There's also The Battle of the Sexes.
To tie this back to the thread I seem to have disrupted, some of
these wars have produced a lot of poet-casualties.
At 03:21 PM 4/22/2009, you wrote:
>I'm thinking the War of Warts.
>jp
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>2009/4/22 Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > The two contenders for numero uno have to be:
> >
> > The War in Heaven
> > The War of All Against All
> >
> > We've been fighting both of them for a long time.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > At 03:00 PM 4/22/2009, you wrote:
> >
> >> The War of Jenkins' Ear (a vicious prosodic contre-temps)
> >>
> >>
> >> 2009/4/22 Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
> >>
> >> > OK, taking up my own challenge. Surprisingly, I found myself with a lot
> >> to
> >> > choose from. In no special order,
> >> >
> >> > 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
> >> >
> >> > If I did this again later I'd probably come up with a different batch.
> >> >
> >> > Assuming that everyone's taste in bloodshed is different, I await other
> >> > lists.
> >> >
> >> > Mark
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> 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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