re: Help with history.

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re: Help with history.

ER — 4/8/2007 10:28:22 PM (archived)

Perhaps not strictly analogous, but you might want to read up on the annihilation of the British occupation of Afghanistan in the mid-nineteenth century (not just defeat, it was a total annihilation).

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Help with history. - Bowser - 4/8/2007 3:06:22 PM
- Did you know Alexander is credited with inventing the wristwatch? - ER - 4/9/2007 1:56:45 PM
  - I guess no one's gonna bite. - ER - 4/10/2007 12:56:41 AM
    - AARRGH!! *whimper* :-) (n/t) - McFly - 4/11/2007 8:48:45 PM
    - That's funny. However, wristwatches were a reality. - Bowser - 4/10/2007 10:34:14 PM
      - re: That's funny. However, wristwatches were a reality. - ER - 4/11/2007 12:32:45 AM
        
        Visiting a clock and watch museum yesterday... - Mary Anne - 4/11/2007 1:35:19 PM
        
        The sun doesn't always rise due east... - ER - 4/11/2007 9:07:16 PM
        
        I told the guide your joke. - Mary Anne - 4/11/2007 9:18:30 PM
        
        re: I told the guide your joke. - ER - 4/11/2007 10:22:23 PM
    - MODERATOR: THIS IS A BANNING OFFENSE!!! - ARRELL - 4/10/2007 2:30:00 AM
      - Who is Spider Robinson? (Honest!) (n/t) - ER - 4/10/2007 4:49:40 AM
        
        ER, you have got to be kidding - RNE - 4/11/2007 4:59:19 PM
        
        RNE, We cant judge him- but he cannot be allowed to post until he reads 'callahans cross time saloon' - R.L. - 4/11/2007 6:53:44 PM
        
        A very good science fiction writer. - TB - 4/10/2007 5:51:41 AM
        
        Feghoot rings a bell, - ER - 4/10/2007 1:30:46 PM
        
        As for the others... - TB - 4/10/2007 9:59:06 PM
        
        re: Feghoot - TB - 4/10/2007 9:56:54 PM
        
        The Art of the Pun--cultural or linguistic artifact?--Yo! Mary Anne! - ER - 4/11/2007 12:21:50 AM
        
        Probably not cultural - Mary Anne - 4/11/2007 1:18:57 PM
        
        I know from deaf relatives that there are many sign language puns. - TB - 4/11/2007 8:42:48 PM
        
        re: Probably not cultural - ER - 4/11/2007 5:35:48 PM
      - A truly great pun must be protested - ARRELL - 4/10/2007 2:33:41 AM
  - Did anyone catch the show about Caligula's pleasure ships? - Lee - 4/9/2007 7:36:13 PM
    - Alexander the Great did invent the inflatable raft - . - 4/10/2007 3:25:47 PM
- Alexander the Great - ER - 4/8/2007 11:12:52 PM
  - Alexander the Great coins - Bowser - 4/9/2007 1:02:02 AM
    - re: Alexander the Great coins - ER - 4/9/2007 1:21:58 AM
      - It was part of the Seleucid Empire. - Lee - 4/9/2007 4:59:56 AM
      - Coins and writing. - Bowser - 4/9/2007 1:59:36 AM
- re: Help with history. - ER - 4/8/2007 10:28:22 PM
  - Afghanistan. - Bowser - 4/8/2007 10:40:08 PM
    - What do civilized people want with the place anyway? - . - 4/10/2007 3:30:10 PM
      - We don't "want" Afghanistan. - TB - 4/10/2007 10:04:06 PM
      - re: What do civilized people want with the place anyway? - ER - 4/10/2007 8:14:32 PM

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