Talk:Waterloo in popular culture

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Would someone please sort this lot into section "Memorials", "Novles", "Music" etc. --Philip Baird Shearer 10:26, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Apologies if this is bad form or formatting, I'm new to Editing Talk. The article's statement:

The famous quote attributed to Wellington ("The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton") was certainly an invention; unlike his older brother, Wellington was not an academic success at Eton; on one of his rare visits back there, the only athletic activities he could remember were skipping across a brook, and fisticuffs with a fellow student.

...requires at least a reference, if not excision. In particular, who, other than the editor, believes it was "certainly an invention"? The sentence above entirely misses the point of its quote: "The playing fields of Eton" refers to what we Yanks call the playground, and to what we know as "playground rules"; i.e., what Wellington learned apropos Waterloo had ~nothing~ to do with academia, and ~everything~ to do with fisticuffs!!! It had to do with learning the lessons of basic human conflict and resolution where just about all of us (whoever learn them) learn them: on the playground! Sheesh... it's not like he was talking about calculating projectile trajectories, or referring to being a proper little boy scout, prompt, clean, honest, forthright and all that... it was learning how to scrap, and how to deal with bullies and challengers.

[Is this what is meant by signing my post with for tildes?] Marksgate Marksgate 14:52, 9 September 2007 (UTC)