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BBC ^ | 9-29-2005

Posted on 09/29/2005 1:52:09 PM PDT by blam

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To: blam

"Odysseus Unbound" sounds like the title of a Steve Reeves movie.

I'll probably break down and buy it anyway.


21 posted on 09/29/2005 10:49:20 PM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("Fidel NEVER was the "bad" person except being designated as such." hombre_sincero, Freeper)
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To: SunkenCiv; blam

Blam's just not on the ball anymore! -:)


22 posted on 09/30/2005 5:26:31 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: blam

Neat


23 posted on 09/30/2005 5:30:30 AM PDT by Dustbunny (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
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To: wagglebee
"Blam's just not on the ball anymore! -:)"

Just trying to say out of management, that's SunkenCiv's job. (ahem)

24 posted on 09/30/2005 5:35:36 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam; SunkenCiv

Well then he should be paying you more, you do most of his work.


25 posted on 09/30/2005 5:37:43 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: blam

I would tend to doubt it, as place names can be very durable things -- I would guess the island of Ithaki. However, there is the counterexample of Scotia, which once meant Ireland and not Scotland, so I suppose the same thing might have happened to the Ithaca placename over the millenia.


26 posted on 09/30/2005 7:15:46 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: drjimmy
There is scholarly debate over whether there even was a "Homer" who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.

From what I have read, the Odyssey and the Iliad were not composed by Homer, but by another blind Greek poet with the same name.

27 posted on 09/30/2005 8:01:23 AM PDT by night reader (NRA Life Member since 1962)
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From what I have read, the Odyssey and the Iliad were not composed by Homer, but by another blind Greek poet with the same name.

Oh THAT Homer.

28 posted on 09/30/2005 8:25:05 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: wagglebee; blam

I propose a 100 per cent raise. ;')


29 posted on 09/30/2005 8:34:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: SunkenCiv; wagglebee
"I propose a 100 per cent raise. ;')"

I'm reminded of the song:

"something from nothing leaves nothing...you gotta have something if you wanna be with me."

100% of nothing is still nothing...

30 posted on 09/30/2005 10:24:44 AM PDT by blam
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I feel a little guilty, as I've set my own salary to four times that much. ;')


31 posted on 09/30/2005 11:17:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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To: blam; SunkenCiv

Well my last dividend check bounced, so you'll have to wait in line!


32 posted on 09/30/2005 11:19:09 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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