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Adsos Letter

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6. I loved Connections!

Reply to zipplewrath (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 20, 2011, 12:08 PM

Dec 2011

Burke seasoned that show with his fantastic dry English humor. He always started with a question like "how did the search for ripe blueberrys lead to development of the modern jetliner," or some such thing as that.

The segment that always comes to mind when I think of that show was the time he was demonstrating the lethality of the broadsword by hacking into a side of beef, and then saying something like "in battle that is all a man really is."

Thanks for reminding me! I've got several of them recorded on video tapes; I'll have to dig them out as a Christmas present to myself.

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Hew Strachan's First World War is really good, as you mentioned RZM Dec 2011 #1

Thanks! I'll check out your link tomorrow. Adsos Letter Dec 2011 #2

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