brand names

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Greg Schofield" <g_schofield at dingoblue.net.au>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: brand names
>Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 12:08:45 +0800
>
>What a difference between the US and British military, Anaconda a large 
>non-poisonious snake that wraps itself around its victim suffocates it in 
>its coils to swallow it whole
>
> >British one is named after the jacana or "lily-trotter"
> >- - a little wading bird that minces daintily across floating vegetation 
>in
> >search of insects and molluscs.
>
>Operational names are not chosen at random and nothing could more typify 
>the difference in military tactics.
>
>The US has increasing suffered from a love of brute fire-power, using gaint 
>rock crushers to kill ants.
>
>Britian has a long history of winkling out guerilla fighters

"Winkle"?  That reminds me of the intial encounter, in the 1979 movie Cuba, 
between Sean Connery, a former Royal Marine major sent to advise Batista's 
army in its last days, and Martin Balsam, a thuggish Cuban general.  The 
Balsam character is somewhat dumbfounded by Connery's advice that his 
soldiers should go "harry" Castro's guerillas.

Carl

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