[plug] [OT] Origin of a tagline

[Patrick Tehvand]

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Leon Brooks wrote:

| I forget whose tagline this was, but I've just stumbled across what
| appears to be a more original, richer version:
|
|     There we were; three against a thousand. We fought them for
|     seven days and nights as the battle waxed and waned; neither
|     side yielding. We exhausted our ammunition and were too far
|     out to get support, so we fixed bayonets and charged. The
|     fighting that ensued was fierce hand to hand combat and
|     finally we overwhelmed them. They would have to be the
|     toughest three we ever fought.
|
| Cheers; Leon
|
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Actually this reminds me of a joke my father once told me:

A Viet Cong commander was standing on a hill, surveying the surrounding
countryside when he saw a lone Australian SAS soldier moving across a
clearing. He sent a platoon out to kill or capture the trooper. And hour
later there was no trace of the platoon, so he sent out a company. Still
no one returned. So in desperation he sent out a battalion. Two hours
later a lone VC soldier came staggering back, uniform in tatters with
bullet wounds everywhere.
"What happened?" yelled the VC commander. "Where are the rest of the
troops?"
The lone survivor replied, "It was a trap, Sir! There were two of them"

true story.

cheers
Patrick

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