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Anyway, I'm reading Casino Royale on my phone. It's peculiar to compare this book, written in 1953, with the Daniel Craig film...

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I'm wondering what we have to do to get more Octoberfest pictures?

WAY to few beer in the mug! Treason! The BBM is outraged!

Surely thats not all you noticed.

She isn't that beautiful...

Bigger boys stole my sig

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Anyway, I'm reading Casino Royale on my phone. It's peculiar to compare this book, written in 1953, with the Daniel Craig film...

As far as Bond films keeping true to their written heritage, I thought Craig's Casino Royale was pretty close to the book. Much more so than, for example, "View to a Kill", which was a short story about a crossbow assassination that Bond performed, shooting some schmuck on the diving board of his pool. The movie was a completely different animal in that case.

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

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A spambot is trying to sell us an "Inflatable Haunted House" on the General Discussion forum this morning...

Onime? Why is he involved in such retail endeavors?

You see "spambot" and you think of me? This cant be good.

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cepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end

"Grown ups are what's left when skool is finished."
"History started badly and hav been geting steadily worse."
- Nigel Molesworth.

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

Excepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end.

Bigger boys stole my sig

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cepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end

Only because the French helped you.

Of course in the next round we fought you and Napoleon at the same time.

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

Excepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end.

Judging by how that colony developed, I'm not so sure we actually lost that one We went somewhere alse and got tea and curry

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Anyway, I'm reading Casino Royale on my phone. It's peculiar to compare this book, written in 1953, with the Daniel Craig film...

As far as Bond films keeping true to their written heritage, I thought Craig's Casino Royale was pretty close to the book. Much more so than, for example, "View to a Kill", which was a short story about a crossbow assassination that Bond performed, shooting some schmuck on the diving board of his pool. The movie was a completely different animal in that case.

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cepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end

Only because the French helped you.

Of course in the next round we fought you and Napoleon at the same time.

And that's actually quite sad. You had to have help from the FRENCH!

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You know how sometimes you can just tell your opponent in an online game is about 12 years old   I just played a Blood Bowl match online and despite the fact he was winning all I got from him (with plenty of spelling mistakes and text speak) was:
wow, ur such a cheater! 
You keep rolling 6s. 
You finally missed a block, after 12 attempts.
Another 6!  You're definately cheating.

Then he rage-quit after I tackled his player with the ball despite the fact he was still winning   I don't think he appreciated the comment when I told him I'd hacked the game so he'd only roll 1s.  Sometimes I despair for the youth of today, then I realise that I just don't care about them.  The youth of tomorrow had better not be such whiners though

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cepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end

Only because the French helped you.

Of course in the next round we fought you and Napoleon at the same time.

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cepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end

Only because the French helped you.

Of course in the next round we fought you and Napoleon at the same time.

Mike

"Good times will set you free" - Jimmy Buffett

"They need more rum punch" - Me


Artwork by The Amazing Dixie

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

Excepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end.

Judging by how that colony developed, I'm not so sure we actually lost that one We went somewhere alse and got tea and curry

Trading Coca-cola and hamburgers for tea and curry? If you say so, sir. I think that smacks of sour grapes tho'

Bigger boys stole my sig

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cepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end

Only because the French helped you.

Of course in the next round we fought you and Napoleon at the same time.

And that's actually quite sad. You had to have help from the FRENCH!

WE perfer to think that the French had help from US!

Kind of ironic (and fortuitous for us) that the French had their one major naval victory over the RN in support of Yorktown.

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

Excepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end.

Judging by how that colony developed, I'm not so sure we actually lost that one We went somewhere alse and got tea and curry

Trading Coca-cola and hamburgers for tea and curry? If you say so, sir. I think that smacks of sour grapes tho'

We also traded Hannah Montanna, Paris Hilton, grits and chocolate covered bacon.

I'd rather have a decent Madras washed down with a strong mug of tea than unidentified animal between two bits of soggy bread with brown lettuce and thousand island dressing that's been left in the sun and a bucket of brown carbonated sugar water.

EDIT: We also don't all pretend to be Irish once a year

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

Excepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end.

Judging by how that colony developed, I'm not so sure we actually lost that one We went somewhere alse and got tea and curry

Trading Coca-cola and hamburgers for tea and curry? If you say so, sir. I think that smacks of sour grapes tho'

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

Excepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end.

Judging by how that colony developed, I'm not so sure we actually lost that one We went somewhere alse and got tea and curry

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

Excepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end.

Judging by how that colony developed, I'm not so sure we actually lost that one We went somewhere alse and got tea and curry

Oh no, you definately lost that one. You were already in India. But you learned from the experince with us not to push your colonies too much. So Canada and Austrialia never revolted (unlike India and South Africa).

Bigger boys stole my sig

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

Excepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end.

Judging by how that colony developed, I'm not so sure we actually lost that one We went somewhere alse and got tea and curry

Trading Coca-cola and hamburgers for tea and curry? If you say so, sir. I think that smacks of sour grapes tho'

We also traded Hannah Montanna, Paris Hilton, grits and chocolate covered bacon.

I'd rather have a decent Madras washed down with a strong mug of tea than unidentified animal between two bits of soggy bread with brown lettuce and thousand island dressing that's been left in the sun and a bucket of brown carbonated sugar water.

EDIT: We also don't all pretend to be Irish once a year

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

Excepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end.

Judging by how that colony developed, I'm not so sure we actually lost that one We went somewhere alse and got tea and curry

Oh no, you definately lost that one. You were already in India. But you learned from the experince with us not to push your colonies too much. So Canada and Austrialia never revolted (unlike India and South Africa).

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

Excepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end.

Judging by how that colony developed, I'm not so sure we actually lost that one We went somewhere alse and got tea and curry

Oh no, you definately lost that one. You were already in India. But you learned from the experince with us not to push your colonies too much. So Canada and Austrialia never revolted (unlike India and South Africa).

They were already revolting. They still are really

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

Excepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end.

Judging by how that colony developed, I'm not so sure we actually lost that one We went somewhere alse and got tea and curry

Trading Coca-cola and hamburgers for tea and curry? If you say so, sir. I think that smacks of sour grapes tho'

We also traded Hannah Montanna, Paris Hilton, grits and chocolate covered bacon.

I'd rather have a decent Madras washed down with a strong mug of tea than unidentified animal between two bits of soggy bread with brown lettuce and thousand island dressing that's been left in the sun and a bucket of brown carbonated sugar water.

EDIT: We also don't all pretend to be Irish once a year

My last word on this: Fergie. In the nude. Thank God for the Revolution!

Bigger boys stole my sig

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cepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end

Only because the French helped you.

Of course in the next round we fought you and Napoleon at the same time.

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

Excepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end.

Judging by how that colony developed, I'm not so sure we actually lost that one We went somewhere alse and got tea and curry

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That's because you sent the majority of them to us!

And about English food. I like it. It's the adventurer in me. Despite many years of eating many different governments food, it is only in England (at college) that in the words of one of our lecturers , "For the 1st time in my life I really don't know what I'm eating. I can't even guess".

Bigger boys stole my sig

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cepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end

Only because the French helped you.

Of course in the next round we fought you and Napoleon at the same time.

And that's actually quite sad. You had to have help from the FRENCH!

WE perfer to think that the French had help from US!

Kind of ironic (and fortuitous for us) that the French had their one major naval victory over the RN in support of Yorktown.

Surely that can't be the only time that the French beat on the Li...English at sea?

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

Excepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end.

Judging by how that colony developed, I'm not so sure we actually lost that one We went somewhere alse and got tea and curry

And that colony turned into your banker!

Bigger boys stole my sig

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The UK has always begrudged every penny spent on the armed forces and then wonders why we lose the opening rounds of every war. 'Twas ever thus.

Excepting for when you guys had a pretty well endowed military, won the opening rounds and then got pummeled at the end.

Judging by how that colony developed, I'm not so sure we actually lost that one We went somewhere alse and got tea and curry

Trading Coca-cola and hamburgers for tea and curry? If you say so, sir. I think that smacks of sour grapes tho'

We also traded Hannah Montanna, Paris Hilton, grits and chocolate covered bacon.

I'd rather have a decent Madras washed down with a strong mug of tea than unidentified animal between two bits of soggy bread with brown lettuce and thousand island dressing that's been left in the sun and a bucket of brown carbonated sugar water.

EDIT: We also don't all pretend to be Irish once a year

My last word on this: Fergie. In the nude. Thank God for the Revolution!

I've got plenty more words. If they're to do with that last post then they're mostly