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2009-01-16 -Obits-

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Posted by Besoeker 2009-01-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top

#1 The British have a habit of producing colorful characters, don't they ? This gentleman seems to have been almost absurdly ubiquitous. One year its Cold War Eastern Europe, another year its the Bridge on the River Kwai, yet another he's invading Persia. If this guys career were made into a work of fiction it would be criticized as being excessively contrived.

Posted by buwaya 2009-01-16 02:44|| 2009-01-16 02:44|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if he is survived by his younger and quieter brother, the German Lieder scholar.

Posted by Gleper Speaking for Boskone9294 2009-01-16 07:40|| 2009-01-16 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 What a man.

Posted by Lagom 2009-01-16 10:44|| 2009-01-16 10:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Didn't Terry Thomas play him in the movies?

Posted by Jack is Back">Jack is Back 2009-01-16 10:55|| 2009-01-16 10:55|| Front Page Top

#5 In the "tinkler, tyalor soldier, spy" novel by John Le Carré" where Smiley has to discover the identity of a very high-ranking MI-5 official (one of the 5 higher), there is charactaer of an action-type guy, called Prideaux, who before the action in the novel, is infiltrated in Czechoslovakia to discover the identity of the traitor only to discover he has walked into a trap and Czechoslovakians are arrested. It looks like it was inspired by Colonel Smiley. At the end of the novel, the traitor in unmasked and arrested. He doesn't feel guilty at all and confidently await for a prisoner exchange with the Soviets. But Prideaux infiltrates the facility where is being guarded and kills him.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2009-01-16 11:06|| 2009-01-16 11:06|| Front Page Top

#6 awesome, totally fricken awesome. What a guy. God bless him.

Posted by Andy Ulusoque aka Broadhead6 2009-01-16 12:13|| 2009-01-16 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Broadhead6, about your comment last night, could you contact me?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-01-16 12:16|| 2009-01-16 12:16|| Front Page Top

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