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Osprey \'Silly Titles Competition\'
#1
And the winner is:

Boobenfloppinschtoppin: The History of SS Brassieres’:
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/content2.php/cid=378

The runners-up are:

Charles Rooney: CALL OF DUTY... Field Latrines in Combat
Gavin Byrne: British Army Handkerchiefs. Vol 1 - 1660 -1815
Sam Huish: Viking Submarine Units of the 5th century AD
Chris Wyatt: Attila the Bun: Scourge of the bread roll AD 375–565


Well, at least two late Roman titles in the top-5! :wink: Even though Chris Wyatt must surely be a fan of Monty Python!

Cut to stock film of fast-moving Huns on horseback.
First Voice Over In the second quarter of the fifth century, the Huns became a byword for merciless savagery. Their Khan was the mighty warrior Attila. With his devastating armies he swept across Central Europe. Cut to American-living-room-type set. Doorbell rings. Attila the Hun enters the door.
Attila Oh darling, I'm home.
Mrs Attila Hello darling. Had a busy day at the office?
Attila Not at all bad. (playing to camera) Another merciless sweep across Central Europe.
Canned laughter.
Mrs Attila I won't say I'm glad to see you, but boy, am I glad to see you. Enormous canned laughter and applause. Enter two kids.
Jenny Hi, daddy.
Robin Hi, daddy.
Attila Hi, Jenny, hi, Robby. (brief canned applause) Hey, I've got a present for you two kids in that bag. (they pull out a severed head) I want you kids to get a-head.
Enormous shriek of canned laughter and applause. Enter one of us blacked up like Rochester, holding a tray of drinks.
Uncle Tom Hear you are, Mr Hun!
Masses of dubbed applause.
Attila Hi, Uncle Tom.
Uncle Tom There's a whole horde of them marauding Visigoths to see y'all.
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
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#2
Quote:And the winner is:

Boobenfloppinschtoppin: The History of SS Brassieres’:

Or: "Everything you wanted to know about military mammary gland containment systems in the Third Reich, but were afraid to ask" :wink:
Andreas Baede
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#3
ummmmmmm mammaries!
"...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."


a.k.a. Paul M.
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#4
When Atilla came home, why didn't Mrs. Atilla greet him with,

"Hi, Hun!" ?
Pecunia non olet
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#5
Quote:Boobenfloppinschtoppin: The History of SS Brassieres’:

:lol: cool...

Valete,
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini

... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...


Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
[Image: PRIMANI_ban2.gif]
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#6
And why did he have to ring his own doorbell? :lol:
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
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#7
Oh man that's funny! Kudos to Osprey and the contestants, I'm very happy to see some good humor and fun!
Andy Volpe
"Build a time machine, it would make this [hobby] a lot easier."
https://www.facebook.com/LegionIIICyr/
Legion III Cyrenaica ~ New England U.S.
Higgins Armory Museum 1931-2013 (worked there 2001-2013)
(Collection moved to Worcester Art Museum)
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