Ahhhh, the Great Panjandrum is my favourite since I saw a film of it some 30-40 years ago, cartwheeling along the beach, and dying off in a gret belch of smoke and flame. Had to be seen to believe it, how anyone could think of that major piece of fireworks as a weapon is beyond sanity
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"Do you mean the Asiatic hordes driven forward under the lash?
Oh, sorry, those were the Persians described by Herodotus in the 5th Cent BC!"