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Thread #112605   Message #2385671
Posted By: GUEST,Landlubber
10-Jul-08 - 10:15 AM
Thread Name: What does 'Go down' mean?
Subject: RE: What does 'Go down' mean?
Where and when did Napoleon call Britain/England, or British/"English" soldiers "The Bonny Bunch of Roses"? Isn't that just what Napoleon II, i.e. his son the King of Rome, is made to say in the Irish song of that name? Or is this a quotation of something the great man himself is actually recorded as having said?

On another tack, it's said that in the Vietnam War, casualties were proportionately higher among African-American G.I.s than among Whites because, when the Sergeant shouted the warning, "Get Down!", all the brothers started to dance.