You win this time, Gaijin!

Emperor Hirohito, end of WWII
"Despite the best efforts of everyone, the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." Hirohito after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Oh wait a minute, he did say that. Which goes to show the British pale before the Japanese in their powers of understatement.
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Old October 11th, 2007, 03:57 PM
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