 Editor in Chief Bill   | 03 Dec 2016 6:31 p.m. PST |
What is your favorite quote from Bernard Law Montgomery? |
| Blutarski | 03 Dec 2016 7:46 p.m. PST |
That hissing sound you are hearing is the burning fuze ….. 6, 5, 4, 3 B |
| Winston Smith | 03 Dec 2016 8:13 p.m. PST |
"Oh stop that Georgie." Seriously, I am not aware of all that many memorable quotes beyond not invading China. |
| ScoutJock | 03 Dec 2016 8:41 p.m. PST |
"You don't train until you get it right, you train until you can't get it wrong." Oh wait, that was Nick Saban… Never mind! |
 miniMo  | 03 Dec 2016 8:55 p.m. PST |
"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?" |
| Buffs man | 03 Dec 2016 9:21 p.m. PST |
I love this site , but really another Monty bashing post ? . I am a Scot and not very fond of this pompous ass , but come on is this necessary ? |
| Dan 055 | 03 Dec 2016 9:28 p.m. PST |
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| Weasel | 03 Dec 2016 11:20 p.m. PST |
"Suck it Nazis" – After the Bulge. Maybe he phrased it differently. |
| David Manley | 03 Dec 2016 11:42 p.m. PST |
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| John Treadaway | 04 Dec 2016 3:09 a.m. PST |
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| Gunfreak | 04 Dec 2016 4:23 a.m. PST |
A cannot doogh it captn, ai don't haveh the power. |
| Fred Cartwright | 04 Dec 2016 5:11 a.m. PST |
My favourite comes from the phoney war period when Monty wrote to the War Office suggesting that facilities should be set up so that the men could have "horizontal recreation" as he put it. ;-) |
| GonerGonerGoner | 04 Dec 2016 5:49 a.m. PST |
Time to fill the dawghouse. |
| JSchutt | 04 Dec 2016 6:02 a.m. PST |
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| John Treadaway | 04 Dec 2016 7:36 a.m. PST |
Nice one, gunfreak!  The more you extend the patton the easier it is to stop up the drains…. John T |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 04 Dec 2016 8:02 a.m. PST |
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. |
| JMcCarroll | 04 Dec 2016 8:17 a.m. PST |
"What's one more bridge" Ok I think he never said that. |
| Starfury Rider | 04 Dec 2016 9:43 a.m. PST |
I think it's a paraphrase, but I'd go with; "Without infantry you can do nothing, absolutely nothing." Still holds as true today as it did then, and all the centuries before. Gary |
| bledin | 04 Dec 2016 2:25 p.m. PST |
My father used to have this on a brass plaque in his bar: "A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors."
- Field Marshal Montgomery Guess which branch my father served in! Cheers, Ben |
| Norman D Landings | 04 Dec 2016 4:25 p.m. PST |
"Dear old world" she murmured, "you are very lovely, and I'm glad to be alive in you". (Lucy Maud Montgomery) |
| 4th Cuirassier | 04 Dec 2016 5:14 p.m. PST |
"Have you got 100% binge?" "You're not exactly on the cwest of a wave, Wamsden." "Wommel is on the wun!" |
| zoneofcontrol | 04 Dec 2016 6:12 p.m. PST |
Samantha: I'm not a bad witch! I'm a good witch!
Darrin Stephens: Her mother's a bad witch. Samantha = Elizabeth Montgomery (much better looking!) |
| wargamer6 | 05 Dec 2016 12:15 p.m. PST |
My memorable Monty story was when he had his senior officer of engineers come to his Tac Headquarters to explain why his troops weren't getting supplied . The officer told him that he had no idea that it rained so much in Italy and his bridges were getting continually washed away by the deluge . Monty looked at the officer with some distain then reached into his desk and pulled out a copy of Baedekers' Italy , thumbing through the book he opened it up at the relevant section and bid the officer to read it out . " In November the weather in Italy is very wet and rainfall of up to 12 inches can be experienced" . End of interview . |
| Tgunner | 05 Dec 2016 12:26 p.m. PST |
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| Mike Target | 06 Dec 2016 8:42 a.m. PST |
I was going to go with "fox killed in open", but then realised that was o'connor, though it would have perhaps been more apt for Monty. |
 piper909 | 06 Dec 2016 10:47 a.m. PST |
"We have to stop meeting like this, Georgie, the men are beginning to talk." |
| 4th Cuirassier | 06 Dec 2016 11:03 a.m. PST |
"Fox killed in open" was Dorman-Smith's formulation, was it not? |
