04-12-2024, 09:14 AM | #121 |
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I hope there are no guillotines?
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04-12-2024, 06:33 PM | #122 |
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Are not tumbrils and guillotines rather inextricably linked?
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04-13-2024, 10:17 AM | #123 |
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Not if Sir Percy Blakeney is around surely? I do like the Scarlet Pimpernel stories. That’s another wannabe.
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04-13-2024, 05:04 PM | #124 |
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Reminds me of watching Thierry la Fronde when I was a lot younger. One of the few French language programs we watched.
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04-15-2024, 09:04 AM | #125 |
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It apparently popularised the catapult. Now there’s a thing. Good for frightening moggies but never aimed directly at them.
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04-15-2024, 02:57 PM | #126 |
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Fond memories of building a trebuchet in high school. Sadly once the school administrators found out what it's capabilities were, it was dismantled. Looking back, using the goal posts on the school field as a target was not a good idea.
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04-15-2024, 04:23 PM | #127 |
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing. A good job we didn’t have it then otherwise we’d have missed out on all sorts of experiences (usually slightly destructive). We were definitely wannabes!
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04-15-2024, 04:47 PM | #128 |
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Looking at some of the stuff we did in high school, I consider it a miracle that all of my group survived to graduation.
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04-17-2024, 06:14 AM | #129 |
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Surviving adolescence with both eyes intact seems miraculous.
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Something about the good lord looking out for babies and fools comes to mind.
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