Firefly

He was probably the reason for 'his difficulty with the process'.

Aren't you confusing him with Wilson? Michael </font>

Actually I read somewhere that his nickname was 'Jumbo', but when asked he would never explain why. I'll leave it to the forum to draw their own conclusions.

I just realised that we missed this thread's first birthday. We could have had a party.

Dempsey

I was using the Dutch spelling, which White also does .

I also saw mention of something similar in Peter White's 'With the Jocks'. White, an officer in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, tells of an instance during tha landings on Walchern island, where he was supervising the landing of equipment and evacuation of the wounded, when a carrier driver constantly came under sniper fire in his trips to and from the front line. Finally getting fed up with this the driver dismounted and shot the sniper, only to find it was a women. White says it was not clear if she was German army or a civilian collaborator.

I'm not a fan of Manchester United, but I don't think they're up to funny things in Iraq. Keep the loony political theories in the General Forum where they belong. I've been enjoying the stuff on armour penetration though.

Hey, Prince, you need a shave.

*Sigh* and this thread showed such promise. We'd nearly neatly diverted it into a discussion of the works of James Joyce, their influence on contemporary literature and weapons theory and men with smoking thingies; then what happens? The bloody gnome gets unbanned, that's what happens. BFC fix etc.

He's clearly been reading some of the steamier passages of Mr. Joyce's books.

I thought you were the No Food Death of the Universe.

I thought alt.side.skirts was one of those strange Usenet groups.

You obviously haven't reached the bit with Panzerkleins. Men walking around in a suit of armour that can't be penetrated by a panzerschreck stretch my suspension of disbelief, not to mention ruining the play balance. [ April 07, 2004, 11:03 AM: Message edited by: Firefly ]

Wow! That Fiefdom thread must have got nasty since I last checked it.

Well the last time I checked, Italians, Rumanians and Germans spoke different languages . Your point about the SS though does suggest that special cases can be made, perhaps SS fanbois outnumber Commonwealth fanbois.

I doubt it's poor resarch, after all this analomy (as well as the one where battalion commanders have to be majors) was brought to BFC's attention back in the CMBO days, which is, I believe, where Michael E. remembers the 'engine limitation' explanation from. I don't have access to the CM source code, of course, but I suspect the internal tables of rank are language-based rather than nationality-based. You need someone from BFC to confirm this though.

The secret to a happy life on the GF is to extract the urine from everyone. The fun part is that half of the dim buggers are too stupid/FOS to notice.

Remind me to avoid Canadian restaurants.

Oh yeah, Happy Birthday to YK2 for yesterday, if she's still reading.

How did your fist get so big? Mace </font>

I think it was produced for all those people who complain that playing the AI is too easy .

Deleted, as Rune came up with a bettter answer.

At least he didn't give you air support.

Aussie journalist, Clive James, once remaked that the hardest thing when he first came to Britain was adjusting to life in a country where the flora and fauna weren't actively trying to kill you.