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Tomahawk wrote:
Master Doug Huffman wrote:
PavePusher wrote:
I think Heinlein is still in coast-down mode...
LOL. Push-up mode, pushin' up daisies twenty-one years.
Starship Troopers, the book (for you virtual intellectuals), was written in 1959 when I was eleven years old.
I think he meant he was still de-spinning in his grave after that abominable film adaptation of his fine novel.
BTW, I've heard that Japanese admiral quote about the blade of grass thing is fake. Like the Hitler quote about gun control.
Now, now Uncas. Be polite, the proper term is "apocryphal".
There is doubt that Yamamoto said that, although he studied in America and was familiar with our vastness and resources. One thng he did say upon being asked to raid Pearl Harbor was: "I can run wild for six months, but after that ....(the rest of the quote escapes me at the moment). The "blade of grass" quote was actually made by another Japanese military leader who had been in the States. Attributing it to Yamamoto just gives it more pizzazz.
Not familiar with the Hitler quote, but Heinrich Himmler said that if people wanted to have guns then they should join the Heer (Army), the SA or the Waffen-SS and defend the Reich.
