Gaius Octavius

If you would like to read something more modern, try B.H. Liddell Hart's "Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon" He was a British officer in WWII and a military historian. http://www.amazon.com/Scipio-Africanus-Gre...n/dp/0306805839

Hay, DoLl, how did your interview in America come out?

You are not going to get better than Ursus gave you..

It's pronounced 'Bouquet'! :ph34r:

Neither would a civilized human being live in a house w/o a/c! Have a pop Doll, it's your birthday. Skip the sushi!

For the New Year, GO RESOLVES to: Stop bugging the Lost Soul, My Lady Sophia, Doll, My Lords Pantagathus & Pertinax, The G-Man, MPC, and of course, the most highly esteemed and honourable "Fair is fair, young man,....". Start bugging Domina Nomina, Kosmo, Viggen, The Klingon, GPM, JR, Faustus, and Moonlapse. Stop imbibing of wine, whisky, and beer - while posting to UNRV. Stop posting in enigmas so as not to confuse great minds. Not to use talking smilies! Stop lying. For 2008, GO PREDICTS: Maladict will be elected pope - of the Pastafarians. Basil Fawlty and Hyacinth Bouquet will take over the management of The Ritz. Now that Tony Blair has made the Leap, Prince Charles will convert to Catholicism, thus driving the Royal Family, and Parliament into apoplexy, to say nothing about giving the now plurality Catholiics untolled great belly guffaws! Guy Fawkes will be declared a Saint! My Lord Pantagathus will be found skulking around some Grecian village - plotzed. God will stop having chin wags with georgius Secundus, Osama, and the Telereverendos. My Lords Pertinax & Pantagathus will open 'Smoke & Beer Cafes' in San Francisco and Amsterdam. "Fair is fair, young man,...." will be deported to Russia and/or shot for a trophy. PP will write up the history of Pope Gaius (really!). N.N. will make a 1:1 model of the Colosseum. Domina Nomina will be thrown off of the dole! Cicero, Brutus, and Cato will be declared saints - in the Cult of the Flying Pizza. Faustus & Ursus will have their pants sued off for copyright infringement! Caldrail will win a Certified Pre-Owned 50 year old jalopy. GO will suffer eternal 'Damnatio' - smashed! HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL Y'ALL!

It should be noted that your parents managed to cheat the tax men out of an exemption. Nice timing!

Happy Birthday Doll!

Does it have air conditioning?

Doesn't bother me in the slightest. Go to it. !

A visit to Melvadius photo strip is well worth while: http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?automo...si&img=2030

When you start a topic in the arena, the post is invisible. Only a Moderator can see it. The moderator has to approve it to make it visible and thus accessible to everyone. Since it's up here, delete it in the 'Arena'.

Tried to put this in the Arena. No Luck. It does discuss Rome. http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/history/default.html If you know how to open the videos, please let me know.

Better make sure that he doesn't have a gun, or suffers that peculiarly American disease - Roadrageosisitis!

I too am a Pastafarian. Think of all the good things the Spaghetti Monster has given to the world! I also worship with the Cult of the Flying Pizza.

I don't mean to play lawyer, (which I am not), here, but let me present two situations: 'A' buys the book, and then passes ownership to 'B', who then passes it on to 'C', and so on. A library purchases the book, and lends it out to all comers. The point of copyright laws being not to cheat the author (or his assigns) out of royalties. Another question would be: Is the Forum, (technically), in the 'public domain'? I believe that Faustus credited the book. I HOPE THAT NO ONE RELIES ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF MY QUIBBLES!

Weapon of Mass Destruction!

An age ago, I read a newspaper report about a tribe that was still guarding a Roman fort in southern Egypt, or the Sudan, awaiting the legionaries return. Ring a bell for anyone?

I think that women were celebrating something at Caesar's house the night (?) before he was murdered. Men were excluded from the celebration. And the Vestal Virgins. Ring any bells?

Join the party! One never makes a brave an Indian chief. With handcuffs and guns, they are tyrants. Maybe this will cheer you up. My Texan Aunt, (a Southern Belle), had a son who became a flatfeet. One day she was tooling down a highway, doing nothing wrong, when of a sudden, the flashing lights and the siren came on behind her. Scared the grits out of her. Pulled over. A cop ambled over to her exceptionally slowly. Started with the usual crap and then some. Had her step out of her car, and went on and on. She chanced to glance at the squad car; behold!, her stupid son gaffawing. She ran over to the squad car, dragged him out, and commenced to smack his luckless head around while he stood there with his hands at his sides, and laughing like a loon. Tied up traffic for miles as happy drivers stopped to cheer her on. Needless to say, things did not go well for dumb bell, at home, for a very long time. And, yep, GO once got nailed for driving too slow!

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The Augusta calls to mind my 'Old Man'. He would marinate roasted chestnuts and other fruits for a couple of days in barberone wine. All the kids would go after these fruits as if they were mana from heaven.

Cops are worthless when it comes to stealing cars. Mine was stolen out of a Mafia parking lot. Neither the Mafia nor the flatfoots were of any help. You're lucky the flatfoots didn't inject you into the slammer. The black helicopters are jam full of babes, take advantage of the situation.

In addition to destroying The City, the Vandals destroyed all of the cultural artifacts of Rome. That has not been forgotten.

Oh!, just great! As if I know what you are babbling about. What goodies did you stuff down your gullet that had to be washed down by that vino? The Klingon's stuff is making me drool. I haven't had that stuff since I baby sat the Danish Consul's home. Going to get it at Fairway next year. Viggen had better chime in, lest I treat him severely. Don Tomato