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A moose ran over my sister once...

Yes but the elephants don’t work after that.

I think he means ‘eventually the elephants will calm down enough to be stopped, mahouts killed them in case they calmed down enough to...

I think that might get branded a war crime. So it's probably standard issue to the Canadian army...

12th October 1914, IJN Karuma near Easter Island. The two ships had gone to action stations early, the young sailor had been in his...

Without straying into current events who can say.

Might be a joke about how they did their own version of Operation Paperclip but, instead of taking anything that looked vaguely...

I don’t think the Austrian Hungarian army is going to be in contact with the British in this timeline. But you never know he might...

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A rock? Ee luxury! We used ter dream of rocks. All we ’ad were sand and pot of glue……….

Well when I joined the army we didn’t have any fancy rifles, we had sticks, two sticks and a rock which we had to share! Cheer up...

That's whats wrong with the world; to much reliance on newfangled gadgets, I tell you!! Longbowmen and billmen. That's what we need...

Harrumph! What's wrong with the Brown Bess and a halfpike? Disgusted of Tonbridge Wells (retired).

11th October 1914, Brussels. The young private soldier had been thinking back with some happiness to his youth, those recollection vied...

On the flip side, why risk the RA & Terriers in Brussels when you can pack them in a Clapham omnibus, scout the way out in advance by...