07-04-2017, 06:37 AM
(07-04-2017, 03:37 AM)Optimistic Paranoid Wrote: Are we allowed to nominate outsiders for honorary membership in this club?
If so, I want to nominate Lt. Colonel John Malcolm "Mad Jack" Churchill, DSO, MC.
A WW2 British Commando who went into battle playing the bagpipes and carrying a longbow and Scottish Claymore sword. He's the only man known to have killed an enemy soldier with a bow and arrow during the war.
At various times, he was an occasional movie actor, competetive international archer, and won second place at a military piping competition. After the war, he took up surfing in Australia, and when he returned to England, he became the first man to ride the river Severn's five foot tidal bore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
No arguement there.
Trouble rather a tiger in his lair than a sage at his books. To you kingdoms and armies are mighty and enduring, to him they are toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger. G Dickson.