#57622
02/18/2002 8:24 PM
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The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#57623
02/18/2002 8:40 PM
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hehehe... thanks for the laffs, CapK.
I love this bit of Brit understatement:
The British Ministry of
Defence said it was a
situation it would "rather
not have taken place".
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#57624
02/18/2002 9:19 PM
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Dear CK: start a collection to buy the Royal Marines a couple dozen GPS units.
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#57625
02/18/2002 9:24 PM
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"rather not have taken place"
Boy, howdy! I'd sure like to see me the whole quote and not just only this exerp. I'm having me some trouble tryin to figger out how this ain' passive.
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#57626
02/18/2002 10:48 PM
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member
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Aaaah, the MOD - always the masters of the glorious British understatement!
So timely as well, seeing as how we're about to start arguing over who owns Gibraltar anyway!
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#57627
02/19/2002 12:03 AM
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#57628
02/19/2002 12:05 AM
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#57629
02/19/2002 9:15 AM
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According to The Independent, a corporal on the landing craft said "The mistake was caused by the most dangerous thing in the world - an officer with a map."
You just gotta love these squaddies, doncha?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#57630
02/19/2002 9:32 AM
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Today, the Royal Marines invaded Spain at La Linea. Twenty of them off one landing craft. The invasion was fearlessly repelled by two local policemen, who also pointed out that they should have turned left instead of right before rushing the beaches.
And this is the nation which colonised half the known world?? Explains a lot.
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#57631
02/19/2002 11:01 AM
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Kiwi, I'm giggling helplessly. Thank you. "The mistake was caused by the most dangerous thing in the world - an officer with a map."Sounds pretty much like cross-county driving tirps in the keiva family. 
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#57632
02/19/2002 12:11 PM
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old hand
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Come on now Guys, it was just a honest mistake. It could happened to anyone, not just the Brits. You know- like the Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges or the Keystone Kops. (This is the first time I've used this acronym) RITFLMAO
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#57633
02/19/2002 12:15 PM
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just a honest mistake
Yeahbut©, if the Marx Brothers had done it they would have known perfectly well what they were doing.
And if it had been a mistake it wouldn't have been an honest one
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#57634
02/19/2002 12:22 PM
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Almost as good as the Kiwi trip..."shuffling off to Buffalo!"
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#57635
02/19/2002 12:36 PM
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Them brits are navigationally-challenged, it would seem. 
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#57636
02/19/2002 2:27 PM
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journeyman
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quote from the guardian...........
The marines beat a hasty retreat and went off to find the real Gibraltar. this, locals observed, was easily recognisable because it had a 1,398 ft high rock sticking out of it.
a German officer said after the battle of the Somme in 1916 "the british are Lions, ..........led by Donkeys"
depressingly little has changed the class system is alive and kicking in the British Army.
the Duncster
the Duncster
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#57637
02/19/2002 2:40 PM
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it had a 1,398 ft high rock sticking out of it
There's the problem, right there! The Royal Marines, being good Euronators, were thinking in metric and couldn't make the conversion to metres[sic].
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#57638
02/19/2002 5:08 PM
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FoxNews just scrolled this across the bottom of the screen: British Military Apologizes for Accidentally Invading Spain... Sounds like an old Monty Python or Firesign Theatre routine!
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#57639
02/19/2002 7:46 PM
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Well ... remember the old Monty Python line, "Aha, NO one expects the Spanish Inquisition!". Well, now it's "Aha, NO one expects the British inhibition!".
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#57640
02/19/2002 7:48 PM
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Bring on the Malvinas!!
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#57641
02/19/2002 7:51 PM
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Malvinas
At least with Spain they (more or less) agree on the name.
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#57642
02/19/2002 11:05 PM
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