Re: is this board alive?

eddie wrote:

> On Tue, 10 May 2005 20:00:38 -0500, Steve McGarrett scratched out the
> following:
> . . .
>>Because, as my great-grandaddy used to say about The War Between The
>>States, the wrong side won?  ]8-O
> 
> Which side finally won, East or West? I forget :)

#_(~%#& kids! Don't know any history and think everything should be done 
in a web browser! :-)

The answer: Depends on who you read.

Foote, the old historian:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394749138

McPherson, the revisionist historian:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/019516895X

Turtledove, the alternate historian:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345406141
1862
"Hey, Lieutenant, you dropped these here cigars."

Turtledove, the just plain weird:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345384687
1864
General Lee: "What do you call that fancy carbine, Mr. Rhoodie?"
Rhoodie: "An AK-47, sir."

Of course, young-uns intimidated by books can just rent the DVDs.

Burns, the award-winning filmmaker:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002KPI2S

Aloha,
McGarrett
"LART 'em, Danno!"