Explain the AH Quote

[The Militant Doberman]

"Dry Land Fox"

An English language phrase stemming from the Battle of Tanga in WW1. During the battle the Royal Navy’s cruiser HMS Fox ran aground and became stuck on hostile shore. The German commander sent one of his soldiers waving a white flag to the ship to negotiate for the peaceful surrender of the British sailors. During the negotiations the German commented to the RN captain that “your sea-fox is stuck, never to see the ocean again!” to which the captain replied “Indeed — it became a Dry Land Fox. Ever had one of those bite you? Vicious little critters.”

The phrase “Dry Land Fox” became a symbol of British tenacity and dry sense of humour.

“If I shoot him will I get a medal?”
“No... you’ll get TWO!”

 

[Cmastashizzlerizzle]

“If I shoot him will I get a medal?”
“No... you’ll get TWO!”

A commander responding to a sniper sent on a secret mission to assassinate Hitler

"I am altering the deal premier Gorbachev pray I do not alter it further"

 

[Gen.Jurten]

A commander responding to a sniper sent on a secret mission to assassinate Hitler

"I am altering the deal premier Gorbachev pray I do not alter it further"

Seth McFarlane as Ronald Reagan, in Iran, The Wall, and Trickled Down, a satirical comedy about the 40th President of the United States of America.

"There will be times when a officer will find the limitless hosts of the enemies arrayed against him, when all hopes for victory fade away to leave them confronted with the bitter truth of their own mortality. Perhaps it could have been avoided, but perhaps not, know that this galaxy despises man and his works, and in such a dark place and dark time, the only victory possible is over one's own despair. The commander must reach deep into his own soul, and the souls of his men, and find the most terrible and potent weapon in his arsenal - devotion to the Nation, defiance unto death, face the enemy in their multitude with fire in your heart and a prayer on your lips! Your deaths are your own, and thus do you deny the enemy his victory.

 

[Von Tyrconnell]

Speech by General Sergej Ingr to his officers calling on them to lead and defend Prague to the last man during the 1938 German Invasion of Czechoslovakia

"We announce Patrick von Pearse to be the first president of Ireland!"

 

[ThatOneGuy]

"We announce Patrick von Pearse to be the first president of Ireland!"

A line taken from the notes of the 1st session of the Oireachtas, the legislative body of the new Irish Republic during the 1916 - 1920 Irish War for Independence. While Patrick was an ardent Irish nationalist and supported the War he was initially hesitant to accept the Presidency as he didn't feel himself up to the task. However after a discussion with other Irish rebel leaders in Cork, the provisional capital of the country while Dublin was still in British hands Patrick would change his mind and accept the office. The War however quickly devolved from open conflict to a sustained guerrilla war as the British Army declared marshal law over the entire Irish island after the defeat of the initial uprising. Patrick would run his country from home or one of the many safehouses across Ireland as the British continued to close in on him. Eventually, 1920 Patrick was captured and forced to sign a peace deal that officially ended the war even though the Irish Army continued to fight until the Battle of Belfast a year later. Patrick would be exiled from the UK and die when the ship he was crossing the Atlantic in sunk. While he is seen by modern Irish as a rebel and traitor to The Crown he is regarded as a hero and martyr in Irish Nationalist circles.

Leave it to the Canadians to bomb their own troops and call it a victory.

 

[Pragmatic Progressive]

A line taken from the notes of the 1st session of the Oireachtas, the legislative body of the new Irish Republic during the 1916 - 1920 Irish War for Independence. While Patrick was an ardent Irish nationalist and supported the War he was initially hesitant to accept the Presidency as he didn't feel himself up to the task. However after a discussion with other Irish rebel leaders in Cork, the provisional capital of the country while Dublin was still in British hands Patrick would change his mind and accept the office. The War however quickly devolved from open conflict to a sustained guerrilla war as the British Army declared marshal law over the entire Irish island after the defeat of the initial uprising. Patrick would run his country from home or one of the many safehouses across Ireland as the British continued to close in on him. Eventually, 1920 Patrick was captured and forced to sign a peace deal that officially ended the war even though the Irish Army continued to fight until the Battle of Belfast a year later. Patrick would be exiled from the UK and die when the ship he was crossing the Atlantic in sunk. While he is seen by modern Irish as a rebel and traitor to The Crown he is regarded as a hero and martyr in Irish Nationalist circles.

Leave it to the Canadians to bomb their own troops and call it a victory.

Reprimand by Walther von Lüttwitz - he came to power in Germany after a successful Kapp Putsch - to his subordinates, to not bomb German troops in the chaos that was the Russian Civil War (1930-1941). The Canadians blundered in Detroit and other places of Michigan where they had accidentally bombarded their own troops instead of communist American troops.
Incidents of friendly fire could not be wholly prevented, but they were significantly reduced and Germany, together with Poland, Slovakia and Hungary and Romania managed to liberate most territory of Russia west of the Taymyr Peninsula from the Soviet Union.

"Lenin is fake news! James Connolly was the only true communist to have ever lived!"

 

[Oliveia]

"Lenin is fake news! James Connolly was the only true communist to have ever lived!"

Quote from the Glorious Times of Eire, the weekly newspaper commonly used in the pariah state of Ireland (officially: The True, Righteous, and Glorious State of Eire, Who Alone Protects the Irish People). The nation is notorious for her brainwashing tactics and choice of silence in the international community.

"Sir Rhodes once spoke of 'Cape Town to Cairo', but many didn't believe it could be done. And yet, only a little past two decades later, Britain would have rails from Cape Town to Calcutta! Yes, the British Empire is one of good workers and plentiful resources, and now she rules the land, the sea, and rails!"

 

[CountDVB]

"Sir Rhodes once spoke of 'Cape Town to Cairo', but many didn't believe it could be done. And yet, only a little past two decades later, Britain would have rails from Cape Town to Calcutta! Yes, the British Empire is one of good workers and plentiful resources, and now she rules the land, the sea, and rails!"

A British informant talking to a US official ion regards to the current dominance of the British Empire of the Eastern half of Africa (barring Ethiopia) and to West Asia. This would lead to the US doubling efforts on courting West Africa and assisting to help rebuild many of the former slave-home nations, which managed to get support from both sides, even if took alot of logistical power in reorganizing the former nations. Many would make similar claims of US influence from Rabut to Kongo City.

"In the same way the United States of America dominates the Americas, this new United States of the Kongo is dominating Africa!"

 

[Shiva]

A British informant talking to a US official ion regards to the current dominance of the British Empire of the Eastern half of Africa (barring Ethiopia) and to West Asia. This would lead to the US doubling efforts on courting West Africa and assisting to help rebuild many of the former slave-home nations, which managed to get support from both sides, even if took alot of logistical power in reorganizing the former nations. Many would make similar claims of US influence from Rabut to Kongo City.

"In the same way the United States of America dominates the Americas, this new United States of the Kongo is dominating Africa!"

Stated by Euroasian reporter Maria Jane von de la Elcanoe de Składkowski as part of the beginnings of a series about the rise of the USK in Africa and the USA in the Americas, two massive 'Republics' that in truth were brutal dictatorships born out of the ashes of the Third Great War. After the chemical devastation of much of the world, global politics came to be dominated by the three great powers, the Federation of Euroasia, The United States of America, and the United States of the Kongo. It was von de la Elcanoe de Składkowski's view that a Fourth War was imminent between the great powers, however no one predicted that out of the toxified ruins of east asia that a fourth power would rise in the form of the Greater Asian Sphere, formed from the ruins of what was once Sha China, the Goryeo Empire, and Mughal Indus that would throw off the balance of the three powers and create 'the Cold Peace'.

"Never thought I'd see the day that a drag queen would become an actual Queen."

 

[Glide08]

"In the same way the United States of America dominates the Americas, this new United States of the Kongo is dominating Africa!"

From the Inauguration Speech of Patrice Lubumba as President of the United States of the Kongo, circa 1960.

"We have no doubt about your health, boss. The Issues we suspect you have are a lot more... intimate."

 

[Jack-Ryan]

"We have no doubt about your health, boss. The Issues we suspect you have are a lot more... intimate."

An unnamed UFC fighter (allegedly a Light Heavyweight) stated this to Dana White in a recorded conversation when the fighter wanted to speak to his boss due to suspicions on his part. The "intimate" issues were not anything of the at-home variety, but rather allegations of fight-fixing and collusion therein. Incensed by such accusations (and by the fact that many of the accusers were in some form or fashion high profile), Dana White voluntarily submitted the UFC for investigation into such issues, hoping to put them to rest. The findings of the investigation turned out to be quite interesting, to put it mildly. While there was no fixing of fights going on on Dana White's part, there was much fixing of fights going on on the part of gambling agents, members of press, and even some individual fighters. While himself cleared of wrongdoing, White has taken temporary hiatus to serve as witness in further investigations of other MMA companies. Time will tell how many fights and fighters are indeed real.

"Well, shoot-fighting is pretty different from wrestling, but I did okay at least." Phillip "CM Punk" Brooks.

 

[Sextus Munatius Piso]

"Well, shoot-fighting is pretty different from wrestling, but I did okay at least." Phillip "CM Punk" Brooks.

Former 4-time UFC Lightweight Champion Phillip Brooks made his pro wrestling debut for NJPW at Wrestle Kingdom 14, defeating Minoru Suzuki for the IWGP Intercontinental title in the latter's retirement match.

"May God bless the Tsar of all Slavia. From the Baltic to the Mediterranean and Black Seas, from the Urals to the Oder, may his reign forever prosper" — Patriarch of Constantinople

 

[BlazedSoulofHate]

Former 4-time UFC Lightweight Champion Phillip Brooks made his pro wrestling debut for NJPW at Wrestle Kingdom 14, defeating Minoru Suzuki for the IWGP Intercontinental title in the latter's retirement match.

"May God bless the Tsar of all Slavia. From the Baltic to the Mediterranean and Black Seas, from the Urals to the Oder, may his reign forever prosper" — Patriarch of Constantinople

The Coronation of Alexander I Rurikovich of Slavia, Tsar of Russia, King of Poles and Lithuanians, Emperor of Greece, Lord of the Southern Slavs, anointed by God. Alexander l was the Tsar of Russia and was elected by the Sejm of the Commonwealth due to the influence from loyalists to the House of Saxony his maternal uncle placed there during his time as King. Alexander then used his new troops in a massive invasion of the Ottoman Empire that kicked the Turk's out of Europe. He was crowned as Imperator in the Hagia Sophia in 1744. His greatest threat is the Ali Sultanate in Egypt and Arabia.

"It is with the greatest joy that I send our armies to press the will of God upon the heathens to the south" - Shah Jahan III, Emperor of the Mughals.

 

[CountDVB]

"It is with the greatest joy that I send our armies to press the will of God upon the heathens to the south" - Shah Jahan III, Emperor of the Mughals.

The Shah of the Mughal Empire declaring his holy war in the name of the "Church of the East" against the Dravidian Coalition of the south. Unfortunately, the various disputes and fractures within the Mughal Empire along with the rebellion of the Sikhs and Zoroastrians would cause the collapse of the Empure. The Mughal Empire would be confined over in the Khwarezm region before spreading up north by gaining more Tatar peoples while Iran would reunite under a new Zoroastrian dynasty and allied with the new Khalistan Empire, consititng of Transoxiana, Khorasan, Punjab, along with the area down south. The Dravidian Coalition would unite and permanently divide India between South and North while the Bengals would come to dominate the north.

"The Church of the East survives in Tatarstan and they are willing to assist us!"

 

[Aurantiacis]

"The Church of the East survives in Tatarstan and they are willing to assist us!"

After the great extravagant split of the Russian Empire and then the hastily-pieced Eastern and Western Russian Federations, North Asia was chaotic and filled with warlords scrambling to take power. Over the years, the disarray has settled down somewhat from a blood-filled melting pot of beliefs, puppet rulers, and artillery and military into three factions each hoping to restore Russia to its former glory, torn apart from drastic ideological beliefs. One, the Russian Party of the People, has itself centered somewhat around the north of Central Asia and Europe. The RPP was a confederation of republics and anarchy zones, each one filled with at least one industrial city that they each hold on and are armed to the teeth. This particular faction fought on the no-man's land in a stalemate until something looked more bright for the future of the RPP, when one of the factions fell due to the new technology from Europe filling in and crashing the former major Russian corporates. The RPP now faced the Russian initiatives, and the two clashed on while the world steadily avoided the war. The war would finally end with the Theocratical Clique of the Golden Tatars rising up from defeating the State of Buryatia and the Altai Republic. It would nearly make its own faction when the RPP would negotiate with the now called Tataric Republic and agree on finally ending this bloodbath once and for all. The Russian Schism will end with the RPP officially taking power again and filling the power vaccum left behind and would continue repairing Russian after 60 years of war.

"The battles on Morrakoch [Morocco] continue, but good news I behold: The following kingdoms subjugate now into our realm:
Kingdom of Sus, Kingdom of Fez Zan, Kingdom of Futa-Jaolo, the Ma'alian [Malian] warlords, though we will crush one rebellious one later.
I too request for large ships for the Portesgalle [Portuguese] corsairs that hoard and steal gold and our shipments; they are stationed at the Ganauche Islands temporarily."

 

[H.Flashman(VC)]

The battles on Morrakoch [Morocco] continue, but good news I behold: The following kingdoms subjugate now into our realm:
Kingdom of Sus, Kingdom of Fez Zan, Kingdom of Futa-Jaolo, the Ma'alian [Malian] warlords, though we will crush one rebellious one later.
I too request for large ships for the Portesgalle [Portuguese] corsairs that hoard and steal gold and our shipments; they are stationed at the Ganauche Islands temporarily."

Part of the first State of union of the divine president for life of the Malian Islamic Peoples Republic, Mansa Musa XLII.

"Economics is bunk" Henry Ford

 

[IntellectuallyHonestRhino]

"Economics is bunk" Henry Ford

American investor and businessman Henry Ford found his automobile ventures failing due to the incredibly low wages he paid his employees for "the thriftiest T-13's in town". His famous words were a reaction to his interview right after declaring bankruptcy. The entrepreneur later found his career in the newly founded John Birch society, whose goals were to ensure that Leon Trostky's USSR not "expand into America's frontiers". He won the Senate race for Alaska and was a two term Senator, before losing to Anthony Dimond.


"Seize the means of production." - Milton Friedman.

 

[ThatOneGuy]

"Seize the means of production." - Milton Friedman.

Quote by economist Milton Friedman at the 1977 London Economic Conference as a parody of what many Western economists think he advocates for. Born in NYC at the height of the Red Summer in the USA Milton's life was soon intertwined with that of the progression of Socialist thought. His father was killed in the crackdown and his mother, beset by grief was taken in by the Socialist Coalition of America run trauma center. Milton would become fascinated by the economic system that resulted in the Red Summer and the inadvertent death of his father and was slowly drawn into the Socialist camp. He quickly became the foremost thinker of economic Socialist thought and his first economic work, On the Plight of the American Worker was lauded as the next step in Socialist advancement. It speculated that an export based economy could be used to export the Revolution and break down harmful tariff barriers While contemporary economists derided it as to fantastical to work, it became the foundation for Premier Beria's New Economy Plan in the USSR after Stalin's death in 1955. After it was shown to work in large part (due to the USSR's lack of reservation about the public well being in pursuit of a functioning economy) in helping the struggling Soviet economy Friedman was summoned to Moscow to be awarded a Hero of the Soviet Union award in 1962. He lived in Moscow the rest of his life.

"The German State is a poison to Europe and must be destroyed if Europe is to survive!" Adolf Hitler

 

[IntellectuallyHonestRhino]

"The German State is a poison to Europe and must be destroyed if Europe is to survive!" Adolf Hitler

Austrian Chancellor Adolf Hitler's views on the rise of Fascist Germany under Joseph Goebbels. His views were expressed to Polish premier Joseph Pilsudski, a lifelong friend throughout the interwar period till the latter's death.

"All hail united Europe! This grand project shall not die in vain!" - Viktor Orban.

 

[Aurantiacis]

"All hail united Europe! This grand project shall not die in vain!" - Viktor Orban.

A quote from Viktor Orban, an engineer of the Hungarian engineering project Great United Europe, which included building a giant dome as large as a city, which was before thought as structrually impossible. Viktor got so obsessed with the project that he slowly degraded into madness, believing that he was sent by God to make this and made the project's ambitions more and more theocratical. When the project's funds severely dropped following the collapse of the Soviet Union, he supposed claimed this. The project is now half-finished and abandoned near the Hungarian countryside, and is remade into a museum and a community has even blossomed up there.

"The Russians are a fly and us all are the boot. In our army, retreating back to heartland would take more courage than advancing upon the vile Northerners." -Joseph Stalin