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To: marcos who wrote (1513)	10/18/2001 12:47:53 PM
From: LeonardSlye	Read Replies (1) of 8273

Where is your wife studying English? That was never in one of my lesson plans LOL. Mind you, I did take a few of the more deserving older students to the bar for lessons in conversational cursing. I just got a junk email from some outfit selling NYFD hats and American flags--now that’s obscenity--get your souvenirs here! Speaking of sanity being madness at its core, that “Lesser Known Facts of the Second World War” site is definitely addictive...I’ve just got it up now as a background I can go to for macabre entertainment from time to time as required. It’s interesting to see, in one of the articles, how much Roosevelt took from Britain before Pearl Harbour. He lifted all of their US and Canadian assets and even their scientific and technological knowledge. Business was good. He could have been the inspiration for “Daddy Warbucks” in Little Orphan Annie. I found elsewhere in a book a reference to a lot of Utah real estate being bought up by a Mr. A. Hitler at about the same time...maybe a nice little retirement home? Yeah books, remember them, the original laptop. I’ve been re-reading a book called “The Hinge Factor: How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History.” There’s one chapter in there about the friendly fire the Austrian army under, by the Grace of God Joseph II, the wannabe heroic military genius, got into when they tried to rout the Turks in 1788. It seems that a bunch of cavalry soldiers crossed over the bridge defining the front line to buy some shnapps from the Gypsies. A group of footsoldiers came up behind them and expressed the desire to also become drunken soldiers when they began firing on each to make their points. This was in enemy territory. The fleeing cavalrymen rumbling over the bridge were naturally mistaken for Turks and the battle was on with the command “Halte” being mistaken for “Alllah”. Each line of defense battled and retreated where they became the perceived aggressors for the next line. When the Turks showed up 2 days later they couldn’t believe their eyes, or their good fortune. They collected the bounty on 10,000 Austrian heads that day. Just a little more stuff on the dignity of war. Happy Trails, Lenny

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