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Posted by maraudingsaxon (U3567176) on Thursday, 11th May 2006
Apparently in 1769 we went to war with the french I think when a British sailor had an ear cut off. Does anyone else know of stupid or crazy reasons why a war or battle was fought. And yes I know all war is stupid.
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Posted by Backtothedarkplace (U2955180) on Thursday, 11th May 2006
Wasnt it spain? I do know it rejoices in the name of the "War of Jenkins Ear" apart from that all I can remeber is that he was under spanish law Smuggling in the Caribean and the spanish customs officer cut his ear off. He produced it in the houses of parliament during the debate over whether we went to war or not.
cheers
apparently he was carrying it in a parcel when he came through customs - they unwrapped it and said "Whats this ear"
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Posted by marduk-slayer of tiamat (U2258525) on Thursday, 11th May 2006
du-dum-ch!
thats just silly!
Two South American countries were having border disputes. Then they had a soccer match and it was a tripwire for a war.
Cheers, Matt.
BS
think it was el salvador and Honduras - AND that is not a silly reason to go to war
Any england losses should be followed by cruise missiles
MR
it may be silly but its old and good - I always use that one when my kids come home from school after learning about Van Gogh te-he
Cheers ST
What, aimed at the supporters wanting to take their frustrations out on foreigners?
Are we still taking part in the World Cup???? To read the papers, now that the one and only chance of us scoring a goal has broken a bone in his foot, we have no chance at all of even scoring a goal, never mind winning a match. So why bother?????
lolbee
sorry was that aimed at me ??
st
A cruise missile or the comment?
:} the comment (i think)
Falklands/Malvinas 1982.
It wasn't like the UN were going to do anything about it.
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