Search Forum Home   Starfist: Main  Starfist 11: Flashfire  Nuts!!...  Re: Nuts!!   Finucane 1932 posts Joined 1/25/2006 Re: Nuts!! Posted: 03 Nov 06 5:11 AM Do not forget, gentlemen, it is OUR universe and if we want the characters to remember slang that was current in the 20th century, they WILL and no damned arguments! DavidS 988 posts www.novelier.com Joined 1/23/2006 Re: Nuts!! Posted: 03 Nov 06 3:09 PM  Finucane wrote MC: Good points. We just didn't think of McAuliffe's reply to the Germans at Bastogne or we'd have used it! And you bet, Lyons would've known just what "Nuts!" meant, any professional soldier would recognize the famous reply even 400 years after it was given. Stuff like that just doesn't get forgotten once it's in the books. We still remember Leonidas's reply to Xerexes' demand that the Spartans at Thermopylae give up their arms, "Then come and get them!" or the Spartan Dienekes' comment when informed that the Persian arrows would blot out the sun: "Good! Then we can fight in the shade!" And who can forget Chesty Puller's response when told his regiment was surrounded by the Chinese at Koto-ri? "Good, we've got them right where we want them--now we can shoot in all directions!" Teufel Panzer MK4 1037 posts Joined 7/1/2006 Re: Nuts!! Posted: 03 Nov 06 10:55 PM Ah, yes. Good old morbid humor. Where'd we be without it, neh? Finucane 1932 posts Joined 1/25/2006 Re: Nuts!! Posted: 04 Nov 06 5:21 AM Who cares?  In another 50 years (much sooner than that for some of us!) we'll all be dead. armyblank 200 posts Joined 10/22/2006 Re: Nuts!! Posted: 04 Nov 06 5:30 PM and why bother mowing the lawn it will just grow back?   Come on Dan take a happy pill and go enjoy life.  Page 3 of 4 Previous1234Next    Starfist: Main  Starfist 11: Flashfire  Nuts!!... Flat View Tree View Oldest To Newest Newest To Oldest