War"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure."
"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me."
"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping.
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion."
"The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they
have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews, bottle openers. 'C'mon, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he's got a spoon.
Back off, I've got the toe nail clippers right here.'"
"'And after I'd made enough of a stink, someone apparently said, "You're British, you're a priest, you're a medical doctor, you can handle a rifle, you know Morse Code,
and most importantly of all, you're a fucking pain in the ass - so off you go!" And the next thing I knew, I'm in that meat locker in Algiers.'"
"And if that didn't get their attention, the cyanide capsules sure did. And the lecture from Chattan on the correct way to blow your won head off ('you would be astonished at how many otherwise competant chaps botch this apparently simple procedure.')" ----Cryptonomicon by Neal Town Stepheenson "He has gone back to his earlier train of thought, regarding societies and their efforts to outdo each other. It is very clear to him, as wave after wave of Nipponese dive
bombers hurl themselves, with calligraphic precision, at the ship he is standing on, and as the cream of his society's navy burns and explodes and sinks, putting up virtually no
resistance, that his society is going to have to rethink a thing or two."
"[O]h, yeah, and if any of the Italians, who actually live in Italy, and who run the place, and who are Fascists and who are at war with us - if
any of them notice you and, for some reason, object to your little plan, whatever the fuck it is, then by all means kill them. And if that doesn't work,
please, by all means, kill yourself, because you'll probably do a neater job of it than the Fascists will. Don't forget the suntan lotion!"
"Some U-boat skippers would not be above machine-gunning the survivors, at this point, just to let off a little steam. But, the cammander, Kapitanleutnant Gunter Bischoff is not yet
a card-carrying member of the Nazi Party and probably never will be. On the other hand, Bischoff is wrapped in a straight jacket and blasted half out of his mind on drugs. Acting
commander is Oberleutnant zur See Karl Beck. He is a card-carrying National Socialist, and, in other circumstances, he might be game for a bit of punitive machine-gunning, but at the
moment he's exhausted and pretty badly shook up."
"They are going to be putting in some bivouac time. They are going to play a lot of cards for a while. During this time, the radio man is going to be very busy. This phase of the operation
might last as long as a week. At some point, it is likely that strenuous concerted efforts to kill them will be made by a whole lot of Germans, and, if they happen to be feeling impetuous that day,
Italians."
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