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« Reply #25 on: October 06, 2011, 01:56:50 pm » |
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I think you're talking about putting the two men against each other as commanders rather than in a ring and, if that's the case and we're talking about Custer as he was at The Big Horn, then I'd probably agree. However, in the arena described, Custer, who usually equipped himself more like a frontier gunfighter than a Cavalry Officer, would have something of an advantage. He also, from contemporary accounts, had no compunction about shooting another man down, be it face to face, in the back, armed or unarmed. A better Officer of the period might be hampered by honour....
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« Reply #26 on: October 06, 2011, 02:17:16 pm » |
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I'm not sure either would have been concerned with honor, that's what would make it such a good fight. Hand to hand: Burnham, swords: Custer, pistols: I'm not sure, rifles: Burnham, boasting: Custer.  Burnham fought guerrilla style against Boer guerrillas who had been fighting that way a lot longer. To me, that gives him a huge advantage on any level over Custer who was a glory-seeker. I wish we could test this out. |
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« Reply #27 on: October 08, 2011, 01:30:08 pm » |
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I believe the Brunel/Babbage Match would go something like this: Babbage would engage Brunel in a long, detailed discussion of the possibilities. In the meanwhile, Miss Lovelace would re-program the scoreboard to advertise Brunel's defeat.  |
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At Your Service
"It's so hard to know if you're bound for a fall,
But better to have tripped than never danced at all."
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« Reply #28 on: October 08, 2011, 07:14:31 pm » |
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Teddy" THE BULL MOOSE" RRROOOOOOSSSSEVVVVVEELLLLTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vs any and all comers
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We love the land of Liberty, It's laws we will revere
but the devil take the nobility, says the Irish Volunteers!
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« Reply #29 on: October 08, 2011, 07:16:41 pm » |
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Teddy" THE BULL MOOSE" RRROOOOOOSSSSEVVVVVEELLLLTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vs any and all comers
Progressive Republican War Hero Adventurer....I love him. (the first two are such a duality today that he is perfect) |
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« Reply #30 on: October 09, 2011, 06:29:07 pm » |
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! Progressive Republican War Hero Adventurer....I love him. (the first two are such a duality today that he is perfect) [/quote] T.R.- the Chuck Norris of the late 19th-early 20th centuries- only he was real... |
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« Reply #31 on: October 09, 2011, 06:34:48 pm » |
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! Progressive Republican War Hero Adventurer....I love him. (the first two are such a duality today that he is perfect) T.R.- the Chuck Norris of the late 19th-early 20th centuries- only he was real... [/quote] Chuck Norris vs. Teddy....Teddy wins, no question. |
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« Reply #32 on: October 10, 2011, 07:15:27 am » |
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It's interesting to observe the differences a century makes - TR would have a bearskin mounted in the White House, not a blue dress... |
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« Reply #33 on: June 05, 2012, 11:24:38 am » |
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Not quite the same thing but it didn't seem worth starting a whole new thread just for this post. This thread seems close enough.
In this month''s VIZ Comic (adolescent humour for men who never grew up) there is a strip called 'Nikola Testicla' featuring the steampunk icon and his attempts to get his 'alternating current' electricity accepted (which is generated from from his..well..the his name says it all really). The authorities are not impressed with electrical power generated in one's underwear but then opt for Edison's invention '..The 'Bum-hole Battery'.
Well..it is 'VIZ'.....
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I say, Joe it's jolly frightening out here.
Nonsense dear boy, you should be more like me.
But look at you! You're shaking all over!
Shaking? You silly goose! I'm just doing the Watusi
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« Reply #34 on: June 05, 2012, 11:35:01 am » |
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I've noticed a trend here, all the fights have been between male participants. Who's to say the fights would be limited by gender? Surely we could get a cat fight going? I mean fighting women were a popular form of entertainment in the victorian era.
So who'd we have? Ada Lovelace is a given, but who would her opponent be (other than her father)
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If tha knows about a better 'ole then tha can get thi sen in it!
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« Reply #35 on: June 05, 2012, 01:08:44 pm » |
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Do they have to be real? If not then I think Catherine Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights would make a feisty fighter. Otherwise Marie Curie could be a good match for Ada Lovelace with her invisible radioactive death rays.
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