Post #120,409
10/7/03 11:39:09 PM
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Who Killed the Red Baron?
GREAT episode of NOVA - don't miss the replay:
[link|http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/redbaron/|http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/redbaron/]
I won't spoil it, O my cobbers.
-drl
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Post #120,410
10/7/03 11:42:50 PM
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Agreed - Excellent show.
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Post #120,415
10/8/03 12:23:36 AM
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It was Brown
a fine Canadian pilot. Of course, another fine Canadian pilot from that war was the incomparable Billy Bishop, the leading ace to actually survive the war (unlike Ball and Ritchofen).
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Post #120,420
10/8/03 12:46:23 AM
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Re: It was Brown
Sorry mate. 'Twas an Aussie sergeant, C.B. Popkin, with a Vickers, from the ground. He had been watching Richthofen's low-level pursuit of a newbie who had got himself in trouble, and had trained his gun in the general direction of the action in case the Baron reappeared, which he did. After the salvo, the Baron lived long enough to make a rough landing in a field, about 20 seconds.
The forensic evidence indicated that the fatal shot came obliquely from the front side, and was travelling on an upward trajectory. A rear shot from a plane is ruled out.
Lucky shot for the sergeant, but the Baron was undefeated in the air. A fitting end.
-drl
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Post #120,749
10/10/03 8:50:19 AM
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Yeah mate - you got it - was one uv us ut dun it
But those dope winged kite flyers in the air just couldn't accept that good ole aussie cunning took tha bastard out. Red Barron was & still is ours - all ours ! :-)
Ahhh well
Cheers Doug
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Post #120,445
10/8/03 9:14:27 AM
10/8/03 9:40:08 AM
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Reminds me of Sir Edmund Hillary
When George Mallory's body was found, Hillary was asked what he thought about the possibility that Mallory had summitted Everest nearly 30 years before him, Hillary [link|http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/11/cz_jc_0611feat.html|said]: It's one thing to get to the top of a mountain, but it's not really a complete job until you get safely to the bottom. ===
Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Edited by drewk
Oct. 8, 2003, 09:40:08 AM EDT
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Post #120,462
10/8/03 10:58:30 AM
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Snoopy
The Royal Guardsmen tell about it [link|http://www.lyricsdownload.com/cgi-bin/frames.cgi?http://www.lyricsdownload.com/the-royal-guardsmen-snoopy-versus-the-red-baron-lyrics.php4?r=1|here]
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It is much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why?
Because it is easier to give someone the finger than it is to give them a helping hand.
Mike Royko
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Post #120,464
10/8/03 11:01:19 AM
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I think that was the first album I ever bought. <snif!>
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Post #120,474
10/8/03 1:01:03 PM
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<weep>Me 2. </weep>
bcnu,
Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"
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Post #120,560
10/8/03 10:43:53 PM
10/8/03 10:44:42 PM
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Re: <weep>Me 3. </weep>
It also had "Hot Rod Lincoln" and "Purple People Easter" and "Teenie Weenie Polka Dot Bikini". I play it on a portable little record player.
Edited by broomberg
Oct. 8, 2003, 10:44:42 PM EDT
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Post #120,580
10/9/03 2:37:15 AM
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Hot Rod Lincoln
used to play that with one of the country bands I played with.
One of the great r'n'r tunes of all time, it's popularity with the country crowd notwithstanding.
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Post #120,590
10/9/03 6:51:18 AM
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It was in the closing credits of the Beverly Hillbillies.
The one with Lily Tomlin in.
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #120,499
10/8/03 3:24:39 PM
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Wow, it's up there in the mental attic
Wonder what else is mouldering in that place?
Nice memory. Makes me want to swim, eat hamburgers, and stare at teenage girls.
Gotta get the latest Beatles album.
Think we'll make it to the Moon?
(They're coming to take me away, HA HA...)
-drl
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Post #120,544
10/8/03 9:14:53 PM
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Re: Wow, it's up there in the mental attic
Makes me want to swim, eat hamburgers, and stare at teenage girls. You mean you STOPPED?!?! Gotta get the latest Beatles album. Let it be NAKED just came out. Poor Phil - how whole world's gone crackers. Think we'll make it to the Moon? Never again I think.
In Java, you can't escape the creepy feeling.
--James Gosling
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