Christopher Plummer

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Tim Kelly
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Re: Christopher Plummer

Postby Tim Kelly » Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:58 pm

Tim Kelly wrote:How many times did he have to tell idiots who would come up to him and say,
How could Baron von Trapp be a Captain in the Austrian Navy? Everone knows Austria is landlocked and doesn't have a Navy! Duh!"
to which he would have patiently replied,
"Actually, if you look in the history books, you'll see that Austra DID have a coastline until 1918, only know it's called Croatia".
-he would have been too much of a gentleman to go "Duh!" in return.

Actually, not having a coast is no bar to having a navy; Bolivia has a navy, one gunboat, sailing endlessly back and forth in Lake Titicaca, deterring an invasion from Peru; and both Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have navies, although the only water that seperates them, the Aral Sea, dried up years ago (it's now the Aralkum Desert)
"Aaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh! Quicksand! I'm sinking! I'll go straight to the bottom of.......GLURP!"
(a month later)
"Ugh! Yukkkh! Ptui! I'm out of it! I'm free! Not even quicksand can defeat the power of.....the Eye of Zoltec!"


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