2008 i whise a ferry good healt .and a lot of great models .
richard
My predictions for 2008 are:
2008 will not be the year that the world ends
2008 will be exactly 365 days in length, not one day more and not one day less
2008 will follow 2007 and preceed 2009
2008 will be hard to write on checks because we will all be used to writing 2007
2008 will find that each of us is one year older, I can not guarantee the wiser part
2008 will see more toy soldier collecting
In other words, 2008 will be exactly like the other years, except completely different.
"QUOTE" #2..Isn't 2008 a leap year=366 days???
I don't know about the Chinese year??
O.C.
Blah blah blah WWII...Blah blah blah Afrika Korps...Blah blah blah Nucular Bomb! Blah blah blahdy blah blah blah the Grandmas Bulge. If I hear anymore about WWII, I'm gonna take my 56 pesos per month defence budget and go play in some other sandpit..
So listen up guys, this is whats really going to happen in 2008:
Jan 2008 - I win $20,000,000 Powerball and place order with K&C Hong Kong for all the Naps they have.
Feb 2008 - I visit K&C Hong Kong and complain bitterly that they are holding out on me and demand they sell me the remainder of their Naps. They observe that I am not messing around and acquiese (give in).
Mar 2008 - Following my flash flood visit to head office and my artificial inflating of the global demand for K&C Naps - Andy finaly sees the error of his waysin following blindly the WWII path and self corrects the market by releasing 6 (yes yes hurried but necessary) Austrian Infantry sets.
Apr 2008 - Following on from the soldout Austrian Naps he releases Prussian Infantry Naps (pretty good they are too!)
May 2008 - All Prussians sold out and a month off to source 3 new factories on the mainland just to produce Naps!! (OMG!!!! the success of it all)
June 2008 - Yaaahooo!! K&C finally releases the much requested and sought after Polish Lancers!!
July 2008 - Followed by the Red Dutch Lancers (Oh joyous day)
Aug 2008 - K&C takes a breather and a chance for his factories to source more pewter to make almost soley Naps.
Sept 2008 - Brunswicker 'Deaths Head" Leib infantry Naps released (he could no longer wait for anyone else to produce them..)
Oct 2008 - French Carabiniers!! An early Christmas!!!! Thank you Andy
Nov 2008 - French Guard Artillery - Boootiful - move over Britains!!
Dec 2008 - Naps sold out!!! Whaa..?? How can it be? Oh well maybe enough time to squeeze another tiger out before Christmas Day coswe haven't had one of those in a while.
Jan 2009 - Andy retires a veeeery wealthy and contented man having appointed me to oversee another year of Naps production from K&C Head Office in HongKong.
The End.
Now Robert. Polls as we all know are always rigged. And as for Naps being a support act!! I need not remind you how much the Napoleonic era changed the way we all live even today. It ranged a full 25 years! 25 years I say again!! What did that palfry grubby little affair your lot call wubbleya wubbleya 2 ever provide other than misery, division, and the atomic bomb?
Now the Napoleonic era, thats a whole different kettle of fish. It gave us the unlocking of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics (Napoleons soldiers found the Rosetta Stone), it gave the French democracy, it gave the rest of us a dislike for the French! It made the French into lovers not fighters cos they've never won a war since (thats a good thing cos war is over-rated anyway). It gave us Beef Wellington (and other Pommy culinary delights!) and it gave the grenadier guards the right to wear furry hats to keep them warm in winter while guarding her-in-doors (many of them would have caught cold without those hats). It had a senes of class - quote: "In a battle the main purpose of cavalry is to provide a degree of style and elegance to what might otherwise descend into an unseemly brawl...". I mean, how good is that!!
At the end of the Napoleonic period, everyone agreed that "that was that" and was allowed to dust off and go home (except Napoleon but then at least he was still alive). Since the end of WWII, we all distrust each other, aim big rockets at each other and scrabble in the dust to pay off mortgages for the rest of our lives (not all doom and gloom I must admit). But I dare say I would sorely miss the last days of chivalry if I had been fortunate enough to live in them.
Side act indeed sir!
Ok thats my bit for now.
Kiwi
ah the good old days, before penicillin was invented and all a regimental surgeon need was a trusty sharp blade
