TopHatter

Have I irritated the Colonel recently? He seems gleefully ready to arrange my imminent demise...

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
~John Quincy Adams

Officer of Engineers

Why should you suffer any less than the rest of us?

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Chimo

TopHatter

*sigh* Very well, I'll take one for the team...
Knowing THL, it'll probably involve cats...

Oh, did you see the fine collection of armoured vehicles on the Cantigny thread she started?
Just ignore the idiot striking a pose next to a 75mm pack howitzer

Officer of Engineers

Does the fact that you're supposed to be behind the gun mean anything to you?

Samudra

Cool pix , but one more would really complete the collection.

THL

NO!
I suppose re-reading what I wrote, that may have come out wrong - I meant to block the camera.
Sorry, TopHat, for those minor heart palpitations you must have had last night as you read that.

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"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are."-Sholem Asch

"I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."-Earl Warren

"I didn't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."-Nancy Reagan, when asked a political question at a "Just Say No" rally

"He no play-a da game, he no make-a da rules."-Earl Butz, on the Pope's attitude toward birth control

THL

I tried to tell him, Sir, but he seemed so darn sure of himself, I didn't want to break his spirit.

Samudra

Maybe that reflects his current situation in (love)life.
Perhaps.

THL

Sam, I hope you are not suggesting I could drive my dear TopHat to throw himself in the line of gunfire...

TopHatter

Well yes it does, but that's more of a museum piece than a field piece these days.

Not at all

If you would have suggested that 7 years ago, I probably would have....

Officer of Engineers

And the fact it's a museum piece should change your respect and handling of weapons how?

You two are absolutely idiotic!

World Affairs Board - Somebody shoot me - I'm in love with a liberal

THL

Sir, I would like to think that you, too, were "idiotic" toward your, now, wife at one time... I am sure you two had your fill of glances and nudges in your day, no?

My dear TopHat and I are just living dreams of a time we let slip by, trying to make up for missed opportunities, and playing out our own little "What Could Have Been" scenario. Living 1300 miles apart, we don't get to share glances and the cold reality is that there will only be, unfortunately, the rare nudge poked between us. If this makes me "idiotic"...then all I can say is: Every village needs one and for my dear TopHat, I will gladly step up.

giggs88

awwwwwww.

Parihaka

Don't you go encouraging them! Next thing you know there'll be little hearts and flowers in the smilies options, and then where will we be!

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In the realm of spirit, seek clarity; in the material world, seek utility.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

THL

Let's not go taking things that far. I was simply trying to remind the Colonel that he, too, was probably mushy at one time.