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    From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 13 19:15:47 2025
    During the island hopping tactic against Japan of the US military
    during WWII, soldiers were transported from ships to the island
    shores. During the subsequent fierce battles many men would die.

    According to rumor, before any island invasion, the naval personnel
    of the ships would hold gambling bets, similar to horse races, on
    which men would die and which men would live.

    I am unable to find any online information attesting to the
    veracity of this gambling.

    Can you?

    For once, shut your fat, incompetent mouths and do a search
    for the above.

    Those who provide functional and good links will be handsomely
    rewarded.



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  • From chrisv@21:1/5 to Farley Flud on Fri Jun 13 16:54:55 2025
    Farley Flud wrote:

    During the island hopping tactic against Japan of the US military
    during WWII, soldiers were transported from ships to the island
    shores. During the subsequent fierce battles many men would die.

    If only we had Linux, at the time, it wouldn't have been so difficult!

    According to rumor, before any island invasion, the naval personnel
    of the ships would hold gambling bets, similar to horse races, on
    which men would die and which men would live.

    I highly doubt that.

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  • From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to chrisv on Sun Jun 15 13:29:16 2025
    On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:54:55 -0500, chrisv wrote:


    According to rumor, before any island invasion, the naval personnel
    of the ships would hold gambling bets, similar to horse races, on
    which men would die and which men would live.

    I highly doubt that.


    No. Supposedly it was true although not widely publicized due
    to its gruesome and odious nature.

    Men will be men and since the island hopping was quite routine,
    i.e. offload marines and then bring back the dead, the sailors
    on board the vessels could easily develop this macabre pastime.

    I encountered a reference in a book some time ago and I was
    wondering if other references could be found on the 'net, the
    uncensored information superhighway.

    Cockfights and dog fighting still exist within highly civilized
    societies so why not this gambling on human fate?

    If you should, for example, suffer a heart attack at home or work,
    it is very possible that the ambulance paramedics that would transport
    you to the hospital could have a secret bet on whether you live
    or die.

    Human beings, by nature, are cruel and barbaric.





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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to Farley Flud on Mon Jun 16 04:40:55 2025
    On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:15:47 +0000, Farley Flud <[email protected]> wrote in <pan$309b0$3717fe91$90fa4050$[email protected]>:

    I am unable to find any online information attesting to the veracity of
    this gambling.

    Can you?

    Information attesting to the veracity, yes.

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  • From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to vallor on Mon Jun 16 11:57:57 2025
    On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 04:40:55 +0000, vallor wrote:

    On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:15:47 +0000, Farley Flud <[email protected]> wrote in <pan$309b0$3717fe91$90fa4050$[email protected]>:

    I am unable to find any online information attesting to the veracity of
    this gambling.

    Can you?

    Information attesting to the veracity, yes.


    Are you going to share the links?

    Or are you just another horder for the sake of vanity?





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  • From chrisv@21:1/5 to Farley Flud on Mon Jun 16 17:05:01 2025
    Farley Flud wrote:

    According to rumor, before any island invasion, the naval personnel
    of the ships would hold gambling bets, similar to horse races, on
    which men would die and which men would live.

    I highly doubt that.

    No. Supposedly it was true although not widely publicized due
    to its gruesome and odious nature.

    Men will be men and since the island hopping was quite routine,
    i.e. offload marines and then bring back the dead, the sailors
    on board the vessels could easily develop this macabre pastime.

    Yeah I suppose if they were people that weren't part of their team.

    I encountered a reference in a book some time ago and I was
    wondering if other references could be found on the 'net, the
    uncensored information superhighway.

    Cockfights and dog fighting still exist within highly civilized
    societies so why not this gambling on human fate?

    If you should, for example, suffer a heart attack at home or work,
    it is very possible that the ambulance paramedics that would transport
    you to the hospital could have a secret bet on whether you live
    or die.

    Human beings, by nature, are cruel and barbaric.

    Some of them, anyway. Also, being in the middle of a war will
    desensitize people.

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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to Farley Flud on Mon Jun 16 23:03:43 2025
    On Jun 13, 2025 at 3:15:47 PM EDT, "Farley Flud" <[email protected]> wrote:

    I am unable to find any online information attesting to the
    veracity of this gambling.

    Can you?

    Oh look. ANOTHER "challenge" from Feeb that is in reality just ANOTHER case where he has no idea WTF he is doing. Did you ever get Pan compiled for Windows? Learn how to code ANYTHING besides trivial math problems that have already been solved 1,000 times?

    What a loser.

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