I'm thinking the War of Warts.
jp
2009/4/22 Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
> The two contenders for numero uno have to be:
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> The War in Heaven
> The War of All Against All
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> We've been fighting both of them for a long time.
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> Mark
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> At 03:00 PM 4/22/2009, you wrote:
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>> The War of Jenkins' Ear (a vicious prosodic contre-temps)
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>> 2009/4/22 Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
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>> > OK, taking up my own challenge. Surprisingly, I found myself with a lot
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>> > choose from. In no special order,
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>> > The Opium Wars--my kind of drug war.
>> > The Davidic Philistine War--foreskins, anyone?
>> > The Great Mutiny--most lurid propaganda
>> > The Golden Horde--need I say more?
>> > The Rough Wooing--Henry VIIIth's charm crusade
>> > The Children's Crusade--early birth control
>> > The Bay of Pigs Invasion--gotta love the CIA
>> > The Pilgrimage of Grace--I've always liked that one. Who was Grace?
>> > The Maori Wars--because they didn't kill all of them
>> > The War with the Newts--because it didn't happen
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>> > If I did this again later I'd probably come up with a different batch.
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>> > Assuming that everyone's taste in bloodshed is different, I await other
>> > lists.
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>> > Mark
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>> David Bircumshaw
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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