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Never forget 3/15 - 9/23/2014 8:39:49 AM

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I mean, 44 BC was a turning point in my life, had events not unfolded as they had, I could've been somebody.

Jus sayin

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RE: Never forget 3/15 - 9/23/2014 9:00:11 AM

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Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

Had Shakespeare never been born, I probably would have written that.

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RE: Never forget 3/15 - 9/23/2014 9:20:23 AM

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Had Shakespeare never been born, I probably would have written that.

Nice save. I know you're a vampire lurking your way through time. You can't trick me, I'm far too stoopid.

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RE: Never forget 3/15 - 9/23/2014 12:07:56 PM

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I mean, 44 BC was a turning point in my life, had events not unfolded as they had, I could've been somebody.

Jus sayin

It will never be forgotten in my home and I only wish I was there to see it. But, you can't be everywhere and I was right in the front line when some catholic was attached to a wheel and had his arms and legs ripped from his body in 1623. Another water-shed event. On the other hand, the chicken wings and beer laid on weren't anything to write home about and this spoiled the event a touch, but we squared things up when we drowned him as a witch.

Oh, and you still can be somebody. A leopard really can change its spots, and there's no such thing as a dog too old to learn new tricks.

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RE: Never forget 3/15 - 9/23/2014 12:34:41 PM

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I was there for the shaming of Aethelred the Unready, and the much awaited death of King Olaf the Stout.

I'll never do either one of those again I can tell ya, I just ain't got the time.

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RE: Never forget 3/15 - 9/23/2014 12:44:14 PM

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I was there for the shaming of Aethelred the Unready, and the much awaited death of King Olaf the Stout.

I'll never do either one of those again I can tell ya, I just ain't got the time.

Those were the days, Ron. When disputes were settled over a chicken leg, a bowl of soup, a flagon of ale and honour.

Don't blame you for apportioning your time more wisely as King Olaf the Stout was a fat fucking idiot in need of a decent anger management course.

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RE: Never forget 3/15 - 9/23/2014 1:15:59 PM

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There is the story that one of his Jarls, Einar (I think) came to see Olav while he was having dinner, and the Carl or KARL (a job, not a name) had offended Einars honor by slaying a cousin or sommat, and so Einar axed him thru the head, and he fell onto Olavs table, spritzing blood on him, (drawing weapons in the presence of the king a major no no, not even contemplating the spraying him with blood while he was eating), he listened to Einars reasoning, and forgave him out loud, inviting him and his housecarls to morning prayers, and they went........Olav left first as was the protocol, had his housecarls bar the door and fire the church, immolating the entire clan.

I do not know if that was after the New Testament or before the ides of March, but our Canute having not much to worry about in England at the time came back and ruled Norway next.

And he had two sons by Emma, erstwhile wife of Aethelred, but they amounted to nothing....Edward Confessed it at some point and then on to William the Bastard (but normans are still nordmanni or northmen, an't they?)

Saxons, must have been Hengst and Horsa, bleedin Heins they were, but they didnt do more than a mere pittance, when the Pendragons came upon the scene, and insofar as the German royalty which was decended from the Carolingians (KARLings) was concerned, it appears the birch legs and long beards run deep in the royal families KARL MAGNUS (Charlemagne) was one of the boys it is oft told, but what this has to do with Agincourt, or Cromwell and the roundheads is anyones guess, if my John Thomas is any measure of the event.

Damn little, old bean, thats the gravamen.

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RE: Never forget 3/15 - 9/23/2014 1:43:44 PM

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Who dare say the Sun is false? He and no other warns us when dark uprisings threaten, when treachery and hidden wars are gathering strength. He and no other was moved to pity the world on the day that he died, when he veiled his radiance in gloom and darkness, and a godless age feared everlasting night.

Yet in this hour Earth also and the plains of Ocean, ill-boding dogs and birds that spell mischief, sent signs which heralded disaster. How oft before our eyes did Etna deluge the fields of the Cyclopes with a torrent from her burst furnaces, hurling thereon balls of fire and molten rocks. Germany heard the noise of battle sweep across the sky and, even without precedent, the Alps rocked with earthquakes.

A voice boomed through the silent groves for all to hear, a deafening voice, and phantoms of unearthly pallor were seen in the falling darkness. Horror beyond words, beasts uttered human speech; rivers stood still, the earth gaped upon; in the temples ivory images wept for grief, and beads of sweat covered bronze statues.

King of waterways, the Po swept forests along in the swirl of his frenzied current, carrying with him over the plain cattle and stalls alike. Nor in that same hour did sinister filaments cease to appear in ominous entrails or blood to flow from wells or our hillside towns to echo all night with the howl of wolves. Never fell more lightning from a cloudless sky; never was comet’s alarming glare so often seen.
…..that's the night...he died.

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RE: Never forget 3/15 - 9/23/2014 2:50:28 PM

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Can't call them communists now. - 9/23/2014 5:07:18 PM

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Anyone in objective observance couldn't and for sometime especailly given that a few years back, a 'party leader' lost I think $3 or $4 million in Vegas.

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However, after the Agricultural Bank of China in 2010 and now this ? Well...the jury is now out.

The Chinese for a political/economy experiment in history, are as likely THE new model...capitalist fascists.

I thought this was 'illegal.' Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank , Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan , Morgan Stanley and Citigroup acted as joint book runners for the offering.

So when I do get financing for my pool/hall restaurants (with no restaurants) here in Vegas...think they will let me run a little 'book' on the side ?

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RE: Can't call them communists now. - 9/23/2014 7:28:36 PM

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Anyone in objective observance couldn't and for sometime especailly given that a few years back, a 'party leader' lost I think $3 or $4 million in Vegas.

HERE

However, after the Agricultural Bank of China in 2010 and now this ? Well...the jury is now out.

The Chinese for a political/economy experiment in history, are as likely THE new model...capitalist fascists.

I thought this was 'illegal.' Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank , Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan , Morgan Stanley and Citigroup acted as joint book runners for the offering.

So when I do get financing for my pool/hall restaurants (with no restaurants) here in Vegas...think they will let me run a little 'book' on the side ?