The very last WWI U.S. veteran turns 109 years old
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[Feb 2,2010 8:44am - SkinSandwich ""]
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/01/las...world.war.one.vet/index.html?hpt=C2
[Feb 2,2010 9:21am - autisticretard ""]
wow thats old!
[Feb 2,2010 9:23am - the_reverend ""]
amazing to think one and only one of them is still around. Sucks that he is knocking on death's door. also sucks that no one cares about WWI. I dont think I've played any WWI games ever.
[Feb 2,2010 9:25am - autisticretard ""]
they should make games for all the wars
[Feb 2,2010 9:29am - arilliusbm ""]
the_reverend said: also sucks that no one cares about WWI. I dont think I've played any WWI games ever.
repost from a few weeks ago. MSD said there's no tanks in wwi :(
I love WWI.
[Feb 2,2010 9:48am - sever ""]
lol wut? tanks originated from WWI. I dont see why there aren't any WWI games, because in certain situations it was far more intense and brutal than any other war in human history.
[Feb 2,2010 9:53am - SkinSandwich ""]
Yup, tanks started in WWI. Here it is. The British invented the tank during the great war. A lot of the tank crews got very sick in the tanks due to carbon monoxide. The tank went a whopping 4 MPH.
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[Feb 2,2010 9:54am - dreadkill ""]
this guy is great. i hope he gets his wish.
[Feb 2,2010 9:54am - arilliusbm ""]
Yea man. Trench warfare + mustard gas.
I love the old dog fights with the biplanes too. Anyone that flew an open cockpit biplane had balls o steel. That shit was intense.
[Feb 2,2010 9:55am - arilliusbm ""]
Leonardo daVinci invented the tank. Fact!
[Feb 2,2010 9:55am - SkinSandwich ""]
arilliusbm said:Yea man. Trench warfare + mustard gas.
I love the old dog fights with the biplanes too. Anyone that flew an open cockpit biplane had balls o steel. That shit was intense.
No parachutes either. If you were shot down, there is no backup plan haha.
[Feb 2,2010 9:59am - arilliusbm ""]
Red Baron. Great mystery surrounds his death. I remember something like how people believe it was a stray bullet from the ground that got him. He was untouchable.. How many planes did he shoot down? 50? 100?
Now we have an epic pizza in his name.
[Feb 2,2010 10:01am - dreadkill ""]
when i was in college, someone broke into our place and stole a bunch of stuff, including our tv and all the red baron pizzas i had in the freezer. i was more pissed about the pizzas than the tv.
[Feb 2,2010 10:04am - arilliusbm ""]
Hahaha Ken
I just looked it up.. Red baron was credited for winning 80 dogfights. Read about his death, epic shctuff.
[Feb 2,2010 10:07am - arilliusbm ""]
Someone needs to make a solid wwi movie. A story about the red baron would be sweet. But oh no, he's German, that's bad. We can't make movies about the enemy.. That's so not PC!
[Feb 2,2010 10:10am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
There were no tanks in WW I.
[Feb 2,2010 10:15am - SkinSandwich ""]
menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:There were no tanks in WW I.
I hope you are not serious.
[Feb 2,2010 10:16am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
Tanks were not invented until the Korean war against Japan.
[Feb 2,2010 10:17am - SkinSandwich ""]
menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:Thanks were not invented until the Korean war against Japan.
Jeez, what was I thinking?
[Feb 2,2010 10:17am - arilliusbm ""]
There were no tanks 250 years ago.
[Feb 2,2010 10:18am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
Exactly. WWI was 250 years ago. Do the fucking math people, Jesus.
[Feb 2,2010 10:21am - SkinSandwich ""]
Hitlers face was actually made of tapioca pudding. Hitler started the very first black metal band back in 1917 after he recovered from a gas attack. Himmler was his filthy slam slut. Fact.
[Feb 2,2010 10:21am - reimroc ""]
Best WWI game:
The Trenches MOD for HL1. Noone plays it anymore but it was popular for 6 months back in 2003.
[Feb 2,2010 10:22am - sever ""]
Are you calling the seven years war WWI? Fair enough... but if that's how we're gonna do things, we're up to world war 5 now.
[Feb 2,2010 10:22am - sever ""]
reimroc said:Best WWI game:
The Trenches MOD for HL1. Noone plays it anymore but it was popular for 6 months back in 2003.
I played it back then, that shit was great and about as realistic as you can get with the HL engine.
[Feb 2,2010 10:28am - arilliusbm ""]
Haha I remember that mod. I preferred wizard wars.
http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/
tell me that ain't one of the best sites on the net
[Feb 2,2010 10:37am - goatcatalyst ""]
French n Indian War was the first time tanks were used. How do you assholes think the French King Bridge got built?
[Feb 2,2010 11:46am - reimroc ""]
arilliusbm said:Haha I remember that mod. I preferred wizard wars.
http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/
tell me that ain't one of the best sites on the net
that site is pretty sweet.
[Feb 2,2010 12:07pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
That site is just more proof. I didn't see a single tank picture on that site.
[Feb 2,2010 12:16pm - Snli ""]
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_year_was_the_first_military_tank_invented
[Feb 2,2010 12:21pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
The concept may have been around before but they weren't actually invented until the late 1970's during the Korean war.
[Feb 2,2010 12:44pm - Yeti ""]
stanks have been around since the dawn of time.
[Feb 2,2010 12:46pm - the_reverend ""]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank
there were tanks in WWI.
[Feb 2,2010 12:46pm - the_reverend ""]
"Tanks were developed and first used in combat by the British during World War I as a means to break the deadlock of trench warfare."
[Feb 2,2010 12:53pm - arilliusbm ""]
Tanks were invented by DaVinci. Jesus Christ.
[Feb 2,2010 12:54pm - Sacreligion ""]
Yeti said:skanks have been around since the dawn of time.
[Feb 2,2010 12:58pm - Sacreligion ""]
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Yo dawg I heard you like skanks so we put a skank in yo skank so you can watch a skank while she skanks.
[Feb 2,2010 1:07pm - Yeti ""]
arilliusbm said:Tanks were invented by Jesus Christ.
[Feb 2,2010 1:10pm - SkinSandwich ""]
Sacreligion said:[img]
Yo dawg I heard you like skanks so we put a skank in yo skank so you can watch a skank while she skanks.
Haha, I forgot about the moshy retarded chick with no neck. Good times!
[Feb 2,2010 1:14pm - arilliusbm ""]
I'm pretty sure the UFC invented the tank.
[Feb 2,2010 1:38pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
the_reverend said:"Tanks were developed and first used in combat by the British during World War I as a means to break the deadlock of trench warfare."
That's all a lie. If there were tanks in WWI there would be real pictures of them. Tanks weren't around then. Why is this concept so hard to grasp?
[Feb 2,2010 1:42pm - xmikex ""]
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[Feb 2,2010 1:43pm - goatcatalyst ""]
that's not a tank, you turkey. that's how they bore the glory hole into the mountain for the soldiers
[Feb 2,2010 1:44pm - reimroc ""]
lol mikey you need to go back to 4th grade history.
[Feb 2,2010 1:52pm - xmikex ""]
menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:
the_reverend said:"Tanks were developed and first used in combat by the British during World War I as a means to break the deadlock of trench warfare."
That's all a lie. If there were tanks in WWI there would be real pictures of them. Tanks weren't around then. Why is this concept so hard to grasp?
Ey fuck u budday!
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[Feb 2,2010 1:57pm - dertoxia ""]
a good WWI movie is "The Trench". Takes place entirely inside a trench. You dont really even see the sky for the entire movie. Except for the last 30 seconds or so where they charge over the top of the trench and then all die. oh shit i gave away the ending.
The Lost Battalion is pretty good too.
[Feb 2,2010 1:59pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
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I said "REAL" pictures. This is obviously a very badly done photoshop.
[Feb 2,2010 2:00pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
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[Feb 2,2010 2:03pm - ark ""]
hahahaha, well well old chap
[Feb 2,2010 2:44pm - Alx at work ""]
Not to mention the pixels. Obvious shoop.
[Feb 2,2010 3:06pm - dertoxia ""]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tanks_of_WWI.ogg
[Feb 2,2010 3:20pm - Yeti ""]
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[Feb 2,2010 3:23pm - arilliusbm ""]
The tank in Indiana jones and the last crusade is a ww I tank. Hatay loaned it to ze nazis, who drove it off ze cliff with a ragdoll Nazi on top.
[Feb 2,2010 3:27pm - arilliusbm ""]
Of course that was after that shitty ambush by the brotherhood of the cruciform sword.
[Feb 2,2010 3:28pm - Yeti ""]
now who are all these people?
who cares! as long as they're keeping Donovan busy.
[Feb 2,2010 3:32pm - arilliusbm ""]
I should have mailed it to the MARX BROTHERSH
[Feb 2,2010 3:33pm - Yeti ""]
TAKE IT EASHY???!!!!
[Feb 2,2010 3:39pm - arilliusbm ""]
I thought I losht ya boiy??
[Feb 2,2010 3:59pm - reimroc ""]
lol
[Feb 2,2010 7:08pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
You people will have to do better than pictures of lego tanks and blurry photoshops. There were no tanks in WWI. Deal with it.
[Feb 2,2010 7:17pm - rotivore ""]
don't be surprised if the goverment ships him off to fight the war in Afghanistan....
[Feb 2,2010 7:50pm - arilliusbm ""]
rotivore said:don't be surprised if the goverment ships him off to fight the war in Afghanistan....
hahahha
[Feb 2,2010 8:20pm - dertoxia ""]
bennyhillifier
[Feb 2,2010 8:38pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
rotivore said:don't be surprised if the goverment ships him off to fight the war in Afghanistan....
I'm too fat to be in a war.
But seriously, that video is fake. You can CLEEEEEEARLY tell it's fake. If you look close you can see the guys pushing the cardboard cutouts.
They fucked up the video so bad anyways though. Look at what they're wearing. Those uniforms are from the 1910's. WWI took place in the early 1800's.
[Feb 2,2010 8:47pm - arilliusbm ""]
I thought he said he wouldn't be surprised if the govt shipped wwi tanks over to Afghanistan. I wouldn't put it past them
[Feb 2,2010 10:38pm - the_reverend ""]
horse drawn tanks.
[Feb 2,2010 10:49pm - the_reverend ""]
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[Feb 3,2010 2:50am - TheRidersofDoom ""]
tanks were used to drive over barbed wire.
also, the Irish invented submarines...like 300 years ago
[Feb 3,2010 3:33am - BobNOMAAMRooney nli ""]
Everyone knows the allies used the RX-78 Gundam to win World War I by having the mobile suit step on the Kaiser's head.
Tanks didn't exist until like 2002 or something.
[Feb 3,2010 8:38am - the_reverend ""]
TheRidersofDoom said:tanks were used to drive over barbed wire.
also, the Irish invented submarines...like 300 years ago
do you hate google or just love being wrong?
Credit for the invention of the submarine is given to William Bourne, a British mathematician and ex-Royal Navy gunner who published a design in 1578. The first navigable submarine for which reliable construction data exists was built from this design in 1620 by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, a Dutch inventor in the employ of James I. Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized the submarine, and it is possible (probable) that others could have thought of the idea of an undersea vehicle, but the technology to put a working model in the water and safely and effectively operate it didn't come along for over a century following Leonardo.
[Feb 3,2010 8:42am - the_reverend ""]
and does it count if tanks were invented in the 1980's, but used in the 1910's for WWI due to time travel invented the Terry Gilliam movie "Time Bandits"?
[Feb 3,2010 9:40am - xmikex ""]
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[Feb 3,2010 11:15am - TheRidersofDoom ""]
the_reverend said:
TheRidersofDoom said:tanks were used to drive over barbed wire.
also, the Irish invented submarines...like 300 years ago
do you hate google or just love being wrong?
Credit for the invention of the submarine is given to William Bourne, a British mathematician and ex-Royal Navy gunner who published a design in 1578. The first navigable submarine for which reliable construction data exists was built from this design in 1620 by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, a Dutch inventor in the employ of James I. Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized the submarine, and it is possible (probable) that others could have thought of the idea of an undersea vehicle, but the technology to put a working model in the water and safely and effectively operate it didn't come along for over a century following Leonardo.
Nigga I meant used in war, those hippies just thought it was cool to have a wooden box underwater, this dude wanted the IRA to use them to blow up British navy ships...instead they decided to bomb post offices...
[Feb 3,2010 11:17am - TheRidersofDoom ""]
olland continued to improve his designs and worked on several experimental boats, prior to his successful efforts with a privately built type, launched on 17 May, 1897. This was the first submarine having power to run submerged for any considerable distance, and the first to combine electric motors for submerged travel and gasoline engines for use on the surface. She was purchased by the U.S. Navy (on 11 April, 1900) after rigorous tests and was commissioned on 12 October, 1900 as USS Holland. Six more of her type were ordered and built at the Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The company that emerged from under these developments was called The Electric Boat Company, founded on 7 February, 1899. Isaac Leopold Rice became the company's first President with Elihu B. Frost acting as vice president and chief financial officer.
[Feb 3,2010 11:20am - TheRidersofDoom ""]
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_19/holland.htm
[Feb 3,2010 11:22am - ouchdrummer ""]
TheRidersofDoom said:olland continued to improve his designs and worked on several experimental boats, prior to his successful efforts with a privately built type, launched on 17 May, 1897. This was the first submarine having power to run submerged for any considerable distance, and the first to combine electric motors for submerged travel and gasoline engines for use on the surface. She was purchased by the U.S. Navy (on 11 April, 1900) after rigorous tests and was commissioned on 12 October, 1900 as USS Holland. Six more of her type were ordered and built at the Crescent Shipyard in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The company that emerged from under these developments was called The Electric Boat Company, founded on 7 February, 1899. Isaac Leopold Rice became the company's first President with Elihu B. Frost acting as vice president and chief financial officer.
Ya know, you could at least throw in a "nigga" or a "mothafucka" so it isn't so.... i dunno.... exactly the same as what you cut and pasted.
[Feb 3,2010 11:38am - the_reverend ""]
TheRidersofDoom said:
the_reverend said:
TheRidersofDoom said:tanks were used to drive over barbed wire.
also, the Irish invented submarines...like 300 years ago
do you hate google or just love being wrong?
Credit for the invention of the submarine is given to William Bourne, a British mathematician and ex-Royal Navy gunner who published a design in 1578. The first navigable submarine for which reliable construction data exists was built from this design in 1620 by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, a Dutch inventor in the employ of James I. Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized the submarine, and it is possible (probable) that others could have thought of the idea of an undersea vehicle, but the technology to put a working model in the water and safely and effectively operate it didn't come along for over a century following Leonardo.
Nigga I meant used in war, those hippies just thought it was cool to have a wooden box underwater, this dude wanted the IRA to use them to blow up British navy ships...instead they decided to bomb post offices...So.. the IRA that was founded in 1913 wanted to build subs 300 years ago?
[Feb 3,2010 11:39am - dertoxia ""]
olland continued to improve his designs and worked on several experimental boats, prior to his successful efforts with a privately built type, launched on 17 May, 1897. This was the first submarine having power to run submerged for any considerable distance, and the first to combine electric motors for submerged travel and gasoline engines for use on the surface. She was purchased by the U.S. Navy (on 11 April, 1900) after rigorous tests and was commissioned on 12 October, 1900 as USS Holland. Six more of her type were ordered and built at the Crescent Shipyard in west Philadelphia born and raised On the playground was where i spent most of my days Chillin out maxin relaxin all cool And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school When a couple of guys Who were up to no good Startin makin trouble in my neighborhood I got in one lil fight and my mom got scared She said your movin with your auntie and uncle in bel Air.
[Feb 3,2010 11:40am - the_reverend ""]
and I guess the 1-2 subs in the civil war didn't count.
[Feb 3,2010 11:44am - ouchdrummer ""]
the_reverend said:and I guess the 1-2 subs in the civil war didn't count.
awesome.. i just saw a special on GBH about these subs, and the crews that powered them. There were 8 guys all sitting in a little friekin ship (real little) all manually rotating a propeller. Looked suicidal.
[Feb 3,2010 12:07pm - Conservationist ""]
the_reverend said:and I guess the 1-2 subs in the civil war didn't count.
Not strategically...
[Feb 3,2010 1:38pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
BobNOMAAMRooney%20nli said:Everyone knows the allies used the RX-78 Gundam to win World War I by having the mobile suit step on the Kaiser's head.
Tanks didn't exist until like 2002 or something.
Thank you!
I'm glad somebody is on the same page as me. Tanks weren't invented until after world war II
[Feb 4,2010 1:45am - BobNOMAAMRooney nli ""]
menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:
BobNOMAAMRooney%20nli said:Everyone knows the allies used the RX-78 Gundam to win World War I by having the mobile suit step on the Kaiser's head.
Tanks didn't exist until like 2002 or something.
Thank you!
I'm glad somebody is on the same page as me. Tanks weren't invented until after world war II
And as we all know, World War II settled the lengthy standoff between the Grand Duchy of Crunchy Tacos and the Holy Soft Taco Empire.
The superweapon that turned the tide of the entire war? Scott Baio.
[Feb 4,2010 6:56am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
I just verified this on Wikipedia. I believe it is true. Also, I didn't realize it before. But Scott Baio invented the tank, not some British homosexual.
[Feb 4,2010 7:50am - Yeti ""]
fools.
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[Feb 4,2010 8:31am - TheRidersofDoom ""]
I heard it was this guy who invented tanks after the time he got russian leg sweeped.
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[Feb 4,2010 11:03am - ouchdrummer ""]
menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:Scott Baio invented the tank, not some British homosexual.
FACT BOMB
[Feb 4,2010 11:48am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
I'm like a big sack of facts full of factual facts.
[Feb 4,2010 12:01pm - SkinSandwich ""]
menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:I'm like a big sack of facts full of factual facts.
And thats the fact Jack!
[Feb 4,2010 12:48pm - ouchdrummer ""]
more like sack of farts... OH BURN
[Feb 4,2010 1:01pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
:(
[Feb 4,2010 1:01pm - ouchdrummer ""]
menstrual_sweatpants_disco said::(
EAT MY FARTS!
[Feb 4,2010 1:03pm - Yeti ""]
or a big sack of FATS HYUCK HYUCK
[Feb 4,2010 1:07pm - xmikex ""]
This is an awesome thread.
And before anyone fucks it up, the submarine sandwich predates the submarine.
[Feb 4,2010 1:09pm - goatcatalyst ""]
It's called a hoagie, asshole.
[Feb 4,2010 1:11pm - Yeti ""]
oh yeah Ryan you called my phone the other night, like Saturday i think, and left like a 3 minute message of distorted sounds and speech. i figured you were putting a hex on me or something.
[Feb 4,2010 1:13pm - goatcatalyst ""]
Ahahaha. Pocket calls. I make em. Sorry, hombre. Usually, my drummer gets em - in Germany. My phone bills suck when I forget to lock my phone.
[Feb 4,2010 1:15pm - goatcatalyst ""]
I should have played it off as an impromptu noise set. Because limited pressings with fancy packaging are SO passe.
[Feb 4,2010 1:26pm - the_reverend ""]
I don't see how any of you can be so blind to the truth. IT'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACES.
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[Feb 4,2010 1:29pm - SkinSandwich ""]
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[Feb 4,2010 1:36pm - xmikex ""]
goatcatalyst said:It's called a hoagie, asshole.
u boat.
[Feb 4,2010 1:55pm - the_reverend ""]
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[Feb 4,2010 3:32pm - SkinSandwich ""]
Vaginal Holocaust.