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Old 04-17-2012, 06:36 PM
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Some gems from my fave war movie, a bridge too far

Maj. General Stanislaw Sosabowski: Doesn't matter what it was. When one man says to another, "I know what let's do today, let's play the war game."... everybody dies.

Corporal Hancock: Sir.
Major General Urquhart: Hancock. I've got lunatics laughing at me from the woods. My original plan has been scuppered now that the jeeps haven't arrived. My communications are completely broken down. Do you really believe any of that can be helped by a cup of tea?
Corporal Hancock: Couldn't hurt, sir.

Field Marshal Model: What can you see?
General Ludwig: Nothing. But they're going to try a river assault.
Field Marshal Model: It will fail.
General Ludwig: Of course. But what do we do if it doesn't?

John Frost: I'm awfully sorry, but I'm afraid we're going to have to occupy your house.

Lt. Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur: Have you ever been liberated?
Col. Robert Stout: I was divorced twice. Does that count?
Lt. Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur: Yes.
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"F*ck it... Bugler, Sound the Charge..."


Don't know where I found it, but I love it.
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Old 04-19-2012, 02:31 AM
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"F*ck it... Bugler, Sound the Charge..."


Don't know where I found it, but I love it.
Might it have been from WEB Griffin's Brotherhood of War series? I seem to recall one of the characters (Macmillan?) said something very similar a few times - something like "F*ck it Colonel, have the bugler sound the charge".
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Lt. Col. Owen Thursday: (As a pistol is exchanging hands) I'm sorry Sgt. Major I misjudged you

Sgt. Major Michael O'Rourke: Sir save the appogiles for our grandchilden

Both charachter are over run by hostile Native Americans and killed

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Might it have been from WEB Griffin's Brotherhood of War series? I seem to recall one of the characters (Macmillan?) said something very similar a few times - something like "F*ck it Colonel, have the bugler sound the charge".
Quite possible. Have the series, so I will reread it this weekend and find out.
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Let's see here.... A couple of moldie oldies...but I think they are appropriate!

Bruce Willis, Die Hard, "Yippie Kai Yay, Mother F****R!!!!

Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, "Do you feel lucky? Well, do you punk??"

Paul Hogan, Crocodile Dundee, "That's not a knife...THIS is a knife!!"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator, "I'll be back"

And a few from REAL history!! Always usefull

John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to fight"

Horatio Nelson, "Thank God I have done my duty"

John J. Pershing, "Lafayette, we are here"

Unknown, "Remember the Alamo"

Winston Churchill, "...this was their finest hour"

Julius Caesar, "Veni, vidi, vici"

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Another Churchill line: "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
Or, General Sir Charles Napier, "Peccavi."
The fighting in the 1840's was at a time of British expansion in India. Nevertheless, there were those in Britain who doubted the wisdom of too rapid an advance, and in particular, the capture of the province of Sind, which was thought likely to lead to an overextension of lines of communication. Napier was therefore under express orders not to capture the territory. Once he discovered, however, how little resistance there was, he took the province with ease. ''Peccavi'' therefore meant both ''I have Sind,'' and ''I have sinned'' - perhaps a perfect pun.
With apologies for introducing Latin puns unto the thread...
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Old 04-20-2012, 12:08 PM
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"Mister Cogburn - in your four years as US-Marshal - how many men have you shot ?"

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Old 04-20-2012, 12:19 PM
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Even more sadly I seem to recall that it was "Punch" that invented Napier's quote.

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Another Churchill line: "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
Or, General Sir Charles Napier, "Peccavi."
The fighting in the 1840's was at a time of British expansion in India. Nevertheless, there were those in Britain who doubted the wisdom of too rapid an advance, and in particular, the capture of the province of Sind, which was thought likely to lead to an overextension of lines of communication. Napier was therefore under express orders not to capture the territory. Once he discovered, however, how little resistance there was, he took the province with ease. ''Peccavi'' therefore meant both ''I have Sind,'' and ''I have sinned'' - perhaps a perfect pun.
With apologies for introducing Latin puns unto the thread...
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