I like it.TaborMallory post=18.61115.787620 said:As one of my friends once said:
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I like it.TaborMallory post=18.61115.787620 said:As one of my friends once said:
"Unquote."
Actually, it was a general during the Civil War in America, and his last words were "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-" just before getting shot in the head by a sniper.TheMadDoctorsCat post=18.61115.787661 said:I haven't waded through fifteen pages of quotes to see if this one's come up yet, but one British commander famously stood up and stuck his head out of the top of the trench to indicate his contempt of the opposition in the Boer war, remarking, "Those damn boers can't shoot str -"
One would think he was about to say "straight" but let's face it, they couldn't exactly ask him afterwards.
EDIT: Actually, probably an urban legend come to think of it... still a pretty ironic way to go though.
LOL. Urban legend then. The same story applied to different cultural settings, a dead giveaway. (The one I read about definitely mentioned the Boers.)thebobmaster post=18.61115.787965 said:Actually, it was a general during the Civil War in America, and his last words were "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-" just before getting shot in the head by a sniper.TheMadDoctorsCat post=18.61115.787661 said:I haven't waded through fifteen pages of quotes to see if this one's come up yet, but one British commander famously stood up and stuck his head out of the top of the trench to indicate his contempt of the opposition in the Boer war, remarking, "Those damn boers can't shoot str -"
One would think he was about to say "straight" but let's face it, they couldn't exactly ask him afterwards.
EDIT: Actually, probably an urban legend come to think of it... still a pretty ironic way to go though.