Sunday, March 18, 2007

Fighting the Reds

Who wins?
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8 comments:

My Frontier Thesis said...

Sounds like a variation on Risk. Colorado and Dakota (I'm missing other states and watersheds that have nukes) would hold quite a few of the cards. I think we'd just obliterate California right off, eliminating about 74% of the nonsense in the world. Then we could get down to serious compromise, and collaboration. We all have such a common heritage in disagreeing with one another that we'd be able to quickly resolve our differences, unify, and finally invade France.

3/18/2007 11:56 PM
Tecumseh said...

Where would you land? At Omaha Beach, or just smack drab on the roof of Versailles?

3/19/2007 12:15 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

I'm compelled to invade in my ancestral Nordic homeland of Normandy. However, upon further evalution, it's likely that we'll first go where the wine is best: Bourdeaux country. Note: the Invasion Planning Committee is open to alternative suggestions.

3/19/2007 12:45 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Amendment: we'd do all this after sending Pepe to Gitmo.

3/19/2007 12:47 AM
Tecumseh said...

MFT: Can you really trace back (some of) your relatives to Normandy?

3/19/2007 12:53 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...

The last name is gone. But it exists in folklore, and in an amateur manuscript drafted by one of my great aunts about fifty years ago. She traced a portion of my mother's lineage back to Normandy, circa 18th-century. They in turn crossed the channel for Scotland. Although it's not for certain that my maternal side was from there (or at least a portion), my great aunt's family folklore manuscript is still a source.

Anyhow, you start goin' far enough back, and everyone seems to be from everywhere. I've also got some Bohemian maternal ancestry.

The majority, however, is paternally Scandinavian. My great granddad was right off the Svenska immigrant boat. He picked up a Swedish fru in Wisconsin, and they eventually homesteaded in northern Dakota in the late nineteenth-century. That's likely way more than you wanted to know. I digress.

3/19/2007 8:01 AM
Tecumseh said...

Funny thing is that I also have not-too-distant ancestors coming from Normandy. So let's march on Versailles! Too many Pepe look-alikes there, not enough true Normans.

3/19/2007 1:07 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...

Normans assimilated quickly, a simultaneous ethnic strength and weakness. In the words of AA when I returned from the Carrib: "The French coast just ain't what she used to be..." (AA replaced "French coast" with "Carrib").

Note: Jimmy Buffet sucks balls.

3/19/2007 11:35 PM

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