What are you currently reading ?

[fsn]

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/04/the-origin-of-humpty-dumpty/

Or "brandy boiled with ale". That one I have not heard before. 

[Fenton]

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/04/the-origin-of-humpty-dumpty/

Or "brandy boiled with ale". That one I have not heard before. 

Interesting find. Makes me wonder if the cannon reference should maybe be referring to a howitzer instead seeing as it short and dumpy compared to normal cannon

[Tawa]

So, I finished "The Silver Spitfire" last night, and this afternoon at work I made a start on "Black Hearts: One platoons descent into madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death".

[Westmarcher]

"Humpty Dumpty"

And everyone else thought "Humpty Dumpty" was boring. Liked the gun theories, FK and Fenton but, for me, I think fsn has cracked it with the brandy boiled with ale - I think I might just try that!

Tawa - I would also recommend Main Battle Tank about the Brits in Basra in the first Gulf War. 

[Roy]

Ian Knight:
The Anatomy of the Zulu Army
from Shaka to Cetshwayo 1818 - 1879

Reading it for research and ideas for a play by mail game I'm playing in, The Glory of Kings by Agema Publications.

[Tawa]

Tawa - I would also recommend Main Battle Tank about the Brits in Basra in the first Gulf War. 

I shall have a looksy for that

[bigjackmac]

I'm continuing my Solomons kick with "Islands of Destiny."

I also just bought a cool solitaire game by Berserker Games called "Marine Fighter Squadron" that I'll be using for an upcoming air-land-sea campaign set there in the Solomons.

V/R,
Jack

[Techno]

Just finished listening to "The dying hours" by Mark Billingham. (Cop/Thriller story.)
Very good.

Cheers - Phil

[howayman]

In the middle of Panzer Battles by Major-General FW von Mellenthin.
Some interesting stuff on the North African Campaign.
Still got Russia and Western Eueope to go.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

The Beano Annual 2015, the other half of my birthday pressie from my old man!
Interesting mix of old (90s) strips and modern.
Only the Bash Street Kids and Little Plum work in the modern, others are too self reverential! All strips are funny, but too often relying on fart jokes...
Dennis really has dropped in standards, and I really don't let me the idea of all the parents being 'modern' especially Minnie and Roger the Dodgers! Bully Whizzes is still the same though!
The artistic quality has also dropped except Calamity James, The Bash Street Kids and Pup Parade.
7/10.

Oh, and I won't mention a couple of notable defections from The Dandy'!

[kipt]

Finished "A Call to Arms" the latest in the Honorverse series.  Space combat at its best.

This one written by David Weber with Timothy Zahn and Thomas Pope.  Seems like a bunch of popular authors can only keep up if they add co-writers.

[Techno]

Finished listening to "Shakespeare's Rebel." (C.C. Humphries)....Very enjoyable.
BTW......How do you spell (I think it was) "Bashrumi"......That's what it sounded like, anyway.
I've only ever heard that used once before, by Percy in Blackadder II.

Now listening to "The Pursuit" by Peter Smalley

Cheers - Phil

[mollinary]

BTW......How do you spell (I think it was) "Bashrumi"......That's what it sounded like, anyway.
I've only ever heard that used once before, by Percy in Blackadder.

Cheers - Phil

Can you give us any context, or am I missing something really obvious?

Mollinary

[Techno]

It seems to along the lines of "Gadzooks !", or "Hey Nonny, Nonny," M.
(I tried an on-line Elizabethan 'dictionary' without success.)

Maybe it's starts with a "P" ?
I'll try and find the episode of Blackadder where I think I've heard it before.... Believe it's the episode where Blackadder tries to host two very different parties at the same time.
Cheers - Phil

[mollinary]

Well, Google-Fu to the rescue!  I am afraid you got close Phil, but no cigar.  A quick look at the script for the Episode "Beer" in Blackadder II rapidly brought me to Percy:  Beshrew me, Blackadder!     

Mollinary