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bilby commented on the word ash wednesday
"We watch a destroyer sending morse by lamp.
'Do you know,' I said, 'Gunner Liddel thinks that Ash Wednesday is a Fourth Division football team?'
We laugh.
'Stop that noise, do you want the bloody German submarines to hear us?' says the voice of Edgington.
'He was laughing in German,' I explained."
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.'
April 18, 2009