Best Powerpoint Evar: Army Captain's "How to Win in Anbar"
This is just brilliant, a powerpoint presentation using stick figures to explain what's going on in Al Anbar province. Unfortunately, the author, Capt. Travis Patriquin, died in an IED attack. But his powerpoint lives on!
This is the sort of thing our leaders should be reading, not some stuffy study group report.
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Fear not, it's in PDF format ...
Re: Best Powerpoint Evar: Army Captain's "How to Win in Anbar"
Best explanation evar
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Re: Best Powerpoint Evar: Army Captain's "How to Win in Anbar"
This is truely the best powerpoint ever.
(Note - do you know where use of the word 'evar' came from?)
Crazed Rabbit
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
Re: Best Powerpoint Evar: Army Captain's "How to Win in Anbar"
I'm far from internet-culture literate, but one theory (!!! I'm absolutely not sure) is appropriately geeky:Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
Neon Genesis Evangelion, a.k.a. Evangelion, a.k.a. Eva, is an infamous anime as equally despised as it is worshipped, and is well known throughout sections of the internet where the geeks reign, which is almost everywhere (except the porn) anyway.
That's what I use it for anyway.
Though I suspect it's just another 4chan relic, moar!
As of the topic: I believe he should be posthumously made general...
Last edited by AntiochusIII; 12-16-2006 at 01:25.
Re: Best Powerpoint Evar: Army Captain's "How to Win in Anbar"
That really was a great powerpoint presentation!
"Topic is tired and needs a nap." - Tosa Inu
Re: Best Powerpoint Evar: Army Captain's "How to Win in Anbar"
Yeah, geeks and porn, that's crazy. No way would that ever happen!throughout sections of the internet where the geeks reign, which is almost everywhere (except the porn) anyway.
I'm inclined to think that evar was a common typo that caught on. A bit like 'teh'.
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Re: Best Powerpoint Evar: Army Captain's "How to Win in Anbar"
I think 'a' and 'e' buttons are a little too far apart, though; 'teh' is just 'the' quickly and sloppily typed in the wrong order, while 'evar' requires one to press an extra 'a' instead of the 'e'.
Then again, I am analyzing keyboard patterns of a bunch of idiots who couldn't even type basic English, which is kind of idiotic in and of itself.
Your explanation is probably right.
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The Simpsons I think.
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