June 2011
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Some Prussian humour...
One day, walking in an army camp, Frederick II saw a soldier shackled up.
“What did he do to deserve that punishment?”, the king asked.
“He mated with a mare, Your Majesty”.
“And so what? Free him already! If he has such trouble with animals, transfer him from the cavalry to the infantry”.
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Snippet from research on the battle of Minden
A corps of French Grenadiers, of which the commander’s name was Perer, was exposed to a battery that carried off files at once. Not wishing them to fall back, the officer rode slowly down the front of the line with his snuff-box in his hand and, taking no notice of the bullets, said, “Well, my boys, what’s the matter? Eh, cannon? Well, it kills you, it kills you,...
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Earthquake.
Just had one. First little earthquake of 2011 strong enough for me to notice, wow. <- not impressed
Just felt like recording the moment.
@Rai-che: Yup we get a few small ones every year: nothing terrible, just something to make my bookshelves creak even more than they usually do |D I would be much more scared shitless if I had to, say, charge a bunch of Russians at Eylau >_>
grenadierfifer:
1. //: Поехал казак на чужвину...
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“In the newspapers you read: ‘Peacefully they rest on the spot where they have...”
– Kanonier Gerhard Gürtler, 111 Bavarian Corps, Artillery (via demons)
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Hushhhmerde!
grenadierfifer:
AGHR. Just. NO. GOD. aaaghr!
I just failed second try of baroque oral exam just because the professor had a bad day and he was super bored and he wasn’t afraid to show it.
SRSLY THIS. I could get at least 3 for what I’ve said to him! Come on!
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And most probably I will NOT attend the third and last try in September, because I’ll be in Paris with my grenadier fellows as a...
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UGH.
Found this in my documents, copypasted from some Hetalia fanfic I really can’t remember where:
Frederick called himself the King IN Prussia b/c he believed in the country not a single individual leader.
Just… just… no. Non. Nein. Нет. Mancu pu culu. By Schopenhauer’s muttonchops, this little line is wrong on so many levels I can’t even attempt to rationalise.
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