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Old 09-28-2010, 10:34 AM
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Decimated means " to reduce by 10%. "
Maybe his Beyer might be decimated.

If you pretended to not know what 'crossed the rubicon' meant - how can you be such a stickler with decimated.

Decimated sounds violent. It's a good sounding word in my book.
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Old 09-28-2010, 10:36 AM
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Maybe his Beyer might be decimated.

If you pretended to not know what 'crossed the rubicon' meant - how can you be such a stickler with decimated.

Decimated sounds violent. It's a good sounding word in my book.
For what it's worth, the obsolete definition of decimated is to reduce by 10%. The first result when you look is: to destroy a great number or proportion of.

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Old 09-28-2010, 12:05 PM
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For what it's worth, the obsolete definition of decimated is to reduce by 10%. The first result when you look is: to destroy a great number or proportion of.

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It was an old school military tactic. I liked to read about Julius Caesar when I was a boy. I loved the way 'Art of War' was written. Huge fan of Hannibal and Atilla the Hun. Loved the story of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae before Hollywood gay'd it up with that horrid movie. Romance of the Three Kingdoms was my favorite video game series.

I can imagine no place in history that would have been more fun to be than in winning gear right after one of those ancient wars - all set to rape and pillage. I can imagine no place more miserable in history than to be fighting on either side before or during the war.

Something tells me that if I was around in those days, I'd figure out a super sneaky way to jump in with the winning side right as they cross the wire.
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Old 09-28-2010, 12:13 PM
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It was an old school military tactic. I liked to read about Julius Caesar when I was a boy. I loved the way 'Art of War' was written. Huge fan of Hannibal and Atilla the Hun. Loved the story of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae before Hollywood gay'd it up with that horrid movie. Romance of the Three Kingdoms was my favorite video game series.

I can imagine no place in history that would have been more fun to be than in winning gear right after one of those ancient wars - all set to rape and pillage. I can imagine no place more miserable in history than to be fighting on either side before or during the war.

Something tells me that if I was around in those days, I'd figure out a super sneaky way to jump in with the winning side right as they cross the wire.
What in the h*ll is wrong with you?!?
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Old 09-28-2010, 12:29 PM
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Just because such behavior isn't acceptable by society anymore doesn't mean it wouldn't have been fun.
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Old 09-28-2010, 12:38 PM
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Old 09-28-2010, 12:43 PM
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If more muslims were reported to look like this ....




I'd have signed up for the war and taken my chances with a whole lot of things.
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Old 09-28-2010, 12:45 PM
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If more muslims were reported to look like this ....




I'd have signed up for the war and taken my chances with a whole lot of things.
Used to go to school in Manhattan with quite a few. They look like that. Lots of them.
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You just never know where threads here will end up...








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It was an old school military tactic. I liked to read about Julius Caesar when I was a boy. I loved the way 'Art of War' was written. Huge fan of Hannibal and Atilla the Hun. Loved the story of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae before Hollywood gay'd it up with that horrid movie. Romance of the Three Kingdoms was my favorite video game series.

I can imagine no place in history that would have been more fun to be than in winning gear right after one of those ancient wars - all set to rape and pillage. I can imagine no place more miserable in history than to be fighting on either side before or during the war.

Something tells me that if I was around in those days, I'd figure out a super sneaky way to jump in with the winning side right as they cross the wire.
Yeah.

Guadacanal and Okinawa seemed pretty miserable to me though.

110 to 115 degrees, 100% humidity and thousands upon thousands of rotting bodies. No supplies to keep you fed and hydrated too.
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