They wore red leather boots, if I'm not mistaken.Quote:
Originally Posted by discovery1
Printable View
They wore red leather boots, if I'm not mistaken.Quote:
Originally Posted by discovery1
Quote:
Originally Posted by hrvojej
Ah. thank you.
i believe their trousers were red.
I think they had a vertical red stripe on their pant legs.Quote:
Originally Posted by hrvojej
My real name is dries. At the time I was still doing greek at school, we were sticking greek extensions to every word. Like -os. So one of my classmates called me drisos, and I liked that name. I now use it everywere at the internet.
Tachikaze is correct - there was a strip along the outside seam of the pants indicating what branch the soldier was in. Yellow for Cav, Blue for Infantry and Red for Artillery. That is where the American military term for Redlegs come from.Quote:
Originally Posted by hrvojej
I started playing LAN games with a group of friends back in '95(?). I didn't really play vid games back then, so of course I sucked. One of the first games they got me playing was Descent, a FPS-type game where you fly around a 3D maze picking up weapons and shooting the other players. One of the group is an assassin at pretty much any video game (waaaay too much time on his hands), and was killing me at will. In frustration, I changed my player name to drone, since that pretty much described what I was in the game. Kept it ever since.
Ah, so I heard it wrong. :oops: Sorry for the misinformation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Redleg
Naw - you were probably listening to someone who watched the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales in that movie the Union guerilla band were called Redlegs because of the Red colored boots that they wore.Quote:
Originally Posted by hrvojej
Bad sources apparently, what can you do... :embarassed:Quote:
Originally Posted by Redleg
15 years ago I was in London with a friend. We went off in search of an Ethiopian restaurant we had found in a directory.
We didn't fint it, and for some reason we ended up at an "all you can eat" pizza buffet. We were very ironic, I guess.
We found the house red to be modestly priced, and gave it more attention than the pizza, which was probably of little merit.
I eventually had to "go", and proudly announced that this would indeed be the largest leak since the Titanic.
My friend then saidwhich is a line from "Wild at heart", only it's said by Bobby Pery about Bobby Peru.Quote:
"Ya'll take a listen, you'll hear the deep sound comin' down from Paul Peru."
My friend later explained that
a) I think I'm very deep, but all that comes out of me is piss
b) He thought I resembled Willem Dafoe (I don't)
The name stuck, and I've been using it as an alias and "evil alter ego" since.
I wanted something in the Romen nominclatura. I come from Germany, Germanicus was too simple though. But I come from the Germanian tribe of the Francs, so Franconicus seemed to be the right choice.
Some seem to think that I am French, however ~D
Well Henry V is one of my great heroes,and I have been watching the play since I was two and whenever I went into France when I was little I would shout: "No King of England if not King of France!", much to my parents annoyance.