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Hi Kung Fools:

I was reading your scars site and I noticed that you had a quote by Admiral Yamamoto, the guy who organized the Pearl Harbor raid. “I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant” You might be interested to know that he never said this. His character only said this in the movie “Tora Tora Tora” released in 1970. My sources are the following http://starbulletin.com/2001/05/25/features/story3.html which is the friday May 25, 2001 edition of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and http://www.usni.org/navalhistory/articles01/NHsuid8.html which is an article Naveal History Magazine August 2001 “Pearl Harbor: Bombed Again” by Lawrence Suid (A review of the movie Pearl Harbor) This quote is immensely popular, a google search revealed that hundreds of people are using it in error. Best wishes.

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Kungfoolss in error? Inconceivable…
He who has assured us so many times of his obvious intellectual and moral superiority? I, for one, cannot imagine any America other than the one in which only Kungfoolss the Immune from Criticism can be trusted to be truthful, rightfully dominant and so much smarter than the backward, lowly, insecure, savage, fearful “stylists” who are all (of course) always so very wrong about everything!
Surely he was only doing it to test us…

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Pwned

“In the prairie fields, the poppies blow
All the crosses, row and row
They are the dead, short days ago
They lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow” - Warcloud

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Mr. Nice Guy

are you sure that shouldn’t be “Mr. Sarcastic Guy”? :slight_smile:

“I do not agree with what you have to say but, I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
-Voltaire

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It’s a minor mistake considering how much it has spread into our culture. I thought Kung Fools would prefer to hear it on this board then from the Krav Maga folks

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Hi Kung Fools:

I was reading your scars site and I noticed that you had a quote by Admiral Yamamoto, the guy who organized the Pearl Harbor raid. “I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant” You might be interested to know that he never said this. His character only said this in the movie “Tora Tora Tora” released in 1970. My sources are the following http://starbulletin.com/2001/05/25/features/story3.html which is the friday May 25, 2001 edition of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and http://www.usni.org/navalhistory/articles01/NHsuid8.html which is an article Naveal History Magazine August 2001 “Pearl Harbor: Bombed Again” by Lawrence Suid (A review of the movie Pearl Harbor) This quote is immensely popular, a google search revealed that hundreds of people are using it in error. Best wishes.

Samuel Browning

Sam, thanks for the correction, the US Navy website link made your case. Well, nobodies perfect least of all me, but if noted author and journalist, Richard Poe, can make the mistake it’s an understandable one. http://www.richardpoe.com/column.cgi?story=46

I’ll just have to find a new one, (looks) hmmm, Sir Winston S. Churchill speech in the House of Commons May 13, 1940 is a good one.

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“Quran (6:17)-- For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced; for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah; and there was peace.”

Heres a good one from the koran.

“In the prairie fields, the poppies blow
All the crosses, row and row
They are the dead, short days ago
They lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow” - Warcloud

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S. Browning,
Mistake? I think not. The man is incapable of such. Even his touching apparent humility in acknowledging your (helpfully intended, I’m sure) correction is surely only part of his master plan to rescue all Americans (except possibly the blacks) from the clutches of damnably foreign “stylists.”
I know I’ll sleep better tonight knowing Kungfoolss is out there somewhere, researching…

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No problem Kung Fools:

And I agree it is an understandable one, everyone is repeating this line. My own most recent historical mistake was briefly believing that Michael Bellesiles’s book “Arming America” was a reliable work. Thankfully I encountered the work of Clayton Cramer. Bellesiles has since lost his Bancroft prize for his conduct which involved lying about his research methods. http://historynewsnetwork.org/articles1691.html

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You people… can’t you see it? Kungfoolss is never wrong! Obviously the real answer here is that all the historians have made a big mistake.

–A poor band player I was, but now I am crocodile king. –

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Osiris-“Heres a good one from the koran.”

Interesting quote. I’ve been thinking of buying a Koran? for myself…just to see what’s going on…

TaeBo Master-I saw someone’s sig on these boards.
“My opinion had changed but I am still correct.”

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Hard work, Patience, Dedication.
(And my two creaky knees…)

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Osiris- Sounds like something Nostradamus would write.

“Do what thou wilt is the whole of the Law”

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I know it sounds strange.

“In the prairie fields, the poppies blow
All the crosses, row and row
They are the dead, short days ago
They lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow” - Warcloud

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Its interesting though!

“Do what thou wilt is the whole of the Law”