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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Most Troubling Question Of All Time! |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:37 pm
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| I've always had a problem with this question myself . . . The whole movie is an allegory. My tendency is to say that he rides off to die, because he doesn't want to stay and have the boy see him die. He wants the boy's father, played by Van Heflin, to dominate the kid's thoughts, and if he stayed an... |
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Forum: Great War Movies and Series Topic: Movie Review - To Hell and Back (1955) |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:38 pm
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| To my mind, for a war hero Murphy wasn't all that bad as an actor. Not that he didn't appear in some lousy movies, but when Howard Hawks or John Huston got their directorial hands on him, he wasn't too bad at all. In my opinion, his best acting job was as the volatile brother of Burt Lancaster and A... |
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Forum: World War Two and Post WWII Topic: Book Review - The Era: 1947 - 1957 |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:03 pm
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| I've read this book, but I found it dry and "perfunctory." Not very inspired. Like the author wrote entirely from memory and skipped the research part. Hard to put my finger on it. Have you read Duke Snider's autobiography? "The Duke of Flatbush"? You might enjoy the behind-the-s... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Pointless Civil War Trivia |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 7:39 am
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Replies: 39
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| "You did. You did indeed." |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Pointless Civil War Trivia |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:02 pm
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| A train entered the battlefield during the Battle of Front Royal, Virginia. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Pointless Civil War Trivia |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 10:11 pm
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LG Stickler . . .
Not a trick question. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Pointless Civil War Trivia |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 4:32 pm
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| You're right as far as you go; there were trains at Manassas which were captured by enemy troops marauding behind lines. My question, however, deals with a train which entered an active field of battle, between the forces, while one side was advancing on another. |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Pointless Civil War Trivia |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 4:15 pm
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Pointless Civil War Trivia |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 6:47 pm
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No no no . . . This isn't "Twenty Questions" . . . No more hints . . .
Any one out there know this one? |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Pointless Civil War Trivia |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 9:17 am
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| Well after general firing had erupted, and one side was advancing on the other with the intent of driving those opponents from their position . . . A regularly scheduled train emerged on tracks that ran across the path of the advancing troops. This happened during an actual 1862 Civil War battle. Wh... |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Pointless Civil War Trivia |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 1:08 pm
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| My favorite Civil War trivia question is: With so many hundreds of thousands of bullets fired during the battle at Gettysburg, why don't any of the monuments have any bullet holes in them? |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Troops entering water hexes |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 9:08 am
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Troops entering water hexes |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 8:58 am
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| In the info area of the units, is there a little "B" next to their movement allowance? |
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Forum: Mason Dixon Tavern Topic: Campaign surrender ettiquette |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 12:57 pm
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| Once, in the finale scenario of a Franklin campaign, at a point where I had just achieved a minor-level victory, my opponent put in a termination bid at the current level. I refused the bid because I wanted the chance to attain a major victory . . . Whereupon my opponent refused to continue. That wa... |
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Forum: Wargame Design Studio (WDS) and John Tiller Software (JTS) Campaign Games Topic: Campaign |
| Dwight McBride |
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Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:33 pm
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Replies: 4
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| Sir: I am sorry you didn't receive my message. What is your email address? Perhaps it would be better to send a message directly to you, instead of through the club's 'personal message' system. I only play in phases, not single turn style. If you would like to play a Vicksburg campaign in phases, wi... |
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