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Post by The Bloody Baron on Sept 22, 2004 21:56:21 GMT -5
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Post by Lorpius Prime on Sept 22, 2004 23:10:34 GMT -5
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Post by The Bloody Baron on Sept 22, 2004 23:20:17 GMT -5
No, as previously stated on this webforum, I was killed by a single bullet to the chest fired by that Australian machine gunner.
If you recall the Peanuts cartoons, every time we met, it was *I* who shot down Snoopy.
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Post by Lorpius Prime on Sept 22, 2004 23:37:42 GMT -5
I specifically remember a song from a mini-record I had when I was 8 that involved snoopy shooting down the Red Baron, you. You're just afraid to admit that your Messerschmitt wasn't worth a Dog House.  |
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Post by The Bloody Baron on Sept 22, 2004 23:46:56 GMT -5
I specifically remember a song from a mini-record I had when I was 8 that involved snoopy shooting down the Red Baron, you. Heck, they made songs about dropping nukes on North Korea in the 1950's, North Vietnam in the 1960's, Iran in the 1970's, Libya in the 1980's, Iraq in the 1990's, and pretty much everyone in the 2000's. Doesn't mean any actual nukes were dropped on anyone then. Besides, songs are non-canon. You're just afraid to admit that your Messerschmitt wasn't worth a Dog House. It was a Fokker Dr.1 Triplane. And, yes, I realize the irony that Germany's greatest hero flew around in a plane made in the Netherlands. Dutch, Deutsch, what's the difference? Gott in Himmel, The Americans in that war mostly flew French aircraft! |
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Post by Lorpius Prime on Sept 23, 2004 14:47:59 GMT -5
It was a Fokker Dr.1 Triplane. And, yes, I realize the irony that Germany's greatest hero flew around in a plane made in the Netherlands. Dutch, Deutsch, what's the difference? Of all the people to say that...  |
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Post by Big Brother on Sept 25, 2004 4:05:24 GMT -5
Yeah, the Baron has seemed surlier than usual lately. Maybe the old head wound has been acting up again?
Hey, Baron...have you been experiencing headaches, double vision, or any other symptoms of a brain injury lately?
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Sirius Black
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Notorious Mass Murderer Or Innocent Singing Sensation?
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Post by Sirius Black on Oct 2, 2004 0:22:27 GMT -5
Hey, Baron...have you been experiencing headaches, double vision, or any other symptoms of a brain injury lately? I don't understand your logic, Big Brother. He's a Slytherin, none of whom actually think for themselves. So what makes you think he had a brain in the first place? Just kidding. I know he had a brain... it's just a pity he never used it except as a bullet receptacle. |
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Post by Lorpius Prime on Oct 2, 2004 8:19:52 GMT -5
Oh, here's an interesting question. What do you wizarding folk think of such muggle wars?
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Post by Big Brother on Oct 3, 2004 7:45:01 GMT -5
Oh, here's an interesting question. What do you wizarding folk think of such muggle wars? From all appearances in the books, they usually don't. While Nazi bombs were raining down on London and Jews were being marched into gas chambers, the Wizards of Britain were apparently too busy dealing with "The Dark Wizard Grindlewald" to get involved in Muggle affairs. Given that he's usually assumed to be another clueless idiot like Voldemort, lacking in any concrete plan as to how to take over the world, I get the strong impression that he could have been handled by two police cars and a paddywagon. Wizards show an apalling lack of concern for Muggles. A couple dozen British Aurors could, at any time during the Cold War, snuck into every Soviet ICBM base and literally turned the plutonium warheads into smoky Gouda cheese, and there wouldn't have been anything mere muggle guards armed with nothing more than SMG's could have done to stop them. Young, spry Dumbledore could have handled the entire top Nazi leadership by himself in WW2. There isn't a Muggle dictatorship or genocidal regime that a handful of hitwizards armed with time-turners, memory charms, stunning spells, and the occasional Killing Curse couldn't easily bundle up and send off to the ICJ in the Hague. The Wizarding world has all the moral authority of a Swiss Banker hoarding Nazi gold. |
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Post by Severus Snape on Oct 12, 2004 3:26:44 GMT -5
From all appearances in the books, they usually don't. While Nazi bombs were raining down on London and Jews were being marched into gas chambers, the Wizards of Britain were apparently too busy dealing with "The Dark Wizard Grindlewald" to get involved in Muggle affairs. Given that he's usually assumed to be another clueless idiot like Voldemort, lacking in any concrete plan as to how to take over the world, I get the strong impression that he could have been handled by two police cars and a paddywagon. Prepare to be enlightened, Mr. Brother. The dictator Muggles know as Adolf Hitler was in fact a wizard, albeit a poor one -- for a comparison from the limited span of wizarding history with which you claim to be familiar, see Gilderoy Lockhart. He was practically a Squib, and I am told that such a poor wizard as Longbottom would have been able to defeat him single-handed in a duel. Having witnessed Longbottom's abyssmal skills, I personally think it unlikely; however, that example should illustrate the depth of Hitler's ineptitude with a wand. The so-called "art school" from which Hitler was rejected was in fact The Durmstrang Institute of Magic, and he carried a life-long grudge against the magical world because of it. What Hitler's ambition could not accomplish in magical circles, he attempted to achieve in the Muggle world. Perhaps you are aware of this from your knowledge of Muggle history, but there are several aspects of Hitler's strategies that Ministries of Magic around the world have been covering up for years. Hitler met the wizard who would later style himself as the Dark Mage Grindelwald in 1935 at a rally. Muggle-born himself, Grindelwald was dissatisfied with the wizarding world for a number of reasons. He hated the Polish headmaster of Durmstrang, who had rejected his application on account of his birth, and the Flemish (by birth) headmaster of Hogwarts, Armando Dippet (who else but a Belgian would give their child such a ridiculous name?), who had refused to include the Dark Arts in the Hogwarts curriculum. Hitler's Muggle armies assisted Grindelwald in wreaking his revenge across the face of Europe, just as Grindelwald fed Hitler's ambitions. You may thank the German Ministry of Magic's Department of Misinformation for covering such maneuvers with handy excuses like Lebensraum and other such propaganda. After Britain and Russia became directly involved in the war, Grindelwald served as a close advisor to Hitler. Among other contributions, he assisted in the development of the Enigma codes (based on obscure Arithmantic equations, which dedicated British Arithmancers were eventually able to break) and the enhancement of weapons systems by his self-taught dark magic. The defeat of Grindelwald was therefore key to the war. Beginning in 1944, Professor Dumbledore allowed Emeric Switch to take over his Transfiguration classes while he engaged Grindelwald in a series of duels which distracted him, allowing Allied Forces to press into German territory. His final triumph over the German wizard occurred in April 1945, and Hitler, believing all was lost without the assistance of his magical benefactor upon which he had so relied, committed suicide. On his travels following his departure from Hogwarts, the future Dark Lord (I believe you know his name), met and trained with many of Grindelwald's teachers and followers. Because Dumbledore had defeated Grindelwald, the young Dark Lord came to fear the future Headmaster's power. Muggles and wizards must share blame for beginning, propagating, and ending the war. Now that you are aware of the existence of wizards, you should also come to the obvious conclusion that the magical community has had a hand in your own history; after all, the wizards Claudius Ptolemy, Archimedes, and Tycho Brahe did. There isn't a Muggle dictatorship or genocidal regime that a handful of hitwizards armed with time-turners, memory charms, stunning spells, and the occasional Killing Curse couldn't easily bundle up and send off to the ICJ in the Hague. That may be true in truly mundane regimes, but I believe that due to the clear magical involvement in said Nazi regime, as described above, your theory cannot apply in this case. The Wizarding world has all the moral authority of a Swiss Banker hoarding Nazi gold. Yes, and because of the attempted witch-burnings of the centuries before the International Statute of Secrecy, the Muggle world has all the moral authority of the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades. Did you have an actual point, or shall I take twenty points from Ravenclaw for your fallacious argument ad hominem? |
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Post by Mlle Bienvenu on Nov 27, 2004 3:17:20 GMT -5
Wow, Professor, that was enlightening. I must pay better attention in Binn's class... although I don't think he has ever mentioned anything so interesting... all he ever seems to discuss are goblin rebellions.
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