OT: Battle of Hastings

[Jonathan Lighter]

You must be a million years older than I am, because it was always Bunker
Hill for me.

Of course, that was in a different colony, er, state. One noted for its
lying Tories.

JL

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> 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."
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> 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.
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> >Equally OT: In my day, Charlie Martel won the battle of "Tours" in the 8th
> >C.  Nowadays it's the battle of "Poitiers."
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> 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.
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> Joel
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> >JL
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> >On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/9632922/Are-bodies-of-10000-lost-warriors-from-Battle-of-Hastings-buried-in-this-field.html
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