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Re: BCM:G is a Whole New Title!

#93808
From: Lemming
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:51
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Bret Ripley <rip...@olywa.net> wrote:

>In article <dbkh8vorfmqlrvd9p...@4ax.com>, 
>l3m...@bumblbee.demon.co.uk says...
>> "FLY135" <FLY...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >"Lemming" <l3m...@bumblbee.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>> >news:qfbd8vc5r59ost4g33hlimfbgmhemp1j6p@4ax.com...
>> >>
>> >> I still think he's Derek.
>> >>
>> >
>> >He can't be Derek because he's mostly right.
>> 
>> But ... Derek always was "mostly right".  It was just that when he is
>> wrong, he is so spectacularly wrong.  That's what makes him so much
>> fun.
>> 
>> I bet he even thinks the "War Against Iraq" is a good idea.
>
>It's *not* the "War Against Iraq," genius-boy.  It's "Operation Iraqi 
>Freedom."  Lots of time and effort has gone into this title -- the least 
>you could do it try to remember it.  Hell, we even had posters and 
>special stationery printed.

Noted.  I'll try to remember next time.  But since I'm a fuddle-headed
surrender monkey with a brain the size of a peanut, it'll be hard.  

Where was I?

>> I wonder where he'll be in the "War Against Syria".
>
>That'll be a tough sell.  "Operation Syriaqi Freedom" would have low 
>brand-name recognition.  Also, "Syria" sounds kinda like 'syrup' . . . 
>just not evil enough.  Do you think we could get them to change their 
>name to something like "Nazi Germany?"

That might work.

-- 
Lemming

Curiosity *may* have killed Schrödinger's cat.
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From: Lemming <l3m...@bumblbee.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim
Subject: Re: BCM:G is a Whole New Title!
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 23:51:48 +0100
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