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From: "Richard Seddon" <ricks@swcp.com>
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Subject: Re: hot dogs
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 12:55:57 -0600
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The Brit pilots who used  their spitfires' wings to tip the wings of german
glide bombs causing the bomb to crash have to be the supreme successful hot
doggers of all time,

for classical hot doggers how about Achilles sulking on the beach

Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM, USA
-----Original Message-----
From: Alfred M Kriman <akriman@darwin.helios.nd.edu>
To: classics@u.washington.edu <classics@u.washington.edu>
Date: Friday, April 06, 2001 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: hot dogs


>David Lupher:
>> But my favorite example is not Greek, but U.S.---the Union general
>> in the Civil War (I keep forgetting his name) whose immortal last
>> words were: "Don't worry, boys.  They couldn't hit an elephant
>> at this dist----"
>
>Major General John Sedgwick, commander of the Union Sixth Corps at
>the Battle of Spotsylvania, May 9, 1864.  He wasn't cut off in
>midsentence, though.  He was killed by a sniper while prowling the
>front lines, shortly after chiding some more cautious infantrymen
>with his immortal "couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
>
>With the proper nouns, you can search the internet and read who
>killed him at what distance and with what gun.
>
>

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