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2004-09-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Seafarious 2004-09-30 10:16:21 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Curse you, Red Baron!

Posted by Snoopy 2004-09-30 9:05:13 AM|| 2004-09-30 9:05:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Where's that song by the Royal Guardsmen about how Snoopy finally iced Richthofen?

Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-09-30 10:32:29 AM|| 2004-09-30 10:32:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Chocks away Ginger! Boringly enough, I believe a Richtoffen attended our school as a gesture of German goodwill post WW1- Albert Ball, one of the RB's adversaries was an old boy. I read recently that the RB's demise was due to a brain injury acquired from a shrapnel wound in a dogfight some months prior. If it wasn't for that we may never have got the blighter.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-30 11:16:28 AM|| 2004-09-30 11:16:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The most popular one Snoopy's Christmas (Words) but there is another also by the Guardsmen called Snoopy vs. the Red Baron

Posted by GP 2004-09-30 11:48:20 AM|| 2004-09-30 11:48:20 AM|| Front Page Top

Red Baron?
I'm hungry for Pizza!

They even have a biplane!

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-30 1:03:00 PM|| 2004-09-30 1:03:00 PM|| Front Page Top

According to the magazine Filmecho:Filmwoche, "The Red Baron" has been in the cards for five years, with research for the screenplay carried out and prepared in Los Angeles.

JC on a Crutch!

It's the story of a German pilot/war hero and they had to depend on America for the screenplay? He's your hero, guys - can't you even write your own damn script?

And the Euros whine about U.S. films dominating the world....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-09-30 1:28:31 PM|| 2004-09-30 1:28:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Read the article. WWI was a horror allright. The average life span of a new pilot taking to the air was two hours. It doesn't change the basic fact that Richtoffen was a stone killer. Raised as a Junker aristocrat, he enjoyed what he did. A real war lover.

Posted by Weird Al 2004-09-30 5:18:50 PM|| 2004-09-30 5:18:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Got that right Weird Al, but he didn't have nothing on Frank Luke.

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-30 7:15:18 PM|| 2004-09-30 7:15:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 So many great ones. I spent a good part of my youth reading about these guys. Never got tired of their exploits. Eyeball to eyeball combat. Boelke's rules would still apply today:

Try to secure advantages before you attack. If possible, keep the sun behind you.
Always carry through an attack when you have started it.
Fire only at close range and only when your opponent is properly in your sights.
Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses.
In any form of attack, it is essential to assail your opponent from behind.
If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.
When over the enemy's lines, never forget your own line of retreat.
Collision

Posted by Weird Al 2004-09-30 7:48:16 PM|| 2004-09-30 7:48:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Steve from Relto:

Here you go.

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