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Sep 21, 2021
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#83
btickler wrote:
batgirl wrote:
The military helps open some doors and create some options for many people... unless of course they go AWOL or something.
As a pacifist, I doubt the military would have even been something I'd ever choose.
That's Both Sides now.
The military is not something I would choose these days myself. Post 9/11, the use of the military has been far too hawkish. It's telling that the military is 1.4 million strong, but the Peace Corps is under 7500.
One wonders...what would happen if you swapped those numbers?
what would happen if you swapped those numbers?
would make a great song, dontcha think?
i think it would make a good song
batgirl wrote:
flabbi wrote:
Wow, I remember the Chess Mate but I never got over there. Some of the names of the chess players mentioned were ones that I played in Detroit tournaments of the Detroit Metro League. I discovered a chess column written by John Bult in the Detroit Times in the late 1950s and eventually I began cutting them out and saving them (they are gone now). I remember I was playing in a chess tournament in Detroit in 1966, I think, and I asked an onlooker if he would play me. He appeared to be about 60 years old, I think he said his last name was Stein, and I mentioned that one of my favorite players was Dus-Khotimirsky and he said that he had played Dus-Khotimirsky. And all these years later, I wonder who this fellow, last name Stein, I believe, was who played Dus-Khotimirsky. A Russian emigre living in Detroit? I never saw any mention of a player last name Stein living in (or visiting) Detroit in 1966 or so.
I wasn't even born until December of 1973. Is Dus-Chotimirsky. still your favorite player? He was the Kiev champions several times around the turn of the 20th century and possibly most famous for having beaten both Lasker and Rubinstein, co-winners of St. Petersburg 1909, in that same tournament (though he, himself only finished 13th). I know him best from my research on Prince Dadian of Mingelia who Duz, a friend of Tschigorin, had only spiteful things to say.
Must get round Nd to the article on him I started on 3 years ago!! 🤣👍
Sep 22, 2021
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#86
simaginfan wrote:
Must get round Nd to the article on him I started on 3 years ago!! 🤣👍
I'd stand in line to read it (but not for 3 years). Be sure to include all the many English transliterations of his name (one has to search him 4 or 5 times in English, using different variations of his name, then in the original Ukrainian and finally in Russian--he's not an easy man to deal with).
batgirl wrote:
what would happen if you swapped those numbers?
would make a great song, dontcha think?
Quite possibly.
Sep 22, 2021
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#88
How many men do we need to fight
If we need to start a war?
How many men do we need to fight?
All you can say is "More."
How many men will it take to tame
This raging waring fire?
Can these same men contrive to make
a plan for peace transpire?
oooooo noice
batgirl wrote:
How many men do we need to fight
If we need to start a war?
How many men do we need to fight?
All you can say is "More."
How many men will it take to tame
This raging waring fire?
Can these same men contrive to make
a plan for peace transpire?
The answer is blowing in the wind...
this is my dad
moooooooo batgril feed me baby milk
batgril?
or he will attack you
i took this photo
i saw it drooling for you
The military helps open some doors and create some options for many people... unless of course they go AWOL or something.
As a pacifist, I doubt the military would have even been something I'd ever choose.
That's Both Sides now.
The military is not something I would choose these days myself. Post 9/11, the use of the military has been far too hawkish. It's telling that the military is 1.4 million strong, but the Peace Corps is under 7500.
One wonders...what would happen if you swapped those numbers?