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Wraggles To The Rescue!
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Oops! Even Jollyrei drives better than that..
windar
Teller of Tales
Not really. That's Asbury Park, hometown of a certain Bruce Springsteen, aka The Boss.
bobinder
ARTISAN
That's okay then. I was just doing a risk assessment based on the location...
bobinder
ARTISAN
In 1970, the West Coast music critic Philip Elwood described the early Bruce Springsteen-led, and Asbury Park-based, Steel Mill as "the first big thing that's happened to Asbury Park since the good ship Morro Castle burned to the waterline of that Jersey beach in '34" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Morro_Castle_(1930)
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
There was of course the grim reality of strafing missions.
This stèle in the Belgian Ardennes, near the village of Wéris remembers four local civilians, killed by an Allied pilot who mistook their farmer's wagon for a German transport (1st of september 1944). The victims were 88, 54, 18 and 5 years old.
This stèle in the Belgian Ardennes, near the village of Wéris remembers four local civilians, killed by an Allied pilot who mistook their farmer's wagon for a German transport (1st of september 1944). The victims were 88, 54, 18 and 5 years old.
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Even the red crosses on an ambulance train can be missed in the heat of combat.
War is never clean, or clinical. The innocent suffer, as they suffer at this very moment in Aleppo, although some suggest that hospitals are targeted deliberately there.
One wonders if one should write humorous stories about war, I guess it's a case of laugh or cry.
bobinder
ARTISAN
Oh I think literary satire is a healthy thing. Don't beat yourself up! (not literally, anyway!)Even the red crosses on an ambulance train can be missed in the heat of combat.
War is never clean, or clinical. The innocent suffer, as they suffer at this very moment in Aleppo, although some suggest that hospitals are targeted deliberately there.
One wonders if one should write humorous stories about war, I guess it's a case of laugh or cry.
What is being implied here? I most certainly do not!
What?
Oh. I see. Yes, well, okay then.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
I do not see a problem. When I remember the stories from my grand parents and parents and other relatives about daily life during the war, it sometimes occurs to me that the series 'Allo! Allo!' comes the closest to accuracy. But with a dark fringe of reality, of course.
And the question also applies to writing about clean, heroic war, reducing war to a sort of boy scout adventure?...We could throw away 95% of all war movies then.
"Allo Allo" was fun. It was a reasonably good parody of the BBC's "Secret Army" which was splendid. It very nicely captured the deceptive and dangerous atmosphere of life in a Nazi-occupied country.
I did at least manage to get in a couple of "Listen very carefully. I shall say this only only once." in.
RacingRodent
Consul
I did at least manage to get in a couple of "Listen very carefully. I shall say this only only once." in.
And did it very well
bobinder
ARTISAN
That provided the inspiration for this one!I did at least manage to get in a couple of "Listen very carefully. I shall say this only only once." in.
And good moaning to you.I did at least manage to get in a couple of "Listen very carefully. I shall say this only only once." in.
Repertor
Artifex Imaginum
I seem to have spent more time naked than Barb.
Ah, my uniform at last.
I hear there's a pretty girl serving coffee back at Repertor's safe house. I could use a coffee.
Be welcome. The choice is yours:
There are two pretty girls. Also your choice. 
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Thanks for this entertaining story, Wragg.
I hope he chooses the blonde.