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Sadly Richardson's ardent pacifism was Poisson up a wall :-(

As Ronnie Raygun said: https://youtu.be/EPA9B3YZtlc?t=199

Poisson on the moon, even. Still, could be worse: even Poisson into the wind isn't as bad as being immortalised with the caption "I'm Nailed Right In".

https://blogs.ethz.ch/kowalski/2016/02/14/is-mathoverflow-in...

>fourches caudines, Signori Quids

Poisson and peace-ing, both!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caudine_Forks

> Its designation as a battle is a mere historical formality: there was no fighting and there were no casualties

If LFR were alive today (assuming* the underlying mechanism of war has not changed) perhaps he would take his argument online, in the hopes that people might be able to play with the data in his patiently gathered .xls files and decide for themselves?

Unfortunately, nothing tends to squick the Spiessbürger/petits bougies so quickly as sheets and peace.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTBx-hHf4BE

* a justified assumption, I'd say: the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's certainly the way to bet.

EDIT: even BWW (or at least his author?) was once aware of the origin of the infamous yoke: https://blogs.ethz.ch/kowalski/jeeves-and-the-phd/#:~:text=t...

pedantry: of course he can't recall, if he's querying for "this Roman general", as they were "these": Titus Veturius Calvinus ac Spurius Postumius Albinus Caudinus

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