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Mercenary 'Mad Mike' Hoare dies aged 100
BBC ^ | February 3, 3020

Posted on 02/03/2020 5:15:28 PM PST by lowbridge

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1 posted on 02/03/2020 5:15:28 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

People who you’d never believe lived to 100.


2 posted on 02/03/2020 5:17:42 PM PST by Billthedrill
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That was a pretty good movie. Not intended to be an accurate account, it was still pretty good.

When I was a teenager, I knew a guy who was a Belgian paratrooper in the Congo. The natives were murdering Whites but the troops were killing the Communists who were basically the same thing.

I think one of the first groups to use the Uzi. He also liked the little Browning .32 automatic. Also said they used 9mm in their Webley .38s in an emergency. I have no idea if that will actually work.


3 posted on 02/03/2020 5:30:06 PM PST by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: lowbridge
Mike Hoare lived by the philosophy that you get more out of life by living dangerously

Uh huh...


4 posted on 02/03/2020 5:30:55 PM PST by LibWhacker
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Maybe once, but the gun will be toast as well as your shooting hand and maybe your face as well.


5 posted on 02/03/2020 5:31:40 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual and political hemlock)
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To: Billthedrill

Ain’t that the truth.....


6 posted on 02/03/2020 5:42:44 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: LibWhacker

That Stefan Glowacz is such a card.


7 posted on 02/03/2020 5:43:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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To: lowbridge

I read Mad Mike Whore... I thought Bloomberg...
Wishful thinking.
Sorry for the real Mad Mike, but I didn’t know (of) him.


8 posted on 02/03/2020 5:46:29 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: lowbridge

RIP... may God bless.


9 posted on 02/03/2020 5:50:34 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I know. Using chalk. What a wussy! Doesn’t he know one can get more out of life (and a boner) by not using all those artificial crutches??


10 posted on 02/03/2020 5:51:58 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Billthedrill

I wonder if he knew Roland or that son of a bitch Van Owen?


11 posted on 02/03/2020 5:55:56 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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One of the inspirations for Fredrick Forsyth’s “Dogs of War” — great novel, as were many others by Forsyth.


12 posted on 02/03/2020 6:04:08 PM PST by Migraine
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To: Larry Lucido

Well played.

L


13 posted on 02/03/2020 6:05:11 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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14 posted on 02/03/2020 6:16:27 PM PST by Redcitizen ("There's no replacement for shot placement" - Paul Harrell)
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Warren Zevon - Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRWCK9zGynA


15 posted on 02/03/2020 6:22:32 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberalism is the belief everyone else should be in treatment for your disorder.)
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“No old bold warriors”
Ah, he put the lie to that!


16 posted on 02/03/2020 6:22:37 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Unconstitutional "Law" is void from inception.....)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy; Lurker

They can all have a drink now. Maybe at a bar room in Mombassa.


17 posted on 02/03/2020 6:26:52 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: lowbridge

Vive le mort, Vive le guer , Vive le scare mercenaire


18 posted on 02/03/2020 6:29:46 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: lowbridge

RIP.


19 posted on 02/03/2020 6:35:46 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: lowbridge

Trailer for the movie inspired by Mad Mike and his Wild Geese:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJIPToK_gs


20 posted on 02/03/2020 7:19:02 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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