Roger Burton West schrieb:
> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:42:16AM -0400, Indy wrote:
I guess the joke depends on the period you are looking at:
> Start with the French; fair enough.
Louis XIV, Napoleon
> Then the Italians,
Rome, the Middle Ages and early Renaissance
> the Spaniards, (OK, they had Harriers for a while),
The Reconquista, Conquista and Renaissance periods
> the Portugese,
The colonial empire, and the Napoleonic Wars
> the Greeks...
Classical Greece, the Byzantines (Hi John!), though is a somewhat complex
issue.
Even the Germans (not to mention the Italians) acknowledged that they fought
well in WWII. They just didn't have the ressources to fight the Reich.
> none of them is really a country to make someone brought
If you are an Anglophone ;-)
Greetings
> From: KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de
> I guess the joke depends on the period you are looking at:
Taken in context of the conversation, it seemed apparent that the time period
in question was the 20th century to the present.
*SNIP*
> > the Greeks...
> Even the Germans (not to mention the Italians) acknowledged that they
Being a married man, I was recently subjected to the movie Captain Corelli's
Mandolin (Small aside: Penelope Cruz is definitely some of the nicer eye
candy Hollywood's given us recently, but her acting ability is roughly
equivalent to a doorknob). While I suppose the events surrounding the
characters themselves are fictitious, the movie makers did a surprisingly good
job with the background history regarding WWII from a Greek perspective. They
covered the defeat of the Italians against the Greeks in Albania, and the
subsequent involvement of the Germans. They also did a
good job showing greek attitudes towards both the Germans (whom they hated but
respected), and the Italians, as well as in depicting German and Italian
equipment and also the German treatment of Italians after the Italians
withdrew from the war.
3B^2
From: <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de>
> > none of them is really a country to make someone brought