Date: 23/01/2016 15:55:22
From: bob(from black rock)
ID: 835259
Subject: I wonder if any are still alive?

Never before In the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill, after the “‘Battle of Britton”

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Date: 23/01/2016 16:00:50
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 835261
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

We are all made of atomic particles.
we move around in electrochemical bodies
on a chemical planet made of atomic particles

atomic articles don’t die,
they continue to exist
in an expanding universe

thats something to wonder about

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Date: 23/01/2016 16:09:38
From: bob(from black rock)
ID: 835262
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

CrazyNeutrino said:


We are all made of atomic particles.
we move around in electrochemical bodies
on a chemical planet made of atomic particles

atomic articles don’t die,
they continue to exist
in an expanding universe

thats something to wonder about

OK, have they stopped shooting at each other?

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Date: 23/01/2016 16:17:57
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 835266
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

bob(from black rock) said:


CrazyNeutrino said:

We are all made of atomic particles.
we move around in electrochemical bodies
on a chemical planet made of atomic particles

atomic articles don’t die,
they continue to exist
in an expanding universe

thats something to wonder about

OK, have they stopped shooting at each other?

One cannot control the whole.

Something else to wonder about.

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Date: 23/01/2016 16:21:19
From: Bubblecar
ID: 835267
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

There were at least six Battle of Britain pilots left as of September last year, maybe more.

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Date: 23/01/2016 16:27:11
From: roughbarked
ID: 835268
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

Bubblecar said:


There were at least six Battle of Britain pilots left as of September last year, maybe more.


Thiamethoxam will fix them.

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Date: 23/01/2016 17:48:07
From: wookiemeister
ID: 835278
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

Bubblecar said:


There were at least six Battle of Britain pilots left as of September last year, maybe more.



that looks like Westminster abbey

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Date: 23/01/2016 17:49:33
From: Neophyte
ID: 835279
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

Bubblecar said:


There were at least six Battle of Britain pilots left as of September last year, maybe more.


Not many planes left, either.

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Date: 23/01/2016 18:14:30
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 835281
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

Not many planes left, either.

gott im himmel!

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Date: 23/01/2016 18:20:56
From: Neophyte
ID: 835282
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

ChrispenEvan said:


Not many planes left, either.

gott im himmel!

These verdammt Tommies fight like der Teufel

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Date: 23/01/2016 18:22:59
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 835283
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

the good old commando comics etc.

:-)

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Date: 23/01/2016 18:52:28
From: Bubblecar
ID: 835288
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Date: 23/01/2016 19:04:55
From: Bubblecar
ID: 835289
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Date: 23/01/2016 19:45:56
From: sibeen
ID: 835290
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

Bubblecar said:



I too learnt German from those comics of the 60s. :)

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Date: 23/01/2016 19:55:30
From: sibeen
ID: 835291
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

Just looked up the Commando comics on wiki and was surprised to find that they are still going.

This bit tickled my fancy:

“In June 2013, it was announced that Commando Comics, whilst still owned by D C Thomson based in Dundee, would now be printed by GGP Media in Germany.”

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Date: 23/01/2016 20:02:44
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 835292
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

Latest video from library.
“Oh! What a lovely war”
Subtitled “a savage satirical sideswipe at the mismanagement and waste of life”.

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Date: 23/01/2016 20:23:50
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 835297
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

Dilbert on Retirement

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Date: 23/01/2016 21:27:29
From: wookiemeister
ID: 835306
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

Bubblecar said:




that looks like a tiger

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Date: 23/01/2016 21:28:11
From: wookiemeister
ID: 835307
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

mollwollfumble said:


Latest video from library.
“Oh! What a lovely war”
Subtitled “a savage satirical sideswipe at the mismanagement and waste of life”.


probably the best WW1 film there ever was

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Date: 23/01/2016 21:31:45
From: wookiemeister
ID: 835308
Subject: re: I wonder if any are still alive?

Two Men Went to War

Two Men Went to War is a 2002 British film based on a true World War II story, from Raymond Foxall’s book Amateur Commandos which describes the adventures of two army dental corps soldiers who sneak off on their own personal invasion of France. The film was directed by John Henderson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_King_%28British_Army_officer%29

King was so frustrated that he and another soldier, Pte Leslie Cuthbertson, then 20 and from Newcastle-upon-Tyne took matters in their own hands; they planned and executed an unofficial and unauthorised raid on occupied France.

In April 1942, the two men stole weapons and grenades and also a motor-boat from the south west of England. They landed in France, where they attempted to cut a railway line using a hand grenade, among other activities. After three days, King and Cuthbertson stole a French motor boat to return to England. This failed and they were adrift in the Channel for twelve days until picked up by an Air Sea Rescue Service launch. They were initially treated as spies.

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