Monty Python got some good alliterative mileage out of that term in their movie “And Now For Something Completely Different.” One sequence in the movie is a fake WWII British newsreel, in black and white, with suitably bombastic narration that includes the opening line “Yes, the war against the Hun continues – and as Britian’s brave boys battle against the Boche…” By the standards of genuine WWII newsreels, that’s actually not as over-the-top as it sounds to modern ears. And during a real WWII deception operation, the fake letter from General Nye to General Alexander which was the centrepiece of the “Mincemeat” disinformation scheme used such phrases as “We have had recent information that the Boche have been reinforcing and strengthening their defences in Greece and Crete…”
Favorite People
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So… whaddya say? You can mention more than one, but I for one am going to keep mine categorized, for instance:
Intellectual Role Model: Stephen Hawking
Most Influential Leader: Erwin Rommel
Favorite Looney Toon: Marvin the Martian
Favorite Other Cartoon Character: Dr. Zoidberg
Favorite Movie Character: Kaiser Soze (spelling?)Can’t think of any more right now, but hopefully the rest of you guys can help me out with that… :wink:
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Ronald Reagan!!
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Von Manstein
Wilhelm Kaiser II
Teddy Roosevelt
Socrates
Marcus Licinius Crassus
Richard Wagner
Arthur Schopenhauer
Giovanni Gentile
Horatio Nelson
Otto von Bismarck
Emperor Trajan
Oswald MosleyFavorite Movie Character: anything with Lawrence Olivier ,Curt Jürgens, Stanley Tucci, Anthony Hopkins, Ingrid Bergman, or Robert Shaw.
Literary character: Friedrich Nietzsches’ Zarathustra, Goethes’ Faust, Horatio Hornblower
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Zinn - Historian
Teddy Roosevelt - Conservative President
Bradley - WWII Army General
Jefferson - Ultra Conservative President, Forefather
Edison - Inventor
Einstein - Scientist
Churchill - “Testicular Fortitude” (Gov. Blagoevich, IL)Fictional?
Rick Hunter - Ghost Squadron, SDF
Commander Susan Ivanova - Babylon 5
Tom Paris - Voyager (what a hunk!)Written:
Secretary General of the United Nations Nicholas Ewing Seafort of David Feintuch’s Seafort Saga
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Real Folks:
My Wife
The rest of my extended family (with a few exceptions…)
Richard Nixon
George Patton
Richard Thornburg
Neal BoortzFictional:
JOHN GALT
Gandalf the Grey
Camber
Sirrocco Jones -
Aha! I knew some more would come to me!
Favorite Sci-Fi Novel Character: Emperor Leto II
Favorite Fantasy Novel Character: Morgoth -
Well, this one is easy at first, but I’m not sure on the categories supplied.
Of course, these are favorites:
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Military general: George Patton
Historian: Stephen Ambrose
Fantasy author: Diana Wynn Jones
President: Ronald Reagan
Social commentator: Mark Steyn or Rob Long
Comic actor: Jim Carrey
All-round actor: Tim Curry
Comedian: Lewis Black or Stephen Wright
Composer: Beethoven
Rock musician: Jimmy EuringerThat’s enough for now…
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A few for starters:
Military:
Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson
Carl Von Clausewitz
Randall Shughart
Gary Gordon
George Patton
Erwin RommelWorld Leaders:
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
Megas Alexandros
Michael Collins