Hey, I didn’t say it – that’s a newspaper headline. See link below.
Makes you think though about all the debate on Holywood rewriting British history
By: JDK - 25th August 2004 at 09:11
Comes under the heading of “Ask a stupid question to get an article for a bunch of hacks…”
By: John Boyle - 24th August 2004 at 23:44
This same article was the basis of a post a couple of weks ago…perhaps on the :”General Discussion” board….so I’ll repeat here what I said there..
“You mean Duke Ellington didn’t defeat the French at Waterloo?”
I’ll wait for the laughter to subside…:)
By: Corsair166b - 24th August 2004 at 22:59
Yeah…they got the Gandalf in question all wrong…it was Gandalf the WHITE, not Gandalf the grey that won Pearl Harbor and B of B and such…Gandalf the Grey did’nt have the power that Gandalf the white had…
Wish these stupid polls would get their facts right….
Mark
By: crazymainer - 24th August 2004 at 22:52
“hagus”
Der,
Bloody Hell I’m sorry can you please find in your heart to forgive this poor Yank. 😮 😀
Cheers Crazymainer
By: Der - 24th August 2004 at 21:15
Well, if his Scottish accent in that film is anything to go by, he clearly didn’t eat enough “hagus”!
By: st170dw - 24th August 2004 at 18:17
Just to be a little pedantic:
Mel Gibson was in fact an American Scot!
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born on January 3, 1956, in Peekskill, New York, USA as the sixth of eleven children to parents Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Ann Gibson, who was born in Australia.
By: Moggy C - 24th August 2004 at 07:20
Please send me 100Kilos Of Hagus to eat. 😮
Scotland Forever
Pounds dear boy, pounds.
The haggis can’t be measured in filthy continental kilos 😡
Moggy
It amuses me that one of the best selling clothing items in Oban when I was there a few years back was a T-shirt with the word
FREEDOM!
Emblazoned across it.
Plus a picture of an Australian multi-millionaire who doubtless lives in California. :confused:
By: O.P. - 24th August 2004 at 02:20
That’s incredible….It’s the same way here in the U.S.. Who woulda thunk it, Gandalf didn’t win the Battle of Britian against the Japanese? Comeon…..
Or my all time favorite….
Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!……
No!!
By: skypilot62 - 23rd August 2004 at 23:55
It’s all fairly irrelevant anyway – I read somewhere that 87% of all statistics are made up. 😉
By: Flood - 23rd August 2004 at 23:22
Well – I think the other thing is you get people who take surveys and intentionally give the most ridiculous answers that they can. I know I did that once or twice when I was at school 😉
I’d have to agree – if they didn’t want Gandalf to get votes then they shouldn’t have put him on the questionaire…
Flood
By: crazymainer - 23rd August 2004 at 23:09
Oh Bloody Hell,
Just send me into the woods with my spear and I’ll be OK 😀
By: Merlin3945 - 23rd August 2004 at 22:59
Please send me 100Kilos Of Hagus to eat. 😮
Scotland Forever
Please just give up now first the English thing now Hagus.
A person called Gus laughing????????
Surely you mean Haggis that wonderfully Scottish dish.
It a total bugger trying to shoot one on the hills though and as they have 2 legs longer than the other 2 they can run round hills faster than I can with my 12 bore.
By: RadarArchive - 23rd August 2004 at 22:55
Please send me 100Kilos Of Hagus to eat.
Scotland Forever
Perhaps you should ask your Scottish relatives how to spell haggis? :p
By: crazymainer - 23rd August 2004 at 22:39
My Scottish Realitive are going to Kill Me
Britain, crazmainer, not England. Its one part of the U.K.!
Der,
Sorry about that Since I’m of Scottish Desent, I should be ashamed of myself, :rolleyes:
Please send me 100Kilos Of Hagus to eat. 😮
Scotland Forever
By: Eddie - 23rd August 2004 at 22:34
Well – I think the other thing is you get people who take surveys and intentionally give the most ridiculous answers that they can. I know I did that once or twice when I was at school 😉
By: Der - 23rd August 2004 at 21:37
Hey Dave,
Don’t blame us Yanks for the Social History Books of England.
Besides if you did the same survey he in the States you would get the same results.
Why because the PC Left of the World want everything to sound and look right. 😡
Britain, crazmainer, not England. Its one part of the U.K.!
By: mmitch - 23rd August 2004 at 13:34
Actually Lord Howard lead the fleet. Sir Francis Drake was one of his commanders, another was Hawkins :rolleyes:
mmitch.
By: crazymainer - 23rd August 2004 at 13:21
Don’t blame us Yanks
Hey Dave,
Don’t blame us Yanks for the Social History Books of England.
Besides if you did the same survey he in the States you would get the same results.
Why because the PC Left of the World want everything to sound and look right. 😡
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