*Adjusts pince-nez*'The expression 'Spandau Ballet' was slang used by Allied troops in the trenches in the First World War referring to the twitching of the corpses hanging on the barbed wire and repeatedly hit by Spandau machine gun fire from the German lines.'
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch,
Thu 21 May 2015, 22:59,
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