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Definitions by Kung-fu Jesus

There is a memo on my desk.
memo by Kung-Fu Jesus May 2, 2004

warsaw pact 

A treaty between the eastern bloc nations and the USSR to protect against NATO interferance, specifically in East Germany. Signed in 1955, the member states were the USSR, Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Czechoslovakia and bulgaria. It was an alliance of the "red" countries, except for former Yugoslavia, and later Albania would exclude itself. They basically would defend eachother if one was attacked. With the mighty Soviet union on thier side, no-one dared attempt this.


Communism killer Mikhail Gorbachev later took measures to abolish this treaty, allowing the member nation to do as the liked from December 1988. This lead to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the pact was ripped up completely as the USSR disbanded into the CIS nations.
Most of the warsaw pact nations joined NATO after the warsaw pact.

break it down 

(v.) to simplify for those unlikely to understand.
Let me break mass production Vs Quality control for ya...


Mass production= passable quality, affordable by everyone.

High standards of Quality Control= good quality, double priced, but only 10% can afford

Therefore out of 100 sales, 90x1 will go to mass production, while 10x2 will go to the financially privelged.

discrepancies 

There are several discrepancies between the fixed asset register (up to 2nd of May, 2004) and the fixed asset callings as at May 1, 2004.

schlieffen plan 

The Schlieffen Plan, the German General Staff's overall strategic blueprint for victory on the western front against France in the years up to 1914, takes its name from its author, Alfred Graf von Schlieffen. In essence it envisaged a rapid German mobilisation, disregard of Luxembourg, Belgian and Dutch neutrality, and the overwhelming sweep of German armies through Belgium southwards in the back of the French defences pivoting on weakly-held left-wing positions in the province ofAlsace-Lorraine. Paris was not to be taken but to be by-passed in the east. The plans intention was not to conquer cities or industry in order to weaken the French war efforts - the plan was to capture most of the French army and to force France to surrender. Following the speedy defeat of France, von Schlieffen envisaged switching German concentrations to the Eastern Front.

Schlieffen regularly updated details of his master plan as a labour of love even after his retirement from the General Staff in 1905, but his successor, Helmuth von Moltke (the younger) weakened the plan's execution in 1914 at the beginning of World War I, avoiding invading the Netherlands, weakening the German right wing and maintaining forces in the threatened East Prussia. Stubborn French resistance also contributed to the plan's failure in 1914. However, a modified form of Schlieffen's concept proved effective over the same terrain in the defeat of France in 1940 (Manstein's Sichelschnitt).
If at first you don't succeed, try tray again!

ill-will 

Hatred, malicious utterings.
Ye olde witch bring ye ill-will te thy nag!
ill-will by Kung-Fu Jesus May 2, 2004
Oh wyi mate. We goon dan tha pob laytag, ya gem?
wyi by Kung-Fu Jesus May 2, 2004