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Quote of the Week
18th Week
Praise be to the Lord, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield in which I
take refuge, who subdues people under me.
psalm 144
Submitted by Johnno March 26
(Votes 5 out of 11)(2)
 17th
Weeks Winner
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most
men dread it."
-George Bernard Shaw
Submitted by DocSlaughter March 19
(Votes 10 out of 34)(4)
16th Weeks Winner
" I have not failed i've just found 10,000 ways that wont work."
Thomas Alva Edison 1847-1931
Submitted by Kain March 11/01
(Votes 14 out of 22)(5)
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15th Weeks Winner
They've got us surronded.... the poor bastards.
Quoted by a medic in the 101st airborne at Bastogne
Submitted by Mudslime March 03/01
(Votes 21 out of 35)(1)
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14th Weeks Winner
"Never mistake motion for action"
Ernest Hemingway 1889-1961
(Submitted by Kain February 26)(4)
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13th Weeks Winner
" How can i lose to such an idiot? "
Aaron Nimzovich 1886-1935
(Submitted by Kain February 11)(3)
Congratulations Kain!
For his continued submissions Kain has won 3
times and has been awarded the Smartie Doggie Medal.
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12th Weeks Winner
"If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of
those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they
are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them." - Jack Handey
(Submitted by Joeski February 4) (1)
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11th Weeks Winner
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this
dist..."
General John B. Sedgwick Last words at the Battle of Spotsylvania, VA (May 9,1864)
(submitted by Stryker
January 31) (1)
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10th Weeks Winner
Some people drink from the fountain of
life,....others just rinse and spit"
-Unknown
(submitted by DocSlaughter January
22)(3)
Congratulations DocSlaughter!
For his continued submissions DocSlaughter
has won 3 times and has been awarded the Smartie Doggie Medal.
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9th Weeks Winner
"We are not retreating--We are advancing in another direction"
Gen. Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
(submitted by Kain January 14)(2)
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8th Weeks Winner
"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us,
they're behind us... they can't get away this time." - Lieutenant General Lewis
B."Chesty" Puller (when surrounded by 8 enemy divisions)
(submitted by Stryker January 09)(1)
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7th Weeks Winner
" Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
(submitted by Kain January 02)(1)
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6th Weeks Winner
"If Hitler were to invade Hell, I would find occasion to
make a favorable
reference to the devil."
-Winston Churchill
(submitted by DocSlaughter December 27) (2)
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5th Weeks Winner
"The Ten Commandments must be silent when self-preservation is at stake"
- Unknown Source
(submitted by DocSlaughter December 18)
(1)
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4th Weeks Winner
A Few of Murphy's Combat Laws.
1. You are not a superman.
2. If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
3. Don't look conspicuous-it draws fire.
4. When in doubt, empty your magazine.
5. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.
(submitted by Dazooz December 9) (1)
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3rd Weeks Winner
"When I hear the word Culture, I reach for my revolver."
- Herman Goring (submitted by
Sharpie Nov 27) (2)
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2nd Weeks Winner
"It's not that I'm afraid of dying, it's just that I don't want to be there
when it happens."
-Woody Allan (submitted by Sharpie November 19) (1)
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1st Weeks Winner
"I like a man who grins when he fights."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
(submitted by Johnno November 11) (1)
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Past Weeks Quotes
"Goddam it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow
me!"
- Captain Henry P. "Jim" Crowe (Guadalcanal, January 13, 1943)
Submitted by Johnno March 26
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I want to see you shoot the way you shout
-Theodore Roosevelt
Submitted by DocSalughter March 28
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It’s better to be killed than be frightened to death.
-Robert Smith
Submitted by DocSalughter March 28
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"Look, all I know is what they taught me at
command school. There are certain rules about a war and rule number one is young men die.
And rule number two is doctors can't change rule number one."
Henry Blake (4077th M.A.S.H)
Submitted by Johnno March 18
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"We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the
rear"
Frank Burns (4077th M.A.S.H)
Submitted by Johnno March 18
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Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It
made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to
pass it on - Terry Pratchett
Submitted by Fighting Kelpie March 18
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"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
- Bill Gates 1981
Submitted by DocSlaughter March 19
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Sucess is never final; Failure is never
fatal; It's courage that
counts.
-Winston Churchill
(Submitted by DocSlaughter February 26)
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
-Moliere
(Submitted by DocSlaughter February 26)
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"A chicken could not live on that field when we open
on it." Col. Alexander to Gen. Longstreet describing
the position of his Confederate artillery on Marye's
Heights before Fredericksburg.
(Submitted by Longstreet February 11)
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"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of
sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions." - De Foe
(Submitted by Dazooz February 11)
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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker
will be sorry.
Mark Twain.
1835-1910
(Submitted by DocSlaughter February 11)
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"It's snowing still. And
freezing. However, we haven't had an earthquake lately"
-Winnie the Pooh
(Submitted by DocSlaughter February 4)
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" It's not the size of the dog in the fight, It's the
size of the fight in
the dog."
Mark Twain 1835-1910
(Submitted by Kain February 4)
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"There is one great thing that you men will all be able
to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty
years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and
he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to
the other knee and say, "Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana." No,
Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, "Son, your Granddaddy rode with
the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-Goddamned-Bitch named Georgie Patton!" - General
George S. Patton, Jr (addressing to his troops before Operation Overlord, June 5, 1944)
(Submitted by Stryker February 4)
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Awake,arouse, Sir Johnny,
There's forage in the plain.
Ah, leave your little Filly
And open the campaign
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"There will be a time when loudmouthed, incompetent
people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient
and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails."
Richard Rybolt
(submitted by Kain January 28)
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"Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of
destruction, we should be thinking about getting more use out of the ones we already
have." - Jack Handey
(submitted by Joeski January 28)
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My center gives way, my right is pushed back, situation
excellent, I am attacking.
Ferdinand Foch
(submitted by Snoop January 28)
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"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with
firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are
in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the
battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and
cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all
nations." - Abraham Lincoln
(submitted by Dazooz January 28)
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"The mistakes are all waiting to be made"
Chess Master SAVIELLY GRIGORIEVITCH TARTAKOWER 1887-1956
(submitted by Kain January 21)
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"If you will resist and not yield, that Resistance
should be effectual at the Beginning. If you think ten thousand Men sufficient, send
Twenty, if one Million [in pounds sterling] is thought enough, give two, you will save
both blood and treasure at the end."
- Sir Thomas Gage
(submitted by BroRudy January 21)
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"You can't say civilizations isn't advancing; in every
war they kill you in a new way"
Will Rogers
(submitted by Kilroy January 21)
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to
live."
-Martin Luther King Jr
(submitted by DocSlaughter January
16)
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"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger,
but in seeing it, and
conquering it." - Richter
(submitted by Dazooz January 15)
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"Keep your friends close. Keeper your enemies
closer." Unknown
(submitted by Longstreet January 14)
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"Many died of hunger; the number is not known yet but
it was over sixty."
The Jesuit _Journals_ on de Courcelle's ill fated January 1666 march into
New York. A first hand account states over 400 men dropped dead form cold.
(submitted by Kimble January 16)
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Go, sir, gallop, and don't forget that the world was made in
six days. You can ask me for anything you like, except time.
Napoleon Bonaparte
(submitted by Snoop January 17)
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"Now the general who wins a battle makes many
calculations in his temple ere
the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few
calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory and few
calculations to defeat. How much more no calculation at all."
-Peacocks principles of war
(submitted by Kain January 07)
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"Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of
destruction, we should be thinking about getting more use out of the ones we already
have." - Jack Handey
(submitted by Joeski Jan07/01)
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"Every dog must have his day." - Swift
(submitted by Dazooz Jan08/01)
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"A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of
dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear
that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby." - Jack Handey
(submitted by Joeski Jan08/01)
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"We will fight you in the air, the land and the sea, we
will never
surrender"
- Winston Churchill
(submitted by Kilroy Jan09/01)
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To the last, I will grapple with thee!
From hell's heart, I stab at thee!!!!
For Hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!!!
Khan from Star Trek II - the Wrath of Khan
(submitted by Chairman Jan09/01)
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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be
fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert Einstein
(submitted by Johnno December 26)
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The More I see of man, the more I like Dogs.
-Unknown
(submitted by DocSlaughter December 27)
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More of Murphy's Combat Laws
6. Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
7. If your attack is going really well, it's an ambush.
8. Try to look unimportant because the bad guys may be low on ammo.
9. If you are forward of your position, the artillery will fall short.
10. The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack.
(submitted by Dazooz December 17)
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Still More Murphy's Combat Laws
11. The important things are always simple.
12. The simple things are always hard.
13. The easy way is always mined.
14. If you are short of everything except enemy, you are in combat.
15. When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the enemy.
(submitted by Dazooz on December 26)
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"Come the millennium, month 12,
In the home of greatest power,
The village idiot will come forth
To be acclaimed the leader."
Nostradamus, 1555
(submitted by Maximus December 18)
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"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining."
-Paul Newman in Cool hand Luke
(submitted by
I'll try,try try....till I blow your house down( from
the story...three little piggys)
BroRudy
(submitted by BroRudy December 18)
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"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
You win the war, by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country!"
- George Patton (subitted by Guzzlebock December 11)
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And the Lord spoke, saying, "First shalt thou take out
the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number
thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not
count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right
out! Once the number three, being the third number be reached, thou shalt lobbest
thou Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall
snuff it."The holy book of armaments, psalm 3 verse 12.
-Monty Python's Holy Grail (submitted
by Reddogg December 9)
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“It is pitiful that so many young men die in battle, but
more of them die in
automobile accidents than in war, and many of them riot and rot for lack of
discipline; they need an outlet for their combativeness, their
adventurousness, their weariness with prosaic routine; if they must die
sooner or later why not let them die for their country in the anesthesia of
battle and the aura of glory”
-Taken from The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant (submitted by DocSlaughter December 9)
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"If a Nation train’s a body of men to the standard
of an Elite fighting force, this nation must expect these men to kill if provoked."
-unknown (submitted by Sharpie December 9)
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" I love it, I love it more than my life"
- George C. Scott in Patton
(submitted by Kilroy Nov28)
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"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if
they have ever made a difference in the world, but the
Marines don't have that problem."
-Ronald Reagan (submitted by Chairman Nov 29)
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"If you are a Republican under 30 you have no heart! If you are not a Republican and
over 30, you have no brain!"
- Winston Churchill (submitted by Ayers Nov 30)
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"We're not gonna just shoot the bastards, we're gonna cut out their living guts, and
use them to grease the treads of our tanks."
"We're going to murder those lousey hun bastards by the bushel!"
"The Nazis are the enemy, wade into them, spill their blood, shoot them in the
belly!"
"We are not holding our position, let the hun do that. We are advancing
constantly, we are not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy."
"We're gonna hold onto him by the nose, and we're gonna kick him in the ass!
We're gonna kick the hell out of him all the time, and we're going to go through him like
crap through a goose!"
- George S Patton (submitted by Maximus Nov 30)
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"Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a
mighty endeavor...
"Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to
their hearts, steadfastness in their faith...
"These men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the
lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to
liberate...They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the
haven of home.
"Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and recieve them, Thy
heroic servants, into Thy kingdom...
"And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons;
faith in each other...Thy will be done, Almighty God. Amen."
-Franklin Roosevelt. New York
Times, June 7, 1944 (submitted by Dazooz Nov29)
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What's the difference between the U.S. Army and the Cubscouts?
Cubscouts don't have heavy artillery.
-Robin Williams from Good Morning
Vietnam (submitted by Johnno November 19)
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Blessed be the Lord my strength who teaches my hands to war
and my fingers to fight.
- Private Jackson;the snipers prayer from Saving Private
Ryan.(submitted by Johnno November 19)
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