From: John Fields on 3 Aug 2006 15:54 On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:08:25 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >In return you got our 'golden jewels' utterly free of charge like radar and jet engines. --- Hundreds of thousands of American lives lost fighting on your behalf is hardly "free". -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: John Woodgate on 3 Aug 2006 15:49 In message <4jevt0F7ncu4U2(a)individual.net>, dated Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> writes >So one has to be incited to oppose a foreign occupying army... Well, if that army would be inactive, and in due course would go away entirely, if it wasn't attacked, a civilian's best interest is not to attack it. So that civilian needs to be incited to lose his reason and attack. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
From: John Fields on 3 Aug 2006 16:01 On 3 Aug 2006 03:20:34 -0700, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org wrote: > >Phat Bytestard wrote: >> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:17:36 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" >> <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> Gave us: >> >> >Eeyore wrote: >> >> >> >> bill.sloman(a)ieee.org wrote: >> >> >> >> > Michael A. Terrell wrote: >> >> > > Jim Thompson wrote: >> >> Obviously too many head shots. > >This is field-hockey, not ice-hockey, as I've already mentioned. I've >got two scars on my face - neither obvious - as souveniers of head >shots. The small scar in the centre of my forehead dates from my early >twenties when I slipped and fell while in hot pursuit of a forward, and >put my forehead onto the end of his backswing. That took five or six >stitches to repair. Bloody, but there was no evidence of concussion. --- Until lately. ;) -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: Michael A. Terrell on 3 Aug 2006 16:04 John Fields wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:08:25 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > >In return you got our 'golden jewels' utterly free of charge like radar and jet engines. > > --- > Hundreds of thousands of American lives lost fighting on your > behalf is hardly "free". Don't forget all the men who came home missing limbs or with other disabilities, who are still slowing dying off. -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
From: John Fields on 3 Aug 2006 16:05
On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:28:16 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > >bill.sloman(a)ieee.org wrote: > >> Phat Bytestard wrote: >> > On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:17:36 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" >> > <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> Gave us: >> > >> > >Eeyore wrote: >> > >> >> > >> bill.sloman(a)ieee.org wrote: >> > >> >> > >> > Michael A. Terrell wrote: >> > >> > > Jim Thompson wrote: >> > >> > Obviously too many head shots. >> >> This is field-hockey, not ice-hockey, as I've already mentioned > >I've had some balls fly pretty damn close to my head though ! --- You're a trapeze artist then, are you? -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer |