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It's a real system shock when you find out that his English "sister" is actually his Japanese fiancee. link
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Samurai lose to guns just as easily as they lose to stone arrowheads. Samurai suck! link
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Minnie Driver has a very distinctive laugh. link
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Guns kill gods. link
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Everyone is an asshole in one way or another. link
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EVERYBODY knows how to play "Heart and Soul" on the piano. link
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Asian schoolgirls were kicking the crap out of bad guys even in the '70s. link
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It's totally not creepy to make a bellybutton charm out of the bullet that killed your lover. Not creepy in the slightest. link
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If you get fooled into shooting a TV image of someone, you'll feel like a total retard. link
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A midget with a gun and a bag of peanuts is pretty original. link
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Don't take your eyes off your opponent when you bow to him. link
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Throwing rocks is a worthwhile lifelong skill. link
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True romantics can passionately kiss a princess while holding a mouthful of poison without swallowing it. link
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Disemboweled folks can still shout a wee nasty earful if they try. link
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Mel Gibson hates the English. link
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Some men are longer than others. link
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The Battle of Stirling BRIDGE was evidently misnamed. link
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You need to be good at math to become a pilot. link
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Mormons will trigger the potential end of mankind. link
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You can gain a man's knowledge and secrets by sucking out his brains. link
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It's totally cool for a corporal to sleep with his squad leader. link
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In the future, our parents will force us to go to Harvard against our wishes. link
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Space Arachnids have 4 legs. link
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Dizzy Flores makes for a nice looking girl. Much nicer than she was in the book, where she was a man who died in Johnny's arms. link
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Yes, as a matter of fact, I would like to know more. link
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Football plays work in warfare. link
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The trade-off for us becoming a militaristic fascist state in the future where not all civilians are citizens: we'll all have beautiful hair. link
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Look, it's Don Cheadle. He's here. Deal with it. Let's move on. link
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Ivan Vanko can build things with a box of scraps too. Cave notwithstanding. link
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Losers always whine about their best. link
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The Maxim Machine-gun is super effective against retreating friendly soldiers. link
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It REALLY sucks to be the standard bearer in a modern war. link
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The Mauser K98 and the Russian Mosin-Nagant were upgraded into instantaneous-impact laser guns in the 1940s. link
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It worked for Conan, and it worked for Jaguar Paw; we as a people today need to use more swinging spike traps against people we dislike. link
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People afraid of stitches need to remember that we could be using the jaws of decapitated insects to hold their cuts closed instead. link
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Nobody knows what the hell she wanted him to do to her stockings. link
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"Ibn" means "son of". link
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Vikings can laugh about anything and everything. They're very cheerful in that sense. link
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When learning a new language, "pig-eating son of a whore" should always be one of the first things you learn. link
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Don't walk in front of an archer. link
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Poison is a weapon for girls. link
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If you plan to kill someone just to make a point, it's courteous to pay for his funeral. link
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Don't fall in love with someone else's woman. link
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When given the choice of fighting a dragon or hundreds of mounted warriors with torches, sometimes the dragon is the one you'd rather fight. link
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You can defeat an entire army of beastmen by killing their mother and their general. link
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In Scandinavia, it is socially acceptable to clean your face with another man's backwash. link
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More engineering disputes need to end in sword duels. link
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"Entertain us" has "anus" in it. link
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Mead is an excellent loophole for drinking prohibitions. link
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Only an Arab would bring a dog to war. link
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Vikings understand Latin far better than they do Greek. link
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The Norse are in need of many gods, but they will still pray to all of them for your safe journey. link
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Kings learn to read and write quicker than common folk. link
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If you cannot lift something, simply grow stronger. link
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Give an Arab a sword and he'll make a knife. link
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Cow urine, boiled down, is great for cuts. link
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Scandinavia looks deceptively similar to the Pacific coast of British Columbia. link
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You hunt bears by going into their caves with spears. link
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A person, even a prince, will never live it down if he's famous for killing his own brother. link
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13 is a lucky number for Vikings. link
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Don't get grossed out if a girl puts cow pee on your face, for she will probably sleep with you later. link
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It's far easier to appreciate a Beowulf story if the hero isn't jumping around the mead hall naked. link
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Arabian ambassadors don't need Rosetta Stone software to learn new languages. link
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Rocks in your shoes can inadvertently save lives. link
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Bombed out coffee shops don't have a lot of coffee left over. link
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You sleep easier with a clear conscience. link
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Medics are understandably upset when the people whose bleeding they've just staunched suddenly end up with a bullet in their brains. link
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20 millimeters sounds like nothing, but it's still more than enough to make a person's head disappear. link
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It'd be a pain in the ass to be a left-handed soldier working a right-handed rifle bolt. link
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Sometimes it's not such a horrible idea to just help your aunt with chores around the house. Just saying. link
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It is possible for little children and kamikaze pilots to all fall under the same metaphor. link
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Fireflies are weak! Even little baby girl can squish! link
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To this day, no one really knows who actually bombed the home islands of Japan. That, or they just prefer not to talk about it. link
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Boys that have seen their entire homes firebombed to ash can still remarkably be surprised when they learn their nation has surrendered. link
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Frogs are actually quite tasty when that's all you have. link
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Serenity does not appear in this film. In all meanings of that sentence. link
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Malnutrition: the silent killer. link
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Don't eat from a dead boy's candy tin. link
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Spousal rape is okay, because they'll be smiling in the morning. link
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It really, really sucks to die at the muzzles of your own weapons. link
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The Zulus have very impressive top tenors. link
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"Men of Harlech" makes for a rather impressive battle chant. link
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Modern soldiers use their entrenching tools for everything; back in the 19th century, the bayonet WAS the entrenching tool. link
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Welsh Regiments in 1879 were privy to both Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifles and the time machines they must have used to acquire said-futuristic weapons. link
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Real men take cover behind walls of mealie bags. link
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Even in the 1870s, white people were already afraid of black guys with guns. link
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Standard Zulu Impi equipment: cowhide shield, iklwa spear, 1960s wristwatch. link
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The British soldier is a bloody beast with a bayonet. link
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If someone was given character development, he most likely won the Victoria Cross at some point in life. link
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It feels really good when your enemy surrenders the battle by singing to you. link
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Some would call going to battle in parade dress silly; others shall call it badass. link
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Colonialism used to be a fun adventure. link
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Michael Caine used to be young. link
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Blood pooling in your shirt as you lay dying will take on a pink, watery consistency. link
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Pistols are especially accurate when you're diving into a roll and there are four enemies standing on a hill across from you. link
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People don't always die after they take poison. Forget that, and the future can get complicated. link
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Foot is rock, shadow is paper, firefly-butt is scissors. link
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Blind bicentenarian voodoo ladies are remarkably spry. link
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Modern day aristocrats have no marketable skills. link
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Misunderstand the moral of the story, and folks'll stop wanting to sing and dance with you. link
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