jlrogers wrote:

Don't know your history, do you? Or your fairy tales either.

I know *my* history - which particular history am I lacking in this
context? There are literally billions of histories I know nothing about.

And which fairy tales? You may be aware of a book by L Frank Baum called
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", which isn't a fairy tale, it's a novel.
A political satire quite pertinent to the current political situation in
the US, but as a reference to rigged voting maybe a little obscure.

Perhaps you're referring to Dorothy's red shoes?

--
Pd

Its all about the bimetallic dollar. Marcus Hanna, and Eastern financier, was the "Wizard
of the Gold Ounce"

"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not
crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
William Jennings Bryan

http://home.earthlink.net/~jcorbally/eng218/rcross.html

-j

"PeterD" wrote in message
lid...
jlrogers wrote:

Don't know your history, do you? Or your fairy tales either.

I know *my* history - which particular history am I lacking in this
context? There are literally billions of histories I know nothing about.

And which fairy tales? You may be aware of a book by L Frank Baum called
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", which isn't a fairy tale, it's a novel.
A political satire quite pertinent to the current political situation in
the US, but as a reference to rigged voting maybe a little obscure.

Perhaps you're referring to Dorothy's red shoes?

--
Pd

For those of you who, like me, were amazed to learn that the US Navy
ships can be left dead in the water


Back in the 70's the ship I was on spent three days guarding a Destroyer
Escort that had gone dead in the water and was drifting about in the Med.
Towards the end of the first day big smoke columns appeared on the horizon.
It was three Soviet Osa class gunboats that surrounded us. The next two days
were spent watching our whaleboat weave in and out of the gunboats, the
gunboats trying to run over the whaleboat, deck guns moving about, M14's
pointed all over the place, in all a real good time.
The ship got going on its own and about one month later was intentionally
rammed by a Soviet sub. Ah, the good old daze!

Most unlikely -the intentional bit.

Cheers MC

Gilligan wrote:



about one month later was intentionally
rammed by a Soviet sub. Ah, the good old daze!

Here's an account of the incident with photos of the collision taking place.
I was on the Moinester.

http://www.usni.org/hrp/Train.htm

Do you still think it was unintentional?


"The_navigator_©" wrote in message
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Most unlikely -the intentional bit.

Cheers MC

Gilligan wrote:



about one month later was intentionally
rammed by a Soviet sub. Ah, the good old daze!

"PeterD" wrote in message
lid...

Perhaps you're referring to Dorothy's red shoes?

Her slippers were silver in the book, not ruby.

they wrote a book and got the color of the slippers wrong? Sheeesh

SV


"Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote

Perhaps you're referring to Dorothy's red shoes?

Her slippers were silver in the book, not ruby.