JThunder, I learned this one originally in French, In which you can use premier (first) and dernier (last).
[Dr. Nick Riviera, post explosion] “Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing? What a language!”[/Dr. Nick Riviera, post explosion]
A simple way to remember things: If “flammable” appears without “non” in front of it, don’t smoke near it.
:smack:
I mean if flammable appears in any form without a non…
Reaching back to the thriird page of the thread for this one, but we don’t want to forget Tim O’Brien, justly renowned as one of the leading lights in modern bluegrass music, both on his own and has a founder of both Hot Rize and Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers.
That would be third, dammit!
::winces at “death 'guays” pun::
Still, I have to pick some nits. I believe you’re referring to the Gran Chaco War (sometimes just the Chaco War) as presented in fascinating detail at the linked site. That war was 1932-35, and the casualties were indeed tremendous as outlined on a morbidly fascinating site:Mid-Range Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century. Scroll down to the Chaco War at number 11.
However, that’s not a patch on Paraguay’s Nineteenth Century what-WERE-they-thinking misaventure known as The War of the Triple Alliance, 1864-1870. That’s as in a triple alliance against Paraguay, in which Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano López managed to start a war against the two strongest South American powers, Argentina and Brazil plus - as an added attraction - Uruguay, which, along with Argentina, sits astride Paraguay’s only access to the sea, the Rio Uruguay which empties into the Rio de la Plata.
By the time this debacle was over, “The war left Paraguay utterly prostrate; its prewar population of approximately 525,000 was reduced to about 221,000 in 1871, of which only about 28,000 were men.” So few men of marrying age were left that it is popularly held (though I couldn’t find a scholarly cite for it) that polygamy was legalized for a short time to restore the population. That’s a serious defeat.
Yet oddly Francisco Solano López is a national hero. Go figure.
Miles O’Brien - 21st-century television journalist. Real.
Miles O’Brien - 24th-century chief engineer for Deep Space Nine. Fictional.
Of course, in the pantheon of British Rock Ians, none holds a higher place than Ian Kilminster, better known to Motorhead fans as Lemmy.
I forgot to add–
Miles O’Brien - Has been blown about by Katrina and Rita.
Miles O’Brien - Has probably never been blown by Keiko, given what we’ve seen of their marriage.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, there’s Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division. I’ve never heard them, but I hear they’re bleak, sad, depressing, late-'70s gothic rock.
By eerie coincidence, he seems to have died by suicide.
The Boys On the Bus: Political journalists.
The Boys in the Band: Gay.
The Boys of Summer: Baseball players. (Also an unrelated song by Don Henley.)
The Boys from Brazil: Hitler clones.