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El Malmo
Zooniverse,
United Kingdom
Posts: 25,164
Premier Member
Daytona 955i (04->)
22 Sep 2008 13:36 |
Went to Houghton Towers t'other day and there were a bunch of geezers called the 'Sealed Knot' or something playing at civil war soldiers.
How bizarre !
Bit like them blokes that pretend to be cowboys at weekend.
I know they say that blokes never grow up but pretending to play at war in your middle age is a bit odd.
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Rob BBTB
Birmingham,
United Kingdom
Posts: 24,193
Premier Member
Sprint ST (05->)
22 Sep 2008 14:01 |
How bizarre !
Bit like posting in the wrong forum really.
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Timtrumpet
Oxford,
United Kingdom
Posts: 139
Daytona 955i (04->)
23 Sep 2008 12:12 |
Bloke 2 doors down from me is in the Sealed Knot and so's his wife
Rarely at home at weekends
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 Barney
SouthWestThePoshBit,
United Kingdom
Posts: 4,685
Premier Member
Sprint ST (05->)
23 Sep 2008 12:47 |
Most of them do it for the wenching at the end of the battles.
I knew someone who used to do it, he reckoned he only went for all the beer and shagging he said it was just like a full blown swinger's party in the nights.   
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El Malmo
Zooniverse,
United Kingdom
Posts: 25,164
Premier Member
Daytona 955i (04->)
30 Sep 2008 12:03 |
Rob ...
wonder why it hasn't been moved ?
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jimmyj
Land of Black Prince,
United Kingdom
Posts: 8,215
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Daytona 955i (04->)
30 Sep 2008 12:32 |
Probably no point re-enacting this somewhere else...
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Rob BBTB
Birmingham,
United Kingdom
Posts: 24,193
Premier Member
Sprint ST (05->)
30 Sep 2008 13:14 |
Perhaps it's this thread we should be ignoring 
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jimmyj
Land of Black Prince,
United Kingdom
Posts: 8,215
Premier Member
Daytona 955i (04->)
30 Sep 2008 13:21 |
I shall ignore that...
Re-enactments are a tad repetitive... http://www.t595.net/messa.....ents/74011.aspx
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Rob BBTB
Birmingham,
United Kingdom
Posts: 24,193
Premier Member
Sprint ST (05->)
30 Sep 2008 13:25 |
Nothing worse than hearing the same old, same old......
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mick durbin
boulder colo./u.s.a.,
USA
Posts: 174
Daytona T595 (97-98)
25 Oct 2008 21:42 |
north and south civil war u.s.a. style or a brit civil war, if so which one?
i like the beer and shagging bit tho , i think they did that in our "troubles" 1864 ish
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Capt. Kirk
leftcoast,
USA
Posts: 2,287
Premier Member
Enthusiast
26 Oct 2008 00:27 |
You could always go the other route and be a soldier in the future....
Trekkies
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SpitfireTriple
Bath,
United Kingdom
Posts: 392
Daytona 900 (93-96)
26 Oct 2008 05:26 |
[edited]:
north and south civil war u.s.a. style or a brit civil war, if so which one?...
English Civil War 1642-1651. We've only really had one civil war, though we did break off for tea twice during these years. Scuffles outside the pub at closing time don't count. In 1649 Cromwell and his mob chopped off the head of Charles 1. But we Brits soon got fed up of puritan government so in 1660 we dumped the Parliamentarians and restored Charles 11. We've never looked back.
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§peêd†riÞ
Surrey/Hants border,
United Kingdom
Posts: 41,603
Premier Member
Speed Triple 955i (02-04)
26 Oct 2008 09:05 |
altho the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1689 (?) eventually introduced the Germans to our 'Royalty' ..... we've often looked back.
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mick durbin
boulder colo./u.s.a.,
USA
Posts: 174
Daytona T595 (97-98)
26 Oct 2008 16:03 |
spit tripp, thanks or the history lesson.
buy the way here in colorado, up in aspen , there's a fellow that owns a 2 place spitfire. it was modified at the supermarine works for the Irish air force . it's a real beauty, as soon as i learn how to send pix from my lap top i'll post them.
2 1/2 months ago in Texas , the spit and a hurricane were taking off side by side adn the hurri blew a tire sewrved infront of the spit who was able to avoid major damage but the tail unit suffered and a landing gear collapsed ,damaging the prop as well. He sometimes parkes it here in boulder, thats when i get to photograph it.
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Tony Rokins / TR
Reading, Berkshire,
United Kingdom
Posts: 196
Daytona 955i (02)
30 Oct 2008 13:33 |
err, what about the war of the roses? That would make two civil wars.....
TR
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jimmyj
Land of Black Prince,
United Kingdom
Posts: 8,215
Premier Member
Daytona 955i (04->)
31 Oct 2008 08:14 |
TR - "err, what about the war of the roses?" - you're right - every bloody christmas, war breaks out over who is having the Purple ones with the nuts in them...
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Tony Rokins / TR
Reading, Berkshire,
United Kingdom
Posts: 196
Daytona 955i (02)
31 Oct 2008 13:02 |
purple ones with nuts in? Oooo err, would that be the Earl of Warwick, then?
TR
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