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RE: OT: ZULU - 12/13/2005 12:11:53 AM

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Especially for a place like 7-11, whose adds claim that they "have everything, except a closing time". Untruth in advertising, what is the world coming to...?

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RE: OT: ZULU - 12/13/2005 10:17:33 AM

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Yes a great movie, the Australian Army often use to show it on their junior NCO courses. Leadership training I think in the seventiesand early eighties.

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RE: OT: ZULU - 12/13/2005 11:42:11 AM

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Yeah I well remember watch it as a cadet. i found a copy on slae for $10 the other day and grabbed it !

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RE: OT: ZULU - 12/13/2005 6:03:04 PM

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With all respect to Monkey and his family tree (seriously, I mean no disrespect), with a name like Gonville Bromhead, Mokey's great, great, great uncle probably learned to fight at a very young age.

I always liked his character in the movie. He came across as reserved and sensible (great Brittish qualities). He also seemed a fairly peaceful man. One of the more real "lines" I heard in the movie was "How many actions have I fought? Do you think I could stand this butcher's yard more than once?"

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ORIGINAL: Monkey

Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead, was my great great great uncle on my mothers side of the family. thanks to my brothers tireless family tree digging.

Apparently he was a rather quiet reserved man, in fact he didn't even write a report of the battle, either official or personal, later he became very deaf, and finally died of typhoid at Allahabad India on 9th Feb 1891, he was only 49.

Tankerace, .45 ammo is what you need, it is available, I fired a Martini Henry when I lived in New Zealand and really enjoyed it, its a heavy though very accurate rifle to shoot, I was able to kill watermelons at 200yds without any trouble

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RE: OT: ZULU - 12/13/2005 8:33:48 PM

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Since we are OT on war movies in South Africa - let me put in a plug for Breaker Morant. This is an incredible film - subject is the real life trial of the Australian officers who "disappeared" some missionaries giving intel to the Boers in the Great Anglo- Boer War. Some battle scenes, but more important the fascinating background and take on morals in a warzone - could even be considered relevant to Iraq.

Few seem to have heard of it, but very much recommend. As well as great closing music: "Soldier of the Queen".

Cheers!

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RE: OT: ZULU - 12/13/2005 8:38:20 PM

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This is an incredible film - subject is the real life trial of the Australian officers who "disappeared" some missionaries giving intel to the Boers in the Great Anglo- Boer War.

I agree. Remembering "Rule 303" always brings chills.

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RE: OT: ZULU - 12/13/2005 9:15:25 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

With all respect to Monkey and his family tree (seriously, I mean no disrespect), with a name like Gonville Bromhead, Mokey's great, great, great uncle probably learned to fight at a very young age.

I always liked his character in the movie. He came across as reserved and sensible (great Brittish qualities). He also seemed a fairly peaceful man. One of the more real "lines" I heard in the movie was "How many actions have I fought? Do you think I could stand this butcher's yard more than once?"

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ORIGINAL: Monkey

Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead, was my great great great uncle on my mothers side of the family. thanks to my brothers tireless family tree digging.

Apparently he was a rather quiet reserved man, in fact he didn't even write a report of the battle, either official or personal, later he became very deaf, and finally died of typhoid at Allahabad India on 9th Feb 1891, he was only 49.

Tankerace, .45 ammo is what you need, it is available, I fired a Martini Henry when I lived in New Zealand and really enjoyed it, its a heavy though very accurate rifle to shoot, I was able to kill watermelons at 200yds without any trouble

I would think that you are quite right niceguy, its not one of the best names you could have been given

I think the family back then went for odd firstnames though, there's a Becher a Benson and an Everard ! in the family tree as well, with monickers like those, they had to be tough, I guess its a victorian version of Johnny Cash's a boy named sue

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RE: OT: ZULU - 12/14/2005 1:15:51 PM

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I would think that you are quite right niceguy, its not one of the best names you could have been given I think the family back then went for odd firstnames though, there's a Becher a Benson and an Everard ! in the family tree as well, with monickers like those, they had to be tough, I guess its a victorian version of Johnny Cash's a boy named sue

Sounds like they were honoring a lineage, Norman, perhaps if I am not mistaken.

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RE: OT: ZULU - 12/15/2005 1:18:16 AM

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Well Tabpub, I wish I knew, but there's not many who can trace a lineage that far back!!. I do know about Becher though, he had Irish ancestry from my mother's side of the family and they intermarried with the Hungerfords, they were all from Clonakilty, Co Cork as far as I know

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