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Edward Yee wrote:Hey, for the Brits it'd also let them celebrate both Yahweh's death AND the day they got us Americans to be nominally eternally indebted to the French. (Credit to its original poster on HPCA.)

Bah. Normandy squared us.

Stuart wrote:

Erra wrote:Yeah, this whole concept of Ehlmas or Yahweh being wingless seems to have sprout out of no where with no actual basis in the story.

I was wondering where that came from. They both have (or had) wings.

I'll admit that I thought they were wing-less, mostly because I thought that they were another class of powerful humanoids as opposed to being on the "gigantic" end of the angelic/demonic race.

CaptainChewbacca wrote:You couldn't make it July 4th?

Nope, it's a secret plot to squash Bastille Day into obscurity, even in France, under an even bigger holiday.

Gil Hamilton wrote:

CaptainChewbacca wrote:You couldn't make it July 4th?

Nope, it's a secret plot to squash Bastille Day into obscurity, even in France, under an even bigger holiday.

Oh God, I did a spit-take. Thank you.

So after 918 days the war's over.

CaptainChewbacca wrote:Bah. Normandy squared us.

Not even squaring it can wipe it away, in the limeys' eyes... I'm not sure if the French even count it! [/facetiousness]

Darth Yan wrote:So after 918 days the war's over.

THIS war, sure. But unlike Alexander we're pretty sure there's a lot more worlds to conquer.

CaptainChewbacca wrote:

Edward Yee wrote:Hey, for the Brits it'd also let them celebrate both Yahweh's death AND the day they got us Americans to be nominally eternally indebted to the French. (Credit to its original poster on HPCA.)

Bah. Normandy squared us.

hehehehe, indeed it did.

Gil Hamilton wrote:

CaptainChewbacca wrote:You couldn't make it July 4th?

Nope, it's a secret plot to squash Bastille Day into obscurity, even in France, under an even bigger holiday.

I guess I'll continue my idiocy by adding that I thought the French reaction was that they were going to be even more uinsufferable.

Edit: Fixed the supremely stupid spelling error that westrim pointed out below

Edward Yee wrote:Hey, for the Brits it'd also let them celebrate both Yahweh's death AND the day they got us Americans to be nominally eternally indebted to the French. (Credit to its original poster on HPCA.)

I presume this has something to do something someone said on this "HPCA", but to my knowledge the only thing significantly French on that day (as mentioned above) is Bastille Day, which has little to do with the US. Maybe January 14th, the day the Treaty of Versailles was signed, but not July.

nobody_really wrote:I guess I'll continue my idiocy by adding that I thought the French reaction was that they were going to be even more unsufferable.

Hey, I'm confused too this time. They seem to be quoting a website (it is a website, I'm presuming?) assuming that everyone else has been there. Or merrily sharing an injoke and not telling us redshirts, because we'll die soon anyway.


By the way, it's insufferable *cough*

Just on the Topic of Special operations, what are the chances good old JTF could get a tiny shout out in story? If they already have, could I get pointed in the right direction of the chapter?

Who? Sorry, but I have no idea who you are talking about.

Night_stalker wrote:Who? Sorry, but I have no idea who you are talking about.

JTF, Canadian special forces. Functionally equivalent to The United states Navy SEALS, IIRC. Serve with Americans on Tier 1 operations.

Ahhh, my bad. As far as I know, they haven't been mentioned so far. Sorry.

I didn't think so, I don't remember any mention of it, but I haven't read Armageddon in a dogs age.

Night_stalker wrote:Ahhh, my bad. As far as I know, they haven't been mentioned so far. Sorry.

That's either a very good thing or a very bad thing.

barricade wrote:

MrCIA wrote:

LadyTevar wrote:Sometimes, you just gotta live up to the Reputation.

Leaving notes on the queens bed table does tend to give you something of a reputation.

Okay, this I want to hear about. Because I want to hear about both who's head rolled inside palace security, and also which unit pulled it off.

I can't find my old reference now, so take this as a "As I remember" combined with "Might be blowing smoke up your ass". The story is that after the Michael Fagan incident [Wiki] Buckingham palace upgraded it's security. To test the new measures palace security asked the SAS to try them out. The SAS agreed and sent men from B squadron 22nd regiment to infiltrate the palace undetected. Needless to say they were successful. They left a note on the queens bed table saying something to the effect of "Do not worry your majesty. You are well protected." Their report to palace security indicated several places where security could be improved. And as so far as I can find, Buckingham Palace has not been successfully infiltrated since.

westrim wrote:

Edward Yee wrote:Hey, for the Brits it'd also let them celebrate both Yahweh's death AND the day they got us Americans to be nominally eternally indebted to the French. (Credit to its original poster on HPCA.)

I presume this has something to do something someone said on this "HPCA", but to my knowledge the only thing significantly French on that day (as mentioned above) is Bastille Day, which has little to do with the US. Maybe January 14th, the day the Treaty of Versailles was signed, but not July.

nobody_really wrote:I guess I'll continue my idiocy by adding that I thought the French reaction was that they were going to be even more unsufferable.

Hey, I'm confused too this time. They seem to be quoting a website (it is a website, I'm presuming?) assuming that everyone else has been there. Or merrily sharing an injoke and not telling us redshirts, because we'll die soon anyway.


By the way, it's insufferable *cough*

The only thing that I know of as far as HPCA is that it's the History, Politics, and Current Affairs forum where The Big One originally lived.

I had been referring to Stuart not setting July 4th as Yahweh's death and CaptainChewbacca wondering about that; my attempted joke was borrowed wholesale from here.

Joint Task Force 2 (JTF 2) hasn't been named as such, but they may very well be one of the unnamed units near the Eternal City (and who knows how far they got?). However, they are not functionally equivalent to the SEALs, and there's more Canadian special ops units.

Stuart wrote:

Stuart Mackey wrote: There is more than one SAS unit, and they are not all British

Notice that General Petraeus said "their" reputation, not "its" reputation

Her Majesties Forces indeed!

DeRogue wrote:

Night_stalker wrote:Who? Sorry, but I have no idea who you are talking about.

JTF, Canadian special forces. Functionally equivalent to The United States Navy SEALS, IIRC. Serve with Americans on Tier 1 operations.

When a group's name is "Joint Task Force 2" you can't just throw it out there and expect everyone to know(Joint Task forces are all over the place- the HEA is one, unless it becomes a permanent body). However, I'm surprised to say that I did, from watching Flashpoint on TV.

See what I did there? (it feels weird using that) Context is key. If you had said ""the Canadian JTF or "the US Navy SEALS" (as you did), there would have been no confusion.

Edward Yee wrote:I had been referring to Stuart not setting July 4th as Yahweh's death and CaptainChewbacca wondering about that; my attempted joke was borrowed wholesale from here.

No, it was indeed amusing, it just lacked context for me. So okay, the comparison is to July 4th, that other important date in the Revolutionary War. Got it.

DeRogue wrote:

Night_stalker wrote:Who? Sorry, but I have no idea who you are talking about.

JTF, Canadian special forces. Functionally equivalent to The United states Navy SEALS, IIRC. Serve with Americans on Tier 1 operations.

Probably they're doing what they always do. Bieng awesome without anyone noticing. Funny isn't it how their are several countries who have excellent special forces, but aren't nations you normally think of having much in the way of military?

I have to admit it would be funny if Yah-Yah wasn't quite dead, and rises out of the lake... Then finally gets introduced to modern weaponry.

Yeah, with the coup de grâce being performed by a Swiss Guardsman. That would be really ironic!

Negativedark wrote: Probably they're doing what they always do. Bieng awesome without anyone noticing. Funny isn't it how their are several countries who have excellent special forces, but aren't nations you normally think of having much in the way of military?

That's the sign of a good special forces unit: if you noticed their existance, they did it wrong.

Night_stalker wrote:Yeah, with the coup de grâce being performed by a Swiss Guardsman. That would be really ironic!

Or the Pope himself.
Also, is the Pope still Benedict XVI in this?

Nematocyst wrote:

Negativedark wrote: Probably they're doing what they always do. Bieng awesome without anyone noticing. Funny isn't it how their are several countries who have excellent special forces, but aren't nations you normally think of having much in the way of military?

That's the sign of a good special forces unit: if you noticed their existance, they did it wrong.

Alternatively, they did things exactly as planned and you didn't notice the truly awesome thing that flew clear under everyone's radar that was their real target after all