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)
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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 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
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