>For Sale: Italian Mauser Rifles, mint condition, never fired, dropped only once on the field of battle.
Sounds as if it was told by the same not-so-content German allies I mentioned previously. I wonder on what these jokes were based. Probably more on the strategies of the Italian government of the time, than on actual cowardice.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
