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Archeologists: Caligula was ‘maniac’
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| 8/11/03
Posted on 08/11/2003 12:44:41 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Too much in-breeding.
To: LibWhacker
Man, I hope that the Clinton Library in Little Rock doesn't engulf the whole town!
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posted on
08/11/2003 12:48:05 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(Graduate: Burt Gummer's Survival School)
To: LibWhacker
Power Corrupts
Knowledge = Power
Study Hard
Be Evil
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posted on
08/11/2003 12:58:31 PM PDT
by
Hodar
(With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
To: lilylangtree
Drat the person who discovered that storing the wine in lead jugs made it taste sweeter...
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posted on
08/11/2003 12:58:38 PM PDT
by
trebb
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To: kafir
he thought he was one of the gods, This is hardly unique to Caligula.
This is hardly even unique to elite.
To: LibWhacker
"Its like someone a president or a king or you know, Bill Gates turning St. Peters into their entrance hall"Bill just didn't think of it. Hillary might, though.
Seriously though, everyone knows Caligula was insane. He threatened to make his horse a member of the nobility and had a silence decree so the horse wouldn't be disturbed. Some historians say that was just his quirky sense of humor. I say it's proof he was a psychopath and a megalomaniac.
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posted on
08/11/2003 1:30:41 PM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: cake_crumb
Is it any wonder he was mad, when he had a constant galloping in his head?
To: LibWhacker; All
One day [Caligula] was on the Oration Platform in the Market Place dressed as Jove and making a speech. I intend shortly, he said, to build a city for my occupation on top of the Alps. We Gods prefer mountain-tops to unhealthy river-valleys. From the Alps I shall have a wider view of my Empire -- France, Italy, Switzerland, the Tyrol and Germany. If I see any treason hatching anywhere below me, I shall give a warning growl of thunder so! (He growled in his throat.) If the warning is disregarded I shall blast the traitor with this lightning of mine, so! (He hurled his piece of lightning at the crowd. It hit a statue and bounced off harmlessly.) A stranger in the crowd, a shoemaker from Marseilles on a sight-seeing visit to Rome, burst out laughing. Caligula had the fellow arrested and brought nearer the platform, then bending down he asked frowning: Who do I seem to you to be? A big humbug, said the shoemaker. Caligula was puzzled. Humbug? he repeated. I, a humbug! Yes, said the Frenchman, Im only a poor French shoemaker and this is my first visit to Rome. And I dont know any better. If anyone at home did what youre doing hed be a big humbug.Caligula began to laugh too. You poor half-wit, he said. Of course he would be. Thats just the difference.
-- Robert Graves, I, Claudius.
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posted on
08/11/2003 1:35:06 PM PDT
by
dighton
(NLC™)
To: LibWhacker
"But later historians and archaeologists suggested some of the stories could have been politically motivated by those who wanted to slander the slain emperor"Yeah, musta been that nasty Roman VRWC.
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posted on
08/11/2003 1:36:05 PM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: correctthought
"Is it any wonder he was mad, when he had a constant galloping in his head?"LOL!
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posted on
08/11/2003 1:36:59 PM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: cake_crumb
I say it's proof he was a psychopath and a megalomaniac. Yes, but you've gotta admit it'd be fun to replace all the rats in the House and Senate with braying jackasses. :-)
To: LibWhacker
Other than the improvement in IQ and better smell, would there be a real difference?
To: dighton; hellinahandcart
One day [Caligula] was on the Oration Platform in the Market Place dressed as Jove and making a speech.
To: LibWhacker
"Yes, but you've gotta admit it'd be fun to replace all the rats in the House and Senate with braying jackasses."LOL....think the public would notice the difference?
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posted on
08/11/2003 1:43:14 PM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: correctthought
IQ, better smell, braying more melodious, AND we could get more done! :-)
To: Thinkin' Gal
Ah, all hail Clintigula!
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posted on
08/11/2003 1:47:44 PM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: LibWhacker
:)
To: cake_crumb
Caligula's acts of depravity were a flaunting of his power and an expression of contempt for the noble Roman institutions, such as the senate and the temples, as much as anything else.
The decadence of the Romans is not much different from the decadence of contemporary "Liberalism", i.e. the Left.
So consuming is the hatred of the Left for America, Christianity, and Western Civilization that they seek to destroy them and replace them with anything--even naziism or its 21st century recrudescence fanatical Islam.
If not checked, the Left will lead the world into a hell of decadence and depravity.
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posted on
08/11/2003 2:56:39 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(The American Heartland--the Spirit of Flight 93)
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