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I just bought "History of the English-Speaking Peoples" by Churchill


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Wowzers. I paid $9.99 for mine. Plus tax.

 

He's hilarious. Some chapters bog down, but they're peppered with these one-liners that are so funny, it keeps you going. Many of those one-liners have entered the M family lore, and our favorite from Churchill is the last sentence in this paragraph:

 

At this point the march of invention brought a new factor upon the scene. Iron was dug and forged. Men armed with iron entered Britain from the Continent and killed the men of bronze. At this point we can plainly recognise across the vanished millenniums a fellow-being. A biped capable of slaying another with iron is evidently to modern eyes a man and a brother. It cannot be doubted that for smashing skulls... iron is best.

 

Maybe I should put that in my signature line? That, and an avatar like Doran's: Make Tea Not War.

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