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Re: Answers & Questions Q: Dude, it turned half the party to stone! A: I could be wrong...

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What was the problem with cloning the Disney Heroines? A: It's strictly for the birds.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Oxygene II - Jean Michel Jarre

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Name three things that make you stupid. A: Set Phasers to "Defenestrate".

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? No Promises - Icehouse

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What will become the standard method of dealing with people who exceed the credit limit? A: No, we're out of that. Would you prefer a Fruit-Bat Danish?

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Hello - Lionel Richie

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? I Can't Let Go - Air Supply.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What's the problem with our new show, Anthropomorphic Personification Deathmatch? A: This is not my Ostrich.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Making Love Out Of Nothing At All - Air Supply.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What would Lovecraft have to say about modern times? A: Wait until he's hungry again.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Theme to Penn and Teller's Bullshit.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? A Red Letter Day - Pet Shop Boys.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: How's the Helium business going? A: No, it's much more important. It's my lunch.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Clearly! Currently: Call Me - Go West

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? No One is to Blame - Howard Jones

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Sir, the Cockroach is tap-dancing again! A: I don't think that's going to work.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Lyrics from My Chinese Yacht: A: This is my barricade. And this is my shotgun.

Re: Who was WWII's most important leader? True - I had forgotten Galland. But as you point out, take out Goering and Galland would not have filled his place - he was too junior. The best you could hope for would be someone who would listen to Galland more than Goering did.

Re: Who was WWII's most important leader? Because the SS was many things to many people, where the SA was far more unified. Your basic SS soldier was a combination soldier/policeman/Comissar. He believed in the Nazi ideals and enforced the law - often brutally, but also professionally. The organization saw itself as elite, and many of it's members tried to live up to that. Then there was the Waffen-SS, part of the same organization, but separate. And the Waffen-SS was highly variable - there were units that upheld the highest standards of professional soldierly conduct. And there were also the Totenkopf (Death's Head) units that ran the extermination camps. In comparison, consider that the entire SA could have been considered Totenkopf units.

Re: Who was WWII's most important leader? I don't entirely agree. Goering was overconfident and underprepared; had he had underlings willing to stand up to him and make him pay attention he could have done a much better job. However, eliminate Goering and you'll just get somebody mildly better, as the Luftwaffe as a whole had a bad case of overconfidence in the days before the BoB. If you want to change things, take out Heinrich Himmler. Himmler had the distinction of doing an exceptional job - among the Nazi high command, he and Admiral Donitz stand out for sheer competence, and the SS (particularly the Waffen-SS) had a very strong effect on the war. Not to mention that if you take HImmler out of the equation early enough, you have a real question whether the 'Night of the Long Knives' could ever have been carried off successfully - and the frightening concept of Ernst Rohm and his SA thugs taking centre stage in the European theatre.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What put you in the hospital? A: My Phalanx is made of Phail.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Did you hear that they can now make artificial beer out of garbage? A: That's not water.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? If You Love Somebody Set Them Free - Sting.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What do you mean everyone's ancestor was named "Barney"? A: Don't move, or I WON'T shoot the purple dinosaur!