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Zealot The Crazy Lui wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:03:21 +1200, Spyderizer <n...@spam.com> wrote:
>> Sit back and hear ye a tale...
> 
> Oooh! A storyteller... go on.
> 
>> Once upon a time there there were two countries on opposite sides of the 
>> Tasman Sea. These countries were at war, but not with each other. New 
>> Zealand and Australia were working together in order to help shoot 
>> Turkish people, as was the done thing at the time.
> 
> Why Turkey?
> 
>> The ANZACs, or Australian and New Zealand Army Corps were to be dropped 
>> on a Turkish beach at Gallipoli but thanks to British incompetence found 
>> themselves dropped off under a cliff right under Turkish defenses.
> 
> They probably did it on purpose as a joke...
> 
>> ANZAC day is basically a memorial service for the lives lost and serves 
>> as a reminder why old people hate the British.
> 
> Sounds good.... I guess.


You may wish to rent "Gallipoli" and your friendly local neighborhood 
video store.  Tough to watch if you care about people getting chopped to 
shreds because of incompetent war planning.  Though as I think about it, 
I'm reminded of another hair-brained, poorly planned military adventure 
currently underway.

You may also want to search "Gallipoli" in Wikipedia for a quick and 
dirty approach if you can't tolerate sitting still long enough to watch 
the movie.

You may also want to read Kipling's "The Light that Failed" as a 
Colonial-Romantic view of Great Britain's efforts in that geo-political 
arena ("There's always war in the Balkans" I believe one character says).

TS