Gaius Octavius

I can go to Hades in peace now! I got something almost right at last! Anyway, one may tell a leap year if it is divisible by four - except for some centennial years.

Get a grip! The Pats will be back up to the 40's and those other people will be back down to the teens!

Good grief! Is everyday a calamity for you? Has the Evil One put the perpetual Evil Eye on you? Get a figa. If you'd like a tele-exorcism, I am available.

I am sure that you will correct me if I am wrong. This looks like two leap years in four to me: "Julius Caesar reorganised the Roman calendar. Unfortunately there was a mix up with his instructions. Caesar said to insert a leap year every four years. Unfortunately the priests counted inclusively, so they were inserting leap years like this: * Year One - leap year * Year Two - standard year * Year Three - standard year * Year Four - fourth year so must be a leap year"

Klingon, would you please stop apologizing for you English. If anyone has a problem, they will ask you. It's the matter that counts, and you do just fine. Anyway, what is the 'Neo Assyrian Empire"?

If I could only understand your Brit twaddle, I'd be in fine fettle. Nonetheless, you seem to have a Black Cloud over your head. Would you like an exorcism?

Not to gainsay anything above, yet I understand that many of the wars on the Italian peninsula were set piece 'battles' (something like a chess game) 'fought' by condotorri. The opposing armies would maneuver, then whoever had the best positioning was declared winner. Little, if any blood spilled.

Did the Romans have a Camel Corps?

What is the point of all this twaddle? The Giants will collapse like a cheap camera. Frankly, I don't see any reason for the Super Bowl. Just give it to the Pats, and not disgrace the other people. I'll be back to gloat.

'Probability' is the operative word, not 'certainty'. Then there is that old saw: 'There are liars; damned liars, and then there are statistics'.

Good God, C., don't you know anything about me at all? Who's talking about doggie duty?

"Do you think that gold could support the above?" What specifically are you referring to? If the money supply were not able to expand, how would a company with little money and good credit expand? They couldn't sell gold bonds. How would a consumer with the same attributes, purchase anything? Here I am not talking about companies, nor people with 30 credit cards, and not enough wealth to buy a postage stamp. "Would our economy be what it is if not for a fiat currency?" No. I think it would be far more stable and sustainable in the long term. Market corrections would be fast and short. Not proven. Our GDP wouldn't be 70% credit driven consumption and we wouldn't be on the verge of stagflation. Agreed. The government would be limited to a realistic budget. A budget without corporate welfare. A budget without pork barreling and shrouded ear-marks. Personally, I would take great pleasure in strangling every member of Congress, and his family to the first degree, who voted to increase the national debt. Your retirement funds would retain value over time. Remember what you said about monarchs debasing gold currency. I think you are referring to the years 1979/80. Gold prices increased during the 70's after the dollar became completely fiat. Gold price was driven up as a reaction to the huge inflation and political turmoil of those years, until Volker forced a corrective recession (The only people who paid were the middle class and the poorest.) with high short term interest rates and individuals and banks sold off much of their gold. Oil prices, along with most other commodities, spiked at the same time. As far as oil prices are concerned, in the 1950's, the 'posted' price for oil was about $1.18 a barrel. (gasoline was under twenty cents a gallon). This 'posted price' was for royalty payments to syphilitic Arab kings, (Idris, Ibn Saud), and shieks. The actual trading price was about 50 cents. Gold is not a good way to make a profit, its a way to preserve purchasing power because its the most ideal natural means of exchange, as proven by thousands of years of human history. Thousands of years of history have proven that the vast majority of people could not move out of poverty. -------------------- Don't feel like editing this now, but I am sure that you get the idea. Bottoms up!

Mention camels, and the MUMMY dips his finger in it. Look, you deliquent, there are camels in Mongolia, and it's cold there! It seems that the Klingon has lost his Bering. Better take a GPS reading - quick! And get it Straight! Which variety will the U.S. get back? One or two humped?

I guess that your luck must change. Maybe you should give the Little Critter next door a kebab.

Assume that the chances are two in a billion. If you find one, how do you know that it is the right one? Let's not forget the standard deviation (or whatever deviation). There might be three, dare I say four tombs that fit the parameters used.

Penny oranges! 6 lbs of potatoes for 23 cents! Inflation!

Are you sure that no little cute furry critter was assaulted? PETA should be alerted next time.

Here in America, we have things called 'rest rooms' that are actually a structural part of the building. It's a very good idea. It seems that if you have any luck at all, it's all bad.

"I don't need Paul McKenna to cure me of anything. I need him to cure everyone else." Except for The G-Man and GO, of course.

You think that much of her?

And the grieves?

Bingo, N.D.! Now tell C. what a 'schmata' is.

Disco? Disco? I can't stand noise of any kind!!! :furious: Put me down for classical, Romance language folk, Standard American (Easy Listening). How could any human being stand for any of those rackets? Hah?

Happy Birthday! You can take the rest of the day off, and have a couple of pops.

One could see the tattoos under all the armor?