>>>>>>>> And The Boss will be there for free. Mad Town is going to be rocking.
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>>>>>>>That reminds me of the only time I went to see "The Boss, Argentina Edition"... Lets just say it did not end well...
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>>>>>>Massera, Videla and Agosti? Yeah, that would certainly make the sound of "Boss" unappealing.
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>>>>>I was too young for that Triad :)
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>>>>>brezhnev took afghanistan
>>>>>begin took beirut
>>>>>galtieri took the union jack
>>>>>and maggie over lunch one day
>>>>>took a cruiser with all hands
>>>>>apparently to make him give it back
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>>>>Yeah, Galtieri's assumption Mrs Thatcher had forgotten the words to Rule Brittania was a bit of a miscalculation <g> . But it's not like she had not made her general approach pretty clear. I was in DC in '80 in a bar with a Brit friend, who may have not been exactly what his embassy cover said he was, when the Iranians who were holding the Iranian Embassy in London shot the hostage. I remember the expression on his face as he just shook his head and said "Ah, Maggie will send the hard men now." ( and of course the SAS came through the windows very shortly afterward )
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>>>Borges described the Falklands War as two bald men fighting over a comb ;-)
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>>Oil ?
>
>I didn't know there was any oil involved. My understanding has always been that it was about sovereignty over these godforsaken islands near Argentina.

At the time there was no practical oil exploration going on round the Falklands. In fact the UK government was considering slow moves to passing the islands back to Argentina. The Argentinian invasion (done for domestic reasons in Argentina) put an end to that and Thatcher was happy to respond (also partly for domestic reasons)