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Re: [WW] wolfenstein link (a touch OT)
I dont know about you guys, but Im jazzed. I thought you'd all like to see
this.
http://activision.com/games/wolfenstein/
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
>From: "Theron Bretz" <tbretz@io.com>
>Reply-To: weirdwars@gamerz.net
>To: <weirdwars@gamerz.net>
>Subject: Re: [WW] Brutes, Tolkien, and the OSI
>Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:49:04 -0500
>
> >Actually, that's just a leftover typo. ;)
>
>Oh sure, hide the truth behind a "reasonable explanation". Go ahead, just
>try. The truth will come out, and it's more incomprehensible than the
>armament configuration on a Blackburn Roc[1]. It's as inexplicable as the
>Grand Panjandram[2]. It's as enigmatic as...well...Enigma[3]. Hide it
>behind ULTRA and MAGIC all you wish, but it will come out, oh yes.... [Big
>Grin]
>
>Theron
>Houston
>(Who tried to send this once already; apologies to all if the original
>re-surfaces.)
>
>[1] The slowest aircraft in the Royal Navy, the Roc had the lowest top
>speed
>of any combat plane in WWII. Accordingly, its only armament faced the
>rear.
>
>[2] An almost indescribable experiment by the Royal Navy (them again) to
>create a device for clearing a beach of mines and obstacles. Imagine two
>large wheels, side by side on a common axle. Put rockets around the
>perimeter of the wheel so that when they ignite, they spin the wheels. See
>the locked axle cause said device to fall over all too easily.
>
>[3] Self-explanatory to a student of the period.
>
>
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