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Post #236,099
by rcareaga
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11/26/05 3:53:43 PM
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New staggering losses
I took this as a reference to the widely observed tendency of mortally wounded soldiers to become briefly unsteady on their pins just before falling.

cordially,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Post #236,100
by bepatient
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11/26/05 4:08:08 PM
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New I see
must revise my mental index to change the version of staggering associated with losses.

Usually I had associated your selection with drunk.

Maybe another one of Willy's "new rules"
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition

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         Phil vs Pentagon - (rcareaga) - (1) - Nov. 26, 2005, 02:59:03 PM EST
             you mean when I was calling in rounds of WP to Mark - (boxley) - Nov. 26, 2005, 06:35:21 PM EST
         Looks like I hit a nerve! - (tuberculosis) - (17) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:40:46 PM EDT
             One nit - (bepatient) - (12) - Nov. 26, 2005, 03:49:30 PM EST
                 staggering losses - (rcareaga) - (1) - Nov. 26, 2005, 03:53:43 PM EST
                     I see - (bepatient) - Nov. 26, 2005, 04:08:08 PM EST
                 Nit again... - (Simon_Jester) - (4) - Nov. 26, 2005, 04:09:08 PM EST
                     Point taken - (bepatient) - (3) - Nov. 26, 2005, 05:04:31 PM EST
                         Big nit - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Nov. 26, 2005, 06:58:16 PM EST
                             I should know better. - (bepatient) - (1) - Nov. 26, 2005, 08:47:11 PM EST
                                 Right. Not by a factor of 10. - (ben_tilly) - Nov. 27, 2005, 12:47:16 AM EST
                 I was talking about monetary cost. - (tuberculosis) - (3) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:42:16 PM EDT
                     Cost of containment is $380 billion so invading was cheaper - (boxley) - (2) - Nov. 27, 2005, 10:35:19 PM EST
                         Um, box...did you read that article?? - (Simon_Jester) - Nov. 27, 2005, 10:54:44 PM EST
                         I hope their analysis is better than their OS analysis. - (Another Scott) - Nov. 27, 2005, 11:13:46 PM EST
                 To the sufficiently staggerable, anything is staggering. - (marlowe) - Dec. 3, 2005, 09:09:58 AM EST
             staggering loss of materiel maybe - (boxley) - (3) - Nov. 26, 2005, 06:38:09 PM EST
                 Add in economic casualties - start with your kids - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:42:20 PM EDT
                     nice slide from under your prognostications of doom :-) -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Nov. 27, 2005, 10:30:17 PM EST
                         Who needs prognostications - just look around. -NT - (Ashton) - Nov. 28, 2005, 05:19:06 AM EST

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