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2004-04-30 
Gentle Reminders
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Posted by Steve White 2004-04-30 12:50:17 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Conflicted, confused and ready to follow?

Oh My now what should I do?
Posted by Lucky 2004-04-30 1:10:36 AM||   2004-04-30 1:10:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 ...read like the Welsh regiment in Zulu.
"Mr. Witt, sir. Link your articles properly now. There's a good gentleman. You'll upset the lads."
Posted by Colour Sgt. Bourne 2004-04-30 2:51:09 AM||   2004-04-30 2:51:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Tell Fred we wish him well!!
Posted by B 2004-04-30 3:54:53 AM||   2004-04-30 3:54:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 What's page 2? Where's the link to it? I don't see it anywhere.
Posted by gromky 2004-04-30 5:01:01 AM||   2004-04-30 5:01:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 It's at the top of the page, the link called 'Politix 'n' Stuff', next to 'WoT'. It's where all the Kerry bashing and 'funny' stories are supposed to go.
Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-04-30 5:14:48 AM||   2004-04-30 5:14:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 It would be nice if it were called, "Page 2" or something. Maybe it's just me, I've always been a bit touched in the head.
Posted by gromky 2004-04-30 5:48:00 AM||   2004-04-30 5:48:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Last time Fred was gone, you guys were literally hell on wheels. This time you're giving us gentle reminders. What happened?
Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-04-30 6:31:34 AM||   2004-04-30 6:31:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 ...read like the Welsh regiment in Zulu.

"Rantburg is a bloody miracle, Fred."

"If it's a miracle, Steve, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point four five caliber miracle."
Posted by Mike  2004-04-30 6:37:01 AM||   2004-04-30 6:37:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 My favorite line is:
young trooper"Why us?
Colour sargent:Because we're here,lad.Nobody else just us.
Posted by raptor 2004-04-30 8:08:30 AM||   2004-04-30 8:08:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 This time you're giving us gentle reminders. What happened?

Better medication.
Posted by Steve  2004-04-30 8:33:57 AM||   2004-04-30 8:33:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 im agree on anonymus posters. their all look alike to me.
Posted by muck4doo 2004-04-30 9:22:07 AM|| [http://www.kfccruelty.com/gregory-pryor.html]  2004-04-30 9:22:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 I am anonymous2U and I'm staying that way.

Do you have any idea how long it took me to come up w/that, and now you want my brain to explode.

I'm going to Vegas on Monday, can't have my brain explode.

IF I win the big one, then I'll change it.
Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-04-30 10:23:39 AM||   2004-04-30 10:23:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 "I'll make a poster out of you yet, Anonymous."

(Continuing the Zulu theme.)
Posted by Mike  2004-04-30 10:57:20 AM||   2004-04-30 10:57:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 This is why I love the Rantburgers ... when my son was born my dad (who got me interested in military history and Zulu) gave me a t-shirt reading "Mother of Rorke's Drift."
Posted by Sofia  2004-04-30 11:03:16 AM||   2004-04-30 11:03:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Zulu?
Posted by BigEd 2004-04-30 11:04:57 AM||   2004-04-30 11:04:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 Zulu is a 1964 British film about the Battle of Rourke's Drift in South Africa in 1879. It's a good, rip-snorting stiff-upper-lip adventure based on extraordinary real-life events:

This action was at Rorke's Drift, Wednesday 22- Thursday 23 January, 1879, when some 150 soldiers defended a supply station against some 4000 Zulus, aided by the Martini-Henry rifle 'with some guts behind it'.

Since the Victoria Cross was instigated by Queen Victoria in 1856, only 1354 have been awarded (the double awards for Arthur Martin-Leake, Charles Hazlitt Upham and Noel Godfrey Chavasse are included in the total).

At Rorke's Drift, eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded. Seven to the 2nd Battalion, 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot, one to the Army Medical Department, one to the Royal Engineers, one to the Commissariat and Transport Department and one to the Natal Native Contingent.


There's an excellent discussion of the battle in one chapter of Victor Davis Hanson's Carnage and Culture.
Posted by Mike  2004-04-30 11:18:35 AM||   2004-04-30 11:18:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 ima a think we need some mealie bags for hummmmveees
Posted by HalfEmpty 2004-04-30 12:51:57 PM||   2004-04-30 12:51:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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