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Excellent! (insert Mr. Burns voice here).

Jack B)

With the way you guys are able to keep secrets around here I wish that you guys were keeping our secrets in Washington DC.

Actually looking at that picture using all the technology at my disposal it is either the Battle of Cades Cove or the Battle of the Museum of Appalachia.

It's definitely a battle....

B

And its definitely a battle of somewhere

And its definitely a battle of somewhere

That doesn't really help. In the last few years events that for decades were called "incidents", "affairs" or "skirmishes" are now called battles, usually because of local historians or tourism groups trying to "raise awareness" of the event.

Heck, it's gotten to the point now that in Virginia if there were more than three people from each side there and something was shot/farted/projected/uttered from one to the other it was a "battle." :laugh:

Yes and neither does the somewhere

The 'War of Jenkins ear' wasn't actually in poor old Mr. Jenkins ear.

And its definitely a battle of somewhere

That doesn't really help. In the last few years events that for decades were called "incidents", "affairs" or "skirmishes" are now called battles, usually because of local historians or tourism groups trying to "raise awareness" of the event.

Heck, it's gotten to the point now that in Virginia if there were more than three people from each side there and something was shot/farted/projected/uttered from one to the other it was a "battle." :laugh:

Simple solution, if the Rebs won...it's a battle, if the Yanks won...it's a skirmish. B)

LOL, and some of us still call the Falklands War the Falklands Incident. It makes it sound like a minor traffic accident.