OFF: UK Charts

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On tor 6 aug 1998 09.41 +0200 "Hulsebos A" <arjanh at CS.VU.NL> wrote:
> On Aug 5,  6:45pm, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
>>     I'm a historian, and as such have an excellent understanding
>>that wars are _dangerous_.  I prefer armchair-generalship as both
>>cheaper and safer :)
>
> You don't have to be a historian to see that. However, nowadays it's
> relative safe to be a military, as was widnessed in Bosnia, and even
> in the Gulf war, if you were on the "right" side.

     True enough.  Overwhelming superiority of fire-power is
always good to have.

>>Snazzy
>>modern interceptors like the F-16 and -15 put me to sleep :)
>
> But they look more sexy.....

     Well, "sexy" is in the eye of the beholder, as they say.
I'll leave them to the "Kings of Speed" (another almost
on-topic reference! :)

Cheers,
Carl

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/