Today I learned...

[Japher]

Ian Flemming is an awesome name. He should write books.

[Uncle Sparky]

... and I'm sure you noted most Hiroshima Jews were away from ground zero that day, too. Coincidence? I think not!

[Tuberski]

I learned today that 7-11 has bought 150 stores in the San Antonio area. 300 miles from the world headquarters of 7-11 and they are just barely coming back to the area.

ACK!

[Alexander's Horse]

"The battle is re-enacted by a French group specializing in re-enactments of scenarios involving Canadian soldiers."

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/television/Spies+Enigma+machine+James+Bond+creator+help/7110959/story.html

such a group exists???

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Well, if they re-enacted scenarios involving French soldiers they'd be left with the following options-

1- Humiliating and overwhelming defeats.
2- Largely unsuccessful acts of collaboration by Vichy forces.

[Sava]

james bond should die of syphilis in the next movie

[dannubis]

Well, if they re-enacted scenarios involving French soldiers they'd be left with the following options-

1- Humiliating and overwhelming defeats.
2- Largely unsuccessful acts of collaboration by Vichy forces.

Bittersweet dude, as i remember the British army was saved by a narrow stretch of water in Dunkirk.

[Ecthy]

Bittersweet dude, as i remember the British army was saved by a narrow stretch of water in Dunkirk.

That and a stopping order from the enemy army's commander in chief.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Bittersweet dude, as i remember the British army was saved by a narrow stretch of water in Dunkirk.

That's rather like saying "HAH! YOU WERE ONLY SAVED BY THE TWO METRES OF IMPREGNABLE CASTLE WALLS!". Still, it's easy to be relaxed about these things when you didn't lose.

[Alexander's Horse]

Britain was saved because Prussians don't like getting their boots wet

[dannubis]

That's rather like saying "HAH! YOU WERE ONLY SAVED BY THE TWO METRES OF IMPREGNABLE CASTLE WALLS!". Still, it's easy to be relaxed about these things when you didn't lose.

Looks at map of British empire pre and post WW2 and points and laughs...

[OneFootInTheGrave]

While it may appear that Germans lost the war, their original goal was to be more powerful than UK and France coming out of it, and that is precisely what happened in the end...

[Alexander's Horse]

yes if they justed waited WWI and WWII avoided and germany wound't have lost all those people or territory