OT: How The HELL Did They Do It?

[Kelly Green]

I put on the TV to check the weather for the day and it happened to be on The History Channel -- or just History as it now calls itself -- and caught the last three minutes of a program on Valley Forge.

Pardon me if I get serious here, but how in the HELL did Ben and the boys A) beat the British with a rag tag army of farmers, teachers and other assorted ordinary men -- and B) fashion a relatively new system of government that, while we all have our bitches from time to time, has turned out pretty damn nifty and is flourishing 200-plus years later?

Yeah, 200-plus years is about a quarter-inch on the yardstick of the history of man, but still, it doesn't make sense that it would succeed. Unreal.

By the way, thanks to all for your birthday wishes of yesterday. Twas appreciated (especially those of you who also sent me greetings on Facebook).

[Bardy]

Pardon me if I get serious here, but how in the HELL did Ben and the boys

Ben?

[RSE]

Les garcons.

[Drama Queen]

Hahaha

Bennie et les garçons

[Kelly Green]

Yeah

Ben Lefkowitz -- he was the janitor.

[Kelly Green]

Of Course...

...there were probably waiters in the army, too.

[Drama Queen]

Benedict Arnold?

He won against the British.

[Eagle Road]

[QUOTE=Kelly Green;1703830]I put on the TV to check the weather for the day and it happened to be on The History Channel -- or just History as it now calls itself -- and caught the last three minutes of a program on Valley Forge.

Pardon me if I get serious here, but how in the HELL did Ben and the boys A) beat the British with a rag tag army of farmers, teachers and other assorted ordinary men -- and B) fashion a relatively new system of government that, while we all have our bitches from time to time, has turned out pretty damn nifty and is flourishing 200-plus years later?

Yeah, 200-plus years is about a quarter-inch on the yardstick of the history of man, but still, it doesn't make sense that it would succeed. Unreal.



I guess if you want a serious answer I would say because they were committed to what they believed in enough to sacrifice all of their possessions, and wealth, along with their lives.

Something that I see no one Government willing to do since then.

JMHO.

[slag]

Garcons Dans Le Hood.

[slag]

Please ... sacrificed all their possessions and wealth?

The American Revolution is like everything else in this world ... Killing Them Softly (an ok rendition of a George V. Higgins novel) has a good last line by Brad Pitt's hitman character:

"America isn't a country ... it's a business ... now pay me my fucking money"

[Drama Queen]

Les Beach Garcons

Garcons Dans Le Hood.

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[Two Gap Penetrator]

Pierre Garçon

Foreskinner.

[IronEagle]

[QUOTE=Eagle Road;1703842]

I put on the TV to check the weather for the day and it happened to be on The History Channel -- or just History as it now calls itself -- and caught the last three minutes of a program on Valley Forge.

Pardon me if I get serious here, but how in the HELL did Ben and the boys A) beat the British with a rag tag army of farmers, teachers and other assorted ordinary men -- and B) fashion a relatively new system of government that, while we all have our bitches from time to time, has turned out pretty damn nifty and is flourishing 200-plus years later?

Yeah, 200-plus years is about a quarter-inch on the yardstick of the history of man, but still, it doesn't make sense that it would succeed. Unreal.



I guess if you want a serious answer I would say because they were committed to what they believed in enough to sacrifice all of their possessions, and wealth, along with their lives.

Something that I see no one Government willing to do since then.

JMHO.

They also secured a lot of possessions and wealth by fighting the British, and the Native Americans.

JMHO

[Drama Queen]

Garconz to Men

Foreskinner.

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[Two Gap Penetrator]

Garçon George