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Posted by Chancellor_Goth on 10/02/32 11:49
Oh Christ that gun-totin' twat Dr Bob is here and establishing a place
thanks to ppl replying to him. See you in 6 months when he's fucked off.
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Goth
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"In space, no-one can hear you stomp"
"Chris Redmond" <credmond@admmail.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message
news:e51tjd$3v5$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca...
> In article <44747648.9660750@news-server.houston.rr.com>,
> Bob <spam@uce.gov> wrote:
>
>>>>Doyle and Rudyard Kipling were active together in establishing a
>>>>network of firearms marksmanship ranges all over England.
>>>You can, of course, give us some documentation for
>>>this most interesting assertion?
>>"assertion"? It is not an assertion - it is a fact of reality.
>>I read about it in an NRA publication about gun confiscation in
>>Britain. It was published about 10 years ago. There so happens to be a
>>reprint on the web:
>>http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=76
>>"Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle both witnessed the lethal fire
>>that Boer farmer-riflemen rained on British troops in 1899. They
>>returned home to promote civilian marksmanship through the expansion
>>of rifle clubs in England."
>>Does that help remove any doubt you may have had about my credibility?
>
> No, really. Quite apart from the question of whether the
> NRA knows more about British history and the life of Arthur
> Conan Doyle than do the biographers of ACD, there is nothing
> either in the paragraph you quote here, nor in the complete
> article, to suggest that ACD and Kipling worked together on
> anything. (They did, however, play golf together once.)
>
> CAR
> www.sherlockian.net
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