Swarbrick S111

[GILow]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

'No plan survives first contact with the enemy'... old military saying.

Yes, a good saying.

Not sure I am ENTIRELY comfortable putting his absolutely lovely wife in that context though.

[El Pinguino]

OK .. try this then..
'No plan survives first contact with the enemy SWMBO.

[GILow]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

OK .. try this then..
'No plan survives first contact with the enemy SWMBO.

Very good. And you get an extra point if you can tell me who coined that phrase, and in which book.

[El Pinguino]

50/50 .. von Moltke / Rumpole for two points..

[GILow]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

50/50 .. von Moltke / Rumpole for two points..

Alas, up until now I had so much respect for you too...

Rumpole was, of course, only quoting from his boyhood reading of H. Rider Haggard, writer of such utterly brilliant (though now cringe makingly racist) stories as King Solomon's Mines.

She Who Must be Obeyed was the title given to the dreaded Amazonian Queen in his lesser known classic, titled simply "She".

Sorry for the long winded literature lecture, but with all these bloody yachties around me who know so much more about boats than I, I felt I needed to make myself appear smarter than I probably am.

My ego is now suitably salved.

Matt

[GILow]

But ok, one point for the first part of the quotation, the old Prussian was a bit of a philosopher.

[brianlara 3]

STREWTH MATT ! For a bloke who hates propane & Honda generators you're a clever bugger.