Gaius Octavius

Thanks?

Are you considering the angle of potential energy? And why couldn't they be trained to use the bow left handed?

Do you think that it could happen today? (Of course you know that I am waiting in ambush.)

When and why did the 'corvus' go out of style? Did Archimedes' 'clamp' actually exist, and if so, was it used elsewhere?

Lost Soul, did it ever occur to you that the Amazons were left handed and seven foots tall?

Absolutely no question that giuliani was a great hero! While I watched the WTC puffing down the Bay, I was making coffee. He was running away with his pal Kerik. The fire department priest was running into the mess, and was killed by a falling body. guiliani had the good sense to put Emergency Headquarters in a WTC building that was owned(?) by his pal silverstein, a political contributor. Couldn't have chosen a better target. After all, the WTC was hit once before. He was so prescient, that he didn't bother to make certain that the cops and firemen could communicate. But, he did have a lectern flunky to set up things for his unending press conferences. Should head up Homeland Security for the Screamer. ----------------------------- Why giuliani lost: "He was too New York, too Italian, and he had too many wives" Compliments of the New York Times.

"Is this the same thing you told me about via email?" Yes. Actually, I have received a couple of others earlier which I deleted. In future will forward them to you.

"The self-interest and internecine struggles of the Roman elite alienated the Roman people whose lives and lands they blighted. The cynical contempt of Rome's aristocracy for their own political system proved all too contagious and, even as they accepted the bribes, the electorate came to despise the bribers. ... in short, by the first century BC Rome was ripe for a military coup led by an aristocrat." ----------------- Source: http://www.unrv.com/book-review/sons-of-caesar.php

..., but a poor strategist.

Now, that's better! You work for my kind of company. Must be owned by Basil Fawlty and managed by Manuel. What do you mean that Albion has lost her empire? You still have Gibralta and Las Malvinas. Would you like South Carolina - back? Wouldn't go into work on Friday the Thirteenth. Do I take it that Manuel wants the kind of girl who is on the game? Who's your MP? Bertie Wooster? More importantly, what do you think that the score will be when the Rushey Platt eleven meet Spittle Croft next week?

I don't know why, but I just got a request to put commercials on the site. I think that we all owe thanks to Viggen, P.P. and Moonlapse for not allowing this garbage on the site.

You're a Kiwi not an Aussie! Thanks for trapping me! I'll get you! :ph34r:

Yes, and it lowers the overall IQ of their country dramatically. Look, I am trying to be good today. Stop tempting me! Go on, you know you want to. Aussies are such easy targets! OK, since I have your permission. I didn't know that Aussies had an IQ. We, both, have nothing better to do today!

Won't any of you contribute to the debate Moonlapse and I are having re the Gold Standard in my blog or his?

What, in your opinion, would have been the consequences for Rome, and the modern world, if Caesar were not murdered - and why?

Yes, and it lowers the overall IQ of their country dramatically. Look, I am trying to be good today. Stop tempting me!

Exactly!

I hope that I have the names right, but here goes anyway: Once upon some good hundred plus years ago, Commodore Vanderbuilt was collecting railroads. He decided the Erie Railroad would be nice to have, so he started buying up its stock. Now, there was a chap called Jay Gould, who really owned the RR. JG thought that it would be a very good idea to print up stock certificates as fast as the good Comm. could buy them. For some unearthly reason, the Comm. got the idea that he had bought the RR a couple of times. Sent his henchmen to JG's headquarters at the Erie station in Hoboken, N.J., and behold, stacks of certificates being printed up. Matters were settled by a gunfight at the station. Personally, I don't see why the good Comm. should have become so exercised. It was a free market after all. I would like to know if you think this type of peccadillo could happen again???

Doesn't that tell you anything more than what is on its face?

The G-Man: "Super Bowl XLII Fox - 6:30 pm The NY Giants defeated by the NE Patriots to become Super Bowl chumps."

Thanks, G-Man. Here is a bit more (pics) about the restoration. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/parthenon/restore.html

Would you expect a better idea from the most prolific party ever? (God's Own Party)

"The self-interest and internecine struggles of the Roman elite alienated the Roman people whose lives and lands they blighted. The cynical contempt of Rome's aristocracy for their own political system proved all too contagious and, even as they accepted the bribes, the electorate came to despise the bribers. ... in short, by the first century BC Rome was ripe for a military coup led by an aristocrat." From the above. ------------------------------ This should re-ignite something.

Amazons?

AKA, fraud or felony. ================= Do you know if the morning (starting) price of gold is still set by the London gold dealers? Just as an aside, one of the curators at the Brooklyn Museum, once told me that the gold miners in the jungles of South America knew the above price shortly after it was set each day. ------------------------------ Here is something to think about today: http://online.barrons.com/article/SB120153...html?mod=djemBF