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* The Books That Founded D&D - 5 messages, 3 authors
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* Sa-Rah! Sa-RAH! How Dubya Gave Dummies a Bad Name. - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: The Books That Founded D&D
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/8ba57c69243a3499?hl=en
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== 1 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 23 2009 9:14 pm
From: Juho Julkunen
In article <0d6677c7-878d-47ff-9fe7-fb02af56e1d0@
33g2000vbe.googlegroups.com>, Mark Reichert (Mark_Reichert@hotmail.com)
says...
> On Nov 23, 1:18 pm, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:
> > In article <heelo9$f9...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mike Schilling <mscottschill...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >David Johnston wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:42:42 +0200, "Marko Amnell"
> > >> <marko.amn...@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
> > >>> A master swordsman can
> > >>> defeat many less skilled opponents in combat. To quote
> > >>> Miyamoto Musashi in _The Book of Five Rings_:
> >
> > >>> "If he attains the virtue of the long sword, one man can beat
> > >>> ten men.
> >
> > >> If he's wearing armour and the ten men are untrained peasants.
> >
> > >None of whom think of sneaking up behind the swordsman and braining
> > >him with a rock.
> >
> > IIRC, that was one of the parts of _Guns Germs & Steel_ that seemed least
> > convincing -- that steel made a handful of Spaniards *so* overwhelming that
> > the conquest of Latin America was inevitable.
>
> You did notice the other two parts of the title, didn't you?
>
> What's with the Diamond hate these days? I remember the book getting
> a better reception here when it came out.
People are finally beginning to wise up?
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Juho Julkunen
== 2 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 23 2009 9:22 pm
From: Juho Julkunen
In article <MPG.257597e3fe5621aa98981c@news.kolumbus.fi>, Juho Julkunen
(giaotanj@hotmail.com) says...
> Alexander counquered again and again without much of a technological
And he conquered, too.
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Juho Julkunen
== 3 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 23 2009 6:44 pm
From: dbd@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney)
Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> wrote:
>"Marko Amnell" <marko.amnell@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>>If Lieber were right, there would be no point in training
>>to fight with a sword.
>
> Suppose I only need to take out two opponents.
But ... what if one of them was armed with a banana?
Dave "all right, stop the thread, it's gotten too silly" DeLaney
--
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== 4 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 23 2009 10:02 pm
From: "Mike Schilling"
Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:29:31 GMT, goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David
> Goldfarb) wrote:
>
>> In article
>> <bsfmg5dlbsatgf295rdu4mo19036o40srn@news.eternal-september.org>,
>> Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:15:38 +0200, "Marko Amnell"
>>> <marko.amnell@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>>>> "Horatius: The Roman sentry on the Tiber River who in
>>>> 508 BC held off the Etruscan army singlehandedly, long
>>>> enough for his comrades to destroy the crossing.
>>>
>>> Um... that's not right. First off, he wasn't really a sentry, but
>>> more importantly, his sons fought with him; they would switch off
>>> defending the bridge, so that the Etruscans couldn't just tire him
>>> out.
>>>
>>> The Horatii were among the great heroes of Rome, so I'm surprised
>>> Hobbes would get that wrong.
>>
>> Accounts vary, but none of the sources I can find in a quick search
>> say that Horatius Cocles was accompanied by sons. Are you thinking
>> of the triplet Horatii who fought the Curatii of Alba Longa? They
>> were much earlier.
>
> Ah. You know, I believe I am. Oops.
Well, there are more things in heaven and earth...
== 5 of 5 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 23 2009 10:06 pm
From: "Mike Schilling"
David DeLaney wrote:
> Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> wrote:
>> "Marko Amnell" <marko.amnell@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>>> If Lieber were right, there would be no point in training
>>> to fight with a sword.
>>
>> Suppose I only need to take out two opponents.
>
> But ... what if one of them was armed with a banana?
What is it about British comedians and bananas? Pratchett must
mention the Librarian eating one (or looking for one, or being bribed
with one, or ...) at least ten times a book..
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TOPIC: Sa-Rah! Sa-RAH! How Dubya Gave Dummies a Bad Name.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.books/t/676d72a978192f13?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Nov 23 2009 9:24 pm
From: Piet de Arcilla
On Nov 23, 1:11 pm, Skipper <skipSPAMpr...@yahoo.not> wrote:
> Thanks for illustrating perfectly what a spitting blathering evil nasty
> creep of a "liberal" persuasion is like.
Whatever Uncle Al is, he's nobody's stereotype of a "liberal creep".
You haven't read enough of his bilious writings to realize that,
apparently.
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