Today I learned...
 

Ian Fleming

Today I learned, it's spelled Ian Fleming.

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QFT. Let's throw Australia in there for good measure as well.

CANZAC

Another celebrity connection from the Dieppe raid- one of the officers commanding it, and in the thick of the shooting, was David Niven. Who played James Bond in the original "Casino Royale".

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I've read the Canadians were pretty gung ho about getting in on the action, to the point of insisting they be used.

The Canadian Army did not get to France before the white sale and Canadians did not fight in North Africa.

Is it that surprising?

Lots of hunting, long distances between anything useful...

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At least we don't have a habit of showing up late.

Yeah, they have to be shoved onstage. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/tongue.gif

By letting the Japanese blow your entire navy base to smitherines ?

Even more than that, we know how to pull off a finale http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

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Troll fail, Asher.

I don't know what you're talking about, I read that as 76.27-repeating

Maybe that's the time between dropping an old school nuclear bomb and the bomb's detonation?

I'm just getting a kick out of your pride/glee in the face of your moral high-horse act in the Temple shooting thread.

... and I'm sure you noted most Hiroshima Jews were away from ground zero that day, too. Coincidence? I think not!

"The battle is re-enacted by a French group specializing in re-enactments of scenarios involving Canadian soldiers."

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/enter...959/story.html

such a group exists???

james bond should die of syphilis in the next movie

That's rather like saying "HAH! YOU WERE ONLY SAVED BY THE TWO METRES OF IMPREGNABLE CASTLE WALLS!". Still, it's easy to be relaxed about these things when you didn't lose.

Looks at map of British empire pre and post WW2 and points and laughs...