[Shazolene]

Any literary-minded Freeper know what he means by "Hilaire Beloc's couplets' about the Mahdi? Poetry break anyone?

[DuncanWaring]

Search for "Hilaire Belloc" and Mahdi.

You'll find this little ditty:

"Whatever happens
we have got
the Maxim gun
and they have not".

Generally a reference back to Lord Kitchener and the Sudan, I believe.