Gaius Octavius

oh and i am male too i forgot to add that hehe "hey man...."? Sirrah, you are addressing a Lady of Quality!

My Lord of the Herbs: :notworthy: I always attempt to satisfy my obligation to mankind. A heavy burden. As you are aware, I do address your discipleship with particular emphasis on the Perfect Patented Pertimaxus @ http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?automo...p;showentry=467 For yours and the many's elucidation and edification, I am presently in the process of testing a mash made with the waters of the Gowanus Canal. It has a certain other worldly taste usually associated with a beer and a bump.

NO! A thousand times NO! How can one put his trust in or give credit to any man who doesn't drink excessively? Sobriety is properly reserved for eclipses of the moon and only when they occur on the fifth Sunday of February. In answer to the Gentleman's query, sobriety is that state of human flux in which the mind is circumscribed by the modalities of dis-educated society. To bring you up to snuff on His Greekship, Don Giovanni, :notworthy: his profession is the testing of beer and its sundry derivatives. :drunk: Confirmation of this last may be enjoyed at: http://www.thenectarofgods.com/index.asp

I believe that the Romans objected to the exclusivity of some of these religions and groupings along with objecting to their practices. If the god and the worship weren't extreme, they didn't want to miss out on a 'good' thing though. If the philosophy didn't comport with the present mode, it was looked upon with suspicion.

It is probably extremely difficult to argue with the converted as they are usually the most zealous in their cause. Losing ones temper usually makes the contra party feel victorious and so he continues in his own vein without paying any heed to your arguments. By knowing his precepts and perhaps standing in his shoes, one might be able to change his outlook. Simply being right doesn't win an argument.

Aside from the obvious , wanna look at AoS's sketchbook?

They would need grappling hooks to get at my windowsill. (Don't you people have cellars in the boonies? ) If I didn't have to pick them up with a stick and a spoon :stretcher: , I'd invite them in to share in my bounty. :drunk: Aren't you too young to be tippin' high cotton? Will alert the provincial magistrates. :sneaky2: P.S. You don't need scientists to prove the Theory of Lunar Loonies; just ask any sober bartender.

If I understand the article, and if it is a correct rendering, then is it not the 'elites' who are running the educational system now? Not to go too far afield, but the only democracy in the Constitution is the House of Representatives. Yet this House is faulty as a democratic institution. There are districts in some states that are composed of more people than in some entire states. The now democratically elected Senate allows for the election of more senators from some dozen states whose populations total much less than that of Califorrnia. These states have more say in the election of presidents (via the Electoral College) than the more populous states. The Supreme Court needs no commentary. I am not sure if this system is genius or fault, but it is not democracy. At the Founding, it was one set of aristocrats (elites) taking over from another set. It was left to the states to decide who had the right to vote in elections. Not all men (to say nothing of women) were given the franchise. To this day, the most are not equal before the law. In my opinion elites, of any stripe, govern for their benefits and not the good of the many. Until very recently, the USA managed to be the envy of most of the world. All the above notwithstanding, the USA has a 'nous' - a soul - that propels it forward in all spheres.

Well, I am still waiting.

My Bride and I are pleased to know that neither you nor yours were hurt.

All Hail His Greekship! :notworthy:

There he :notworthy: goes again! Switching where he's from around and putting in more Greek gibberish. I think that I'll have an agent feed the squirrels at his place. Iupiter!, forgive me! I just realized that I am such an ingrate :whip: . After all he has done for me!

Maybe if you :notworthy: knock back some of those herbs you push on me, your memory might be jolted into action!

You mean GO would be so dastardly as to contrive a malady for you, and had the audacity to instill such pity in us for you and your state of being? Get a rope :giljotiini: Don't you mean :hang:

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Once again, I escaped Doom! It was a terrifying experience. A sage, Yogi Berra, once said: "When you see a fork in the road, take it." I did; wrong one. Fortuna was not at my side. Big blunder. I wound up with a bunch of Greeks and their gods. Almost got put on the menu. The babes were pleasing and willing. Horror of horrors!; there was a gaggle of little guys with horns on their heads and pointy ears, who were glued to ponies, chasing me all over the place. I had to keep one eye on where I was going and one on where they were headed. Greeks! The pseudo-food at the tavernas was less than pig swill. Moussaka! E-coli burgers between eggplant in paint sauce. Spanakopita! Grass and feta cheese on dead bread. I'd rather eat compressed saw dust with axle grease than feta alleged cheese. Goat! Reminded me of those little guys. Wasn't about to poison my genes. Didn't they ever hear of steak? Then wash these glops down with wretched Retsina! I'd rather suck on a pine tree. You can imagine my relief when Pantagathus :notworthy: came to my rescue. His Herculean efforts and vast influence with those Greeks was my redemption. I shall forever be grateful to him. :notworthy: Heaved into a Coast Guard brig at age seven. Rendered to Wild Moldavia last year. Now this. What's next? What do I see when I finally get home? Some woolly headed herb monger :notworthy: who is out to poison me, using the dictionary, that Black Adder supplanted Dr. Johnson's opus with, on me. A cheese-head from swissconsin putting the arm on my TV before I am at room temperature. I'll bet that the babe from la-la land :alien: had aikees on my A/C's. Wonder what that Egyptian kid :mummy: wanted to get his paws on? I'll remember them in my will. They'll get my old Conseco stock certificates. Huh! Thanks! :sniper:

Aha! I guess that the answer is cunningly hidden somewhere in that question. Thanks (And I now found out what that little red arrow next to a quote is about! Thanks.)

The BBC said that the gravestones of a freedman and his wife were found dated from the time of Nero. This prompts me to ask when did it become legal to bury people within the walls of Rome?

Conversely, wouldn't the Romans have picked up some Gallic bugs and have been decimated there from?

Good enough reason for C. to visit.

Maybe Caesar was prescient. See: Dacia If it was his intention to take Dacia, the last paragraph in the above might be a sufficient reason. Looking at a map of the area, it might have been first on his mind as it would remove a potential ally of the Parthians from his rear. To go through the bother of conquering an area to exterminate its population and turn it into a 'desert' makes no sense. To lose tax payers? To make land unusable (and therefor less valuable at sale) for its future Roman holders? I think not.

The Roman tie in is not the alleged 'throw away' line, rather it is the UNRV connection. That is Roman enough for me. Unless I am once again ignorantly mistaken, is it not the end user who presently pays the service provider for access to the Web? If the monopolies' legislators are going to do as instructed, the the charge to the consumer for access should then be a one time charge for the line filter and let it end there. If one has a Fax machine on a telephone line, and one does not ask for a Distinctive Ring Pattern, there is no charge for the service. The sender pays for the time and distance on line as with a voice call. Once again, unless I am ignorantly mistaken, this proposal sounds like the cell phone racket where both sender and reciever pay for time used. Not to forget the Romeing charges and the Indian Tax over charging rackets.

[quote name='FLavius Valerius Constantinus' date='Oct 16 2006, 11:42 PM' post='46919' I'm just wondering, just when the hell has the Geneva Convention ever been useful in the War on Terrorism. Because I sure as heck haven't seen any large benefits projected by any political side or even the media. I don't understand your point in its relation to my post.

You know very well that I have no idea of what you are going on about! Try to explain it in whatever language you are using these days, hah.