Gallipoli myth

[snuffles_macgoo]

> Storm: galloplli (where the british sent the ANZACs -
> > > Austalian and New 
> > > Zealand Army
> > > > Corp - to die). 
> David asked:
> > > Do you mean: The British saw the operation as
> > > high-risk and sent the 
> > > expendable Australians and New Zealanders,
> > > 
> > > or: The British wanted to murder the ANZACs, and
> > > Gallipolli was an 
> > > appropriate mechanism?
> 
<snip>
> 
> But it does interest me to know what Australians believe.

err Australians believe (I feel confident in talking for my adopted 
countypeople on this) the former. Although you could find RLS* type 
blokes to agree to the later I am sure <g>
> 
> I'm told that in Russia, they believe that if you use Microsoft 
> software, a little program transmits everything you do back for 
Uncle 
> Sam to analyse as part of his ongoing plan to dominate the universe.
> 
> Don't you find stuff like that just too fascinating for words?

oh excellent! Well I'm sure Uncle Sam is finding all this talk of 
Harry Potter very interesting AND helpful in the whole world 
domination scheme!

storm

*Returned Service man's League. An odd organisation about which I 
know little. The Federal body have a reasonable man at the head at 
present but the Victoran (?) branch had a right corker for a time, 
who was mad as a meat axe and as racist (about everybody) as you 
could possibly be.