OT: Battle of Hastings

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/26/2012 08:56 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Modern estimates place the size of each army at 10,000 or less.
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>So even allowing for some numerical  imprecision, "10,000 casualties" must
>be the result of somebody thinking, once again, that "casualty" means
>"fatality."

9,999 bottles of Guinness on the wall, 9,999 bottle of Guinness. If
one of those bottles should happen to fall, 9,998 more casualties to fall.


>Equally OT: In my day, Charlie Martel won the battle of "Tours" in the 8th
>C.  Nowadays it's the battle of "Poitiers."

In my day, the Patriots fought the battle of Breed's Hill in the 17th
century, in which the Tories suffered many "casualties".  Nowadays
it's the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Joel


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>On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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