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dsm wrote:... Gotta tell you that we Aussies love you over there, for the entertainment [of] ... the lack of any purposeful ending to the mason-dixon divide ...

I assume you are talking about the "War of Northern Aggression". You should call it "what it was".

And before you complain about the phrase "what is was", I'll have you know that more important people than me speak like that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aao29xpAdPk

JohnBFisher wrote:

dsm wrote:... Gotta tell you that we Aussies love you over there, for the entertainment [of] ... the lack of any purposeful ending to the mason-dixon divide ...

I assume you are talking about the "War of Northern Aggression". You should call it "what it was".

And before you complain about the phrase "what is was", I'll have you know that more important people than me speak like that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aao29xpAdPk

Good for you John.

I must confess that some of my most entertaining moments in the USA - many times, many places - both sides of the mason-dixon line - were discussing the tactics of the 'what it was' & basis for the 'what it was' - I can even butt in on debates about the impact (pun) of rifle bore vs smooth bore at the most crucial battles such as Gettysburg with Pickett's famous charge & the later subsequent surrender at Appomattox (even if the 'Springfield trapdoor' did come in to play a little later than that battle - The springfield trapdoor could have ended it all even quicker).

An amazingly catastropic event starting at Fort Sumter, that still lives with us today is sooo many ways.

DSM