Re: Christopher Plummer
Posted: 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)