That's excellent news! Keep going everyone! But I agree with Stevin: quality not quantity. But if you can have both...
Well, I've only been here a month(exactly) but am proud to be part of that 50,000. But to hold a contest for number 100,000? Good intentions, bad idea. It will make every1 more competitive and then the friendly demeanor of the forum will break up. I prefer it the way it is, personally.
Sorry Buff--I have to disagree with you on this one: Reason is below. Nah--I don't think so--were all too intelligent here to play that game.
I'm a member of another forum with more than 1000 people signed up but a week ago we were just 5-6 active. Now it feels like i'm alone there. I almost feel uncomfortable here because it feels like you are some aliens with a brain size of 2 m3 (2 cubic metres) that remember every letter and number you've read about WWII and i feel that i'm way out of my league. All i know sees me as a WWII maniac and i can't do more than i have the capacitate for. But if this forum would close i would be real sad even though i've only written 'bout 20 post by now. I pray to God that this will never happen. [ 14. June 2003, 04:28 PM: Message edited by: Munken ]
Speak for yourself, Evans - I want that Spitfire ! Seriously, Munken - don't go getting an inferiority complex ! We're all here to learn, contribute and discuss, whether you've read one book or one thousand, doesn't matter.....
Indeed, Munken. We are all to learn in here! Some of us (even if had read a lot) have learned some interesting stuff, the opposite to what we believed; like the Russian winter not halting the German advance in 1941, that a German invasion of Britain in autumn 1940 was impossible, etcera. You just have to read, discuss and be open-minded. There are just some people that can't change... Some ones who don't accept that the RAF was bleeding to death in early September 1940...
...and others who stubbornly cling to the curious notion that 'The English Patient ' is a good film....
My problem is that i have hard to remember numbers and dates. I just remember years and very special events like the invasion of Poland 1st september and D-day 6th of June. Sometimes if i'm lucky i remeber the month too. VE day in May. I don't have it easy.
Well, this CAN be closer to the truth than the RAF winning the Battle of Britain in early September...
Over to Friedrich - just thinking of the film makes me feel...errr... just a moment..... BAAAARRRRRRRFFFFFFF!!!
Martin...what Mark Spitfire? I'd settle for a nice ME-109, a Sopwith Camel or The Red Barons Fokker Tri-plane permanently "borrowed" from him before his fateful flight.
I'm not sure how much cash Otto has to spare ( ) but it would have to be a Mk 1 or II ( Battle of Britain ) or a Mk IX ( the best of them all according to 'Johnnie' Johnson - and he should have known......)
