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Koikaze

10/19/02 1:17 PM

#36719 RE: Zeev Hed #36717

For those interested, I've just updated the Zeev's Ideas board (#board-1351). The update is through early this morning, so I've missed a couple of today's jewels. I'll get to them as quickly as I can.

Fred


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marvin1946

10/19/02 4:19 PM

#36736 RE: Zeev Hed #36717

Bet you were trading Koronasor Pengos on the Hungarian bourse.
http://www.pillowrock.com/ronnie/mhungary.htm

And it was Imre Nagy who led the revolution. I was 10 years old and was saddened by US inability to help but scared as hell that helping Hungarians we had encouraged would have led to a nuclear exchange. Many of us spent our school years hiding under desks. Even at age 10, actually probably more so than our teachers and parents, we knew the futility of trying to survive a nuke attack...
http://www.xrefer.com/entry/506250