Reply to: The 'Great' War

[SimonMac]

The 100 Years War - the first metric war

I thought that was the elite war?

[evilagent]

The 100 Years War - the first metric war

[EternalOptimist]

I think all wars should have a descriptor

WW1 = The great War
WW2 = The ok War
Napoleonic War = The fair to Middling War
Vietnam = The Doped Out War
Falklands = The War of the meat-packing-glitterati

[RSoles]

As in Great Britain.

Now which post was I replying to?

[MicrosoftBob]

And then, to cap it all, along comes "Spanish" flu to kill another 50 million.

Not forgetting Stalins purges that's about another 20 million at least

[VectraMan]

The war to end war.

qh

So it was the fault of HG Wells:



You learn something new every day.

[Old Greg]

Great = Good

oscarose = cretin

[quackhandle]

The war to end war.

qh

[malvolio]

Where did the "war to end all wars" thing come from? Or is it just something that people said to justify it at the time? Certainly the actions of the allies at the end of WW1 virtually guaranteed another war, so it seems an odd thing to say.

They had just killed 16m people, as opposed to the tens of thousands in previous wars, so I suppose a little propaganda - aka spin - was inevitable

[VectraMan]

They couldn't call it WWI until 1939, and as it was supposed to be the "War to end all wars" the great was coined

Where did the "war to end all wars" thing come from? Or is it just something that people said to justify it at the time? Certainly the actions of the allies at the end of WW1 virtually guaranteed another war, so it seems an odd thing to say.

[SimonMac]

Why is world war 1 being referred to as the 'great' war. No war is 'great'. Violence solves nothing.

They couldn't call it WWI until 1939, and as it was supposed to be the "War to end all wars" the great was coined

[MicrosoftBob]

This feels appropriate

[barrydidit]

Great = Good

As in the great fire of london? Or the great escape? Or the great depression?

[barrydidit]

It;s a homonym, Shirley!

I thought they put bromide in the tea to guard against that kind of thing?

[tractor]

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It;s a homonym, Shirley!