35 Replies to “Nuts!”

  2. I have noticed that “NO” is often an excellant/effective tactical stance….most adversary situations.
    It is both frustrating and intimidating.
    Calling bluff is the antidote/anethema to insincere brinksmanship….
    On the other hand it can inspire the aggressor/your oppressor to take it personal and to do something totally stupid.

  4. My father told me that during the war they would use the term “nuts” when dealing with the German guards. It always completely baffled them. Untranslatable slang that changed from verb to noun and meant so many things depending on the situation.

  5. Whoops! Too fast on the trigger there PiperPaul.
    “Nuts” was a famous quote from WW2.
    Mea culpa.

  8. Yeah, I know Cjunk. I (as a WW2 enthusiast) am now hanging my virtual head in shame.
    But wait! Maybe aliens caused me to mistake one for the other. Yeah, that’s it, and I’m sticking to my story no matter what.

  10. I was going to say it’s nice to see some people still have a backbone, but it’s Texas, I’d expect nothing less.

  17. Barry isn’t used to people calling his bluff . . . he’s lived in the progressive world for so long, a world that coddled and nurtured his ambitions, he’s used to getting his way.
    Texans tend to be folks that call ’em as they see ’em.
    Sorry Barry . . . you bluffed and now you are forced to fold on a weak hand.

  18. A six page letter that amounts to a phrase not welcome in the filter here so I won’t use it but it starts with a G, ends with an F and is three words long.
    Man, ya gotta love them Texans.

  19. Atlantic Jim is closer to real history than “Nuts”. Apparently that word was substituted by the PR folks for the general’s actual two words which implied sex and travel. A bit of history was rewritten for public consumption, a process which continues to this day.

  20. It always confounded my German grandfather how when offered honourable surrender, the allies ( and home front) cheered defiance..but could not understand why when faced with a similar situation, why the German soldier would not surrender, as if duty and honour was only an allied trait…

  21. Fred:
    I thought “Don’t mess with Texas” was some old rallying cry from its days as an independent republic. I was quite surprised to find out (just a few weeks ago, in fact) that it originated in the 1960’s as an anti-litter slogan from their department of highways. Doesn’t have quite the same ring when you know the story..

  23. I’ve got a special magazine: World War II ‘the untold story’ with George S Patton on the cover with feature article ‘Patton at Bastogne’. Describes how he anticipated the battle and prepped for it before anyone else. he has what he called his ‘war face’, that grim determined look.

  24. who hasn’t figured aviator’s skill testing Q?
    go f*** yourself if you haven’t.

  26. Peggy noonan has a very interesting article in the WP today. It is now faintly concievable that some states might ultimately secede.

  27. Obama and the Democrats see conservative Texas and its relative economic strength as a threat, both now and in the future, and they will do what they can to cut the state off at its knees.

  30. To put it in the words of a an infamous former Prime Minister of Canada (who shall be nameless)
    “FUDDLE DUDDLE” to the EPA 😉

  32. Another great historical quote is from the battle of Waterloo….as Napoleons army crumbled being attacked from both the front (British, Dutch, Belguim) and the right rear flank (prussians) Napoleon’s Imperial Guard made a stand to buy him time to to escape and regroup the army…the british told the Guard they had done all that the honour of war had required and should surrender…lots of historians record the Guards answer as “the imperial guard dies but it nevers surrenders”….when in truth the answer was “MERDE”….”SH!T” basicly the 1815 french version of “GO F*** Yourself” they were slaughtered……

  33. madmaxxx
    Yeah Waterloo…
    The Iron Duke….the Old Guard and the determined Blucher….
    Waterloo did not lack for giants………

  34. A factor often overlooked about the Battle of Bastogne….
    The resolve of the 101st Airbourne was a big factor but the tactical genius of McAuliffe in accurately anticipating the varying axis of attack by the Germans and deploying reserves and shifting forces to resist the varying attacks.
    Indeed the resolute resistance of the 101st Airbourne played an important psychological role…
    There is an unresolved debate about whether McAuliffe’s response was “nuts” or something much more colourful.
    Either would have defied general/standard translation/comprehension……profanities/obscenities are extremely culture specific….

  35. Almost forgotten is the small unit actions of American soldiers who held up German advances just long enough to upset the time schedule the German were constrained to meet.
    German forces needed to be held to a strict schedule as the fuel was only expected to last x number of hours, and even when you are not moving, those vehicle engines must be kept running, using up fuel every minute you waste.

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