
By: Richard Smith
To: Fredric Rice

 RIP Verna Mae Russell 1911-96
 Fredric Rice said to Curtis Johnson about Firearms opening up the W:

 FR> What's that famous phrase?  "We have spotted the Afghan
 FR> rebbles.  Please tell my wife that I love her."

 When you lie torn and bleeding on Afghanistan's plains,
 And the women come out to cut up your remains,
 Lift up your rifle and blow out your brains,
 And go to your God as a soldier.
   -- Rudyard Kipling.

 cj> Look, the skraelings were the only ones to toss Vikings out
 cj> of Viking-occupied territory with the Vikings were on top.
  FR> How did they do that?  Use steel instead of bronze?

 Fanatical use of arrows and clubs.  They outnumbered the
 Vikings as well.  The `skraelings' were Native Americans.


