John said:
Presumably one takes one's best snipers offline to run one's sniper school?
==> Uh....yeah. If (and I say _if_) I beleive you take your good
marksmen offline, you certainly make them instructors, not administrators. And
you don't get to be a Colonel overnight, so I'm thinking you'd have been out
of sniping actively for a long time...
Well, there's some speculation that the officer in question was actually an
unknown NCO who was assigned officer rank by the propoganda machine. We'll
never know since the Whermacht destroyed his records after his death.
==> I could see that. I could also see it as quite likely this whole tale is
fanciful apocrypha of war, and not actually comparable to any real events per
se. I doubt the events transpired very much as they do in the movie. However,
that doesn't mean it can't be considered an interesting film.
==> After all SPR was considered fantastic, even though the mission it
John: Actually they got at least as far north as Edinburg. I've visited the
ruins of a Roman supply camp there.
The other half is that at this time the Scots had not yet invented Whiskey so
there was absolutely nothing of value that far north.
Tom: You underrate the value of a good Haggis.:) BTW, isn't this Edinburgh?
(and if you pronounce this like the burg in burger, you need a beatin...)
Chris: <some mumbling about leaving the Homeland>
Tom: I think the why boils down to "or starve". But if you are an expat (or
descended from same), then you should still be able to have your soul stirred
by the sun rising over a quiet glen or by the skirl of pipes in the crisp
morning air.
Michael: It'd cost them all their legions plus one.
> --- "Barclay, Tom" <tomb@bitheads.com> wrote:
> Tom:
Not at all. I'm quite fond of haggis. But it's not worth conquering a cold wet
rock garden filled with naked blue people over. And besides, did haggis exist
in the 1st century AD?
> BTW, isn't this Edinburgh? (and if you pronounce
Yeah, whatever. All European cities look the same to
me. ;)
G'day John,
> Not at all. I'm quite fond of haggis. But it's not
First record of it is in a cookery book published in 1390. Though they could
have been around earlier, so for the "real" reason they built Hadrian's wall
have a read of "Haggis and the ancient Romans at"
http://www.electricscotland.com/haggis/haggis2.html
Cheers
Beth