To: TigerLikesRooster
I’d cast a vote for Catherine the Great myself (that lucky horse).
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
8 posted on
07/15/2008 5:52:50 PM PDT by
lesser_satan
(Cthulu '08! Why vote for the lesser evil?)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
My family was a wedding present to Catherine the Great, so she is not exactly high on our favorite Russians (although to be fair, it was her father who gave his excess serfs away).
In fact, she ranks right up there with Stalin, who forcibly exiled everyone who still lived in Huck (now named Splavnucha) to Siberia and then had the tombstones in the cemetery torn up to erase all evidence of the village's previous inhabitants.
29 posted on
07/15/2008 7:26:42 PM PDT by
Stonewall Jackson
(Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - George Patton)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
LOL. No, that story was garbled, it was not said that she did it with a horse but that her favorite consort was “hung like a horse” :>)
35 posted on
07/15/2008 7:46:58 PM PDT by
Enchante
(BILL AYERS: "Now THESE are the Obamas I knew! Thank you, New Yorker, for showing my real friends!")
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