Gaius Octavius

Lots of luck, kiddo. You just might enjoy the train ride. Don't forget a camera.

The pizza flys into Pertinax' face. He takes on a Perfect Patented Pertimaxi and great umbrage. Pantagathus and MPC commence a diatribe over the price of grapes in Scythia. GO thinks that things are about to take a bad turn. And then...!!!???

A few more insights: http://www.unrv.com/decline-of-empire/pertinax.php

GO, recovering from the Mickey, now trusts no one. He has an unholy premonition, and decides not to partake of the feast. He orders in a pizza. And then...!!!???

Nice work, N.C. Thanks. Question: Didn't '-ianus' indicate adoption?

How does one open this up? You dont - thats the photo! So, what's the point? I'm lost!

How does one open this up?

Komrade Patriots: Why is it that, if a woman wears pants and a polo shirt, she is cool; whereas if a man wears a dress and pumps, he is a degenerate? Why are there no great female philosophers? If evolution is a fact, why isn't a monkey dropping out of a tree now and proclaiming: "Ecce Homo"? Queen Victoria spawned a crop of jackasses and idiots. Not that Gaius wishes to be too severe on the 'poor lad', but a 'certain party' should know that it is against the first WASP Commandment to talk with one's hands. The second commandment requires one to keep his elbows tucked in. No subway strike - yet. Rats! Cookie baking went well. Domina Claudia dropped a rolling pin on a Jack Russell's head. No sense. No feeling. No foul. Told a little boy, who was outnumbered by little girls, that Gaius had already spent a day in a Coast Guard brig at his age after being caught on failed stealing sortie; failed escape attempt; rifle pointed at captured ruffians. Made his day. Soon will be talk of the playground. Same kid only managed to decorate a few cookies and all his clothes. Kept sticking his fingers in the icing and eating the muck. Looked like a voting Iraki. Didn't have many cookies for himself, so Gaius told him to steal the girls' cookies. After all, they were only girls. Got the Evil Eye from mama. Kid chased JR's. Finally realized JR's were chasing him. Great fun until kid crashed into wall. Fed JR's carrots; skritched their tummies and opened doors for them when varmints put in appearances. Varmints all escaped and flipped the bird to them. They in turn licked me up. "Oh, what the blazes, let's give him a couple of kisses." Gaius took nap; so, one took a nap on Gaius' chest, the other on his lap. Gaius had a fine day. As Irak gains liberty, we lose ours. Just like a balloon. Sounds fair to me. When civil servants go on strike, it is always for the benefit of the masses. When politicos raise their salaries, they deserve it for all their hard work. Do they get docked when they are out conducting shakedown cruises or when they are off trying to get another job servicing the polloi? The Kali4kneeya Land Baron used to dock me for taking lunch. Some partner. Oh, oh! We now have a Triumvirate of Satan. Castro, Chavez & Morales. Cuba, Venezuela & Bolivia. Sugar, oil & tin. Time for them to get some freedom - if we can find the troopers. We all have to make sacrifices and stay the course. So, I am going to do my patriotic duty and volunteer the efforts of a 'certain party', his fellow draft dodgers, his daughters and grandma. I wish that 'certain party' would get his ears bobbed. Noback will now grace Fox. Where else? Looking forward to his make-up job. They'll need a battalion of beauticians to work on that head. His nose, lips and ears need work. Come to think of it, some 'retired surgeon' might re-do the entire head, on the cuff, in the interests of sight pollution. _____________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT Today's Journal was funded by the Barbara Z. & George H.W. Bush Foundation for Honesty & Sarcasm in Journalism. The Rush Limbower Foundation for Circular Logic. And... (Ta Da!), The Bill O'Ryeley Foundation for Fair and Balanced News. _____________________________________________________________________________ C. Octavius SPQR

Ankara?

Very good of you, Dr. AD. Thanks. Now, I am wondering if any of the frescoes extant, picture these fruits, and thus might produce a time frame?

Oats, is this a 'what if' thread?

Listen kid, pay attention to your 'Old Man', he has more experience than you do. Not everyone is who he appears to be. Pater Arcanae.

As long as we are playing mental gymnastics, lets throw the greatest Captain ever, into the mix, Scipio Africanus.

"It's written Caesar".

I've only watched the first two episodes of 'Up Pompeii", and have concluded that I hate, hate ,hate you Brits! Now I must have the DVD. I'll bet that couldn't be shown on US TV today. What does two 'V's' mean. Wasn't that Mr. Rumbold in the conspiracy scene? That is some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen. My Lord Pertinax, can you put up Chelmsford 123 and Carry on Cleo or any other spoofs? How do you spell Titia, with one or two T's? Is Sophia, Ludicrous wife? No one does it near as good as you Brits do!

All the Italian cities joined against Hannibal, though there were defectors. Not all the Celts or North Africans were happy about him or Carthage.

'Little marmoset'?

She'll soon have a fatwa on her throat.

One might ask who erased Aristotle in the first instance? Might there not have been copies of the other books in the monastery? The monk was certainly no ignorant itinerant beggar. Aristotle was, and is, a pagan 'saint' of the Church - Aristotelian/Thomistic logic.

Assuming that Alexander went west after returning from India, if for no othere reason than conquest, might not the Italian peninsula have united against him? Might not the Celts and Carthagenians also have joined in this alliance?

A.D., I am sure that you are correct about that site. Could you supply a time line for the migration of the fruits to western Europe?

A.C., one day you will learn not to challenge My Lady of the North!

A secret agent of IRIS reports that she has seen DoL picking up the crumbs - one at a time.