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- From: hhenderson@vax.clarku.edu
- Subject: RE: Balls etc. (was Madonna's new book)
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- Date: 18 NOV 92 19:43:47 GMT
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- kasprj@jec322.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) answers my question
- re: the monosyllabic WWII general:
-
- > The way I heard the story, it was General Anthony McAuliffe of the
- >101st Airborne. He recieved a rather succinct note from a German
- >liason which read as follows:
- >
- > To the American Commander:
- >
- > Surrender.
- >
- > The German Commander.
- >
- > McAuliffe regarded this note with a "you can't be serious" look, and
- >proceeded to write his reply:
- >
- >To the German Commander:
- >
- > Nuts!
- >
- > The American Commander.
- >
- > The German envoy, not being familiar with the phrase, asked the
- >general just what "nuts" meant. McAuliffe, who was really losing
- >his patience by this point, said "It means 'fuck off'!"
- >McAuliffe proceeded to get on with the business of winning the war,
- >which he regarded as rather more important than eloquent writing.
-
- I think McAuliffe was *quite* eloquent, but without being verbose.
- He must have read Strunk & White's little volume -- a book I
- highly recommend to M. Zeleny.
-
- Heather
- HHENDERSON@vax.clarku.edu
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