docoflove1974

MELLOW???? Hah!

I'm sure they're talking about your wine goblet...that it needs refilling.

Well, the cool part is right...but the immature isn't...and I hate green. Works for the most part...except for the "not at all frivolous" part...nope, not me, either. There we are! The closest one, yet! Too bad there isn't a red that works with me name...but I'll take a purple! Thanks, Nephele!

I had always heard that it depends on what a given society considers to be 'healthy'. For example, a 'healthy' woman during the Impressionist movement often had some body fat, was curvy and voluptuous...this was a sign that she was well fed, probably disease-free, and overall was healthy enough to bear children. As for the more modern fads, 'thin is in' could be construed as a reaction to the number of overweight people, that the idealized form of 'healthy' is thin--but not runway model thin, as that is 'too skinny' for most Western men (and probably many others around the world). But a woman who, again, looks well-fed, healthy, and possibly active (not necessarily muscular, but just someone who doesn't look like they spend all day and all night loafing around) is someone who is considered 'healthy' and therefore desirable. Any sense to this?

Ohfercryinoutlowd... arhsarnohma, pretty please...and I'm guessing it won't be 'burnt umber' or 'periwinkle'

Should we congratulate her? Or offer our symptathies?

You could always go to the store...

Figgers...all you made guys are all alike...buncha thugs, the lot of you.

WRONG! Brian never said those words...Mr. Cheeky began the song, everyone else but Brian sang along!

Eye-gor running a large part of the empire! Would he make the slap-stick humor work, too? Caesar? As in Julius? And a king??

"Gee, what's this horse head doing in my bed..." --GO

"Wow, that's one damn big tree" --Sonny Bono "Trust me, the natives here are really friendly...put on great, lavish dinners." --Ferdinand Magellan

You will go to Inferno for that...which level, I can't quite say...but in the cold depths you will be! (I never used to like cats...but she's a keeper )

Ok, I know I'm supposed to be offended by that...right? Anyway, GO, you should be very pleased that the pooch Nephele found you to be is named "Lord Edmund"! You've moved up the social ranks, BlackAdder!

That would be the correct version, yes (and GO's, too). Latin and (Ancient) Greek are sister languages, and due to their close proximity, there are some lexical borrowings. It's much like comparing English, Dutch and German, and noting that they are all very similar...they have the same parent language!

I can't speak for other areas of the Roman Empire, but in post-Empire Iberia, after the fall of the Gothic kings in 711, and with the massive wave of Moors who conquered, there was a relatively 'tolerant' position taken by the Moors and Caliphate in Cordoba. Ibero-Romance peoples were able to keep their culture, religion, and customs at will...however, if they wanted to climb the social ladder, they would be wise to morph into Islamic ways. In fact, linguistically there's a very rich area of 'mozarabes'--those Ibero-Romance peoples who took on Arabic/Moorish customs, names, and even language...but remained Christian. Their language appears in jarchas--Mozarabe poetry, often of love, rebellion or saddness, which is written in Middle Arabic or Hebrew, save for the last 2 stanzas. These last 2 stanzas are written in Arabic or Hebrew script, but are actually Ibero-Romance. The Mozarabes were bilingual and bicultural, by all discussions that I know. Now, this is all taken from two linguistics sources: Rafael LaPesa's Historia de la lengua espa

Oh...right...yeah...I thought that was a given...

Sell sell sell? Flaunt what yo mamma gave ya? Brains, not braun? I clearly have not learned the prior lesson...so, please, sir, remind me of your sagacious words. (That was very hard to say without laughing)

Oh Lord have Mercy...

Yes, please re-post the link! I'd be really curious to find out...my dad would constantly tease my maternal (and very Italian) grandmother, telling her that he had some African and Asian blood in her...oh the oodles of fun there!

Wanted: 3 more hours in the day Job description: I need 3 more hours per day in order to finish all of the work that I need to do. In those said 3 hours I need to do a combination of any of the following activities: ** sleep and/or rest ** eat ** grade papers ** finish editing ** play with Bella the Feline ** have a pot of tea ** go out into the garden and play in the dirt ** take a walk ** go for a swim Compensation: Getting more things done in the day. Any takers? Anyone? Bueler?

Amen :drunk: On a side note: when do the Italian-American populations start saying "eh, ma va, fuggedabawdit" and continue with the ? Is that before or after the raid?

That is just frickin cool.

As was mentioned earlier, the entity named as the 'Roman empire' does not necessarily end with the fall of Rome in the 5th century, but extends to include the Byzantine/Roman Empire. In that light, there were indeed muslims in the (eastern) Roman empire.

Agreed...it was a good game of slopball...