I am feeling like I might imagine the Romans did long about 409 AD

Stinky The Clown

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Wed Mar-18-09 09:56 PM
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I am feeling like I might imagine the Romans did long about 409 AD

This post has not one iota to do with Obama. It is much bigger than that.

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havocmom

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:01 PM
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1. Mentioned same thing other night to my sweety

Yep, I know the feeling.

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Lilith Velkor

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:05 PM
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2. Yyyup.

OT: for a minute there, I thought your subject line said "sweaty." I hope the building turns the AC on soon...

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Stinky The Clown

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:08 PM
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4. "Sweaty"

One time when I was on the road, I was chatting with Sparkly and mistyped "sweaty" for "sweety".

That was years and years ago. We still laugh about it.

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havocmom

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:10 PM
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6. Hey, if after lots of years together, sweaty is still an option...

GREAT! :evilgrin:

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Stinky The Clown

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:12 PM
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8. *snort*

I used to be Winky The Clown ... Now I am Stinky the Clown.

:rofl:

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havocmom

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:13 PM
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9. Oddly enough, my younger brother is Wrinkles the Clown

He won't iron his shirts and nobody takes him seriously. :shrug:

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Stinky The Clown

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:17 PM
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10. I thought you were going for......

.... and age joke!

"Wrinkly the Clown"???

:making note to self:

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havocmom

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:20 PM
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11. If I could get back down to fighting trim, I'd be Slinky the Clown

or, maybe that's when I fall down the stairs...

At my age, I forget.

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havocmom

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:08 PM
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5. AC? LOL I am in Montana. We are just thawing!

;)

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Lilith Velkor

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:26 PM
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13. Come to DC.

We have cherry blossoms just starting to bloom! :party:

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havocmom

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:40 PM
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17. Nope. Violent allergy to urban areas

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Stinky The Clown

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:06 PM
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3. I almost feel like we ought to just quit screwing around and let it happen.

To horribly mix and match metaphors ...... Stop that swinging Damaclesian sword and let the other shoe drop.

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havocmom

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:11 PM
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7. I'm getting there too.

Edited on Wed Mar-18-09 10:11 PM by havocmom

Just coming to the conclusion that the majority of people are too damned dense or infantile to bother with trying to save.

Then, some young person will go and give me hope. Damn them :P

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Lilith Velkor

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:25 PM
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12. Uh...how?

(Don't get me wrong - at the last economic summit, my bros hung a large black banner with the helpful suggestion "LET THE EMPIRE FALL", but other than that, I got nothin.)

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Stinky The Clown

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:33 PM
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14. "how?"

Just do nothing.

Take a vacation.

In six months it will all be over.

We'll be living in a Mad Max world

Geezers like me will be the first to get killed for food.

Relief.

Or not. :shrug:

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The River

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:35 PM
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15. Just Wait For The 10th Century

lifestyles we'll be living soon.

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bemildred

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:39 PM
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16. I was thinking Britain around 1900, the Boer or Crimean wars.

Or the French in Mexico. But Julian the Apostate could work.

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lumberjack_jeff

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:52 PM
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18. I always wanted to be a Visigoth or a Vandal when I grew up. n/t

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rpannier

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Thu Mar-19-09 12:10 AM
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24. I got dibs on being leader of the Huns....

Edited on Thu Mar-19-09 12:10 AM by rpannier

Ricktillah The Hun

I like the sound of it

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anaxarchos

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Wed Mar-18-09 10:55 PM
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19. Two years before the Visigoths stormed the city?

You know that more than half of the Romans turned out in the streets to greet the VGs as liberators, don't you?

...And they weren't wrong either. Alaric granted them protection. The others? Not so much.

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Two Americas

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Wed Mar-18-09 11:26 PM
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20. lol

Edited on Wed Mar-18-09 11:26 PM by Two Americas

Didn't notice the user name at first, and thought "who here would know that?"

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anaxarchos

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Thu Mar-19-09 12:00 AM
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22. Us ancient Greeks would know... n/t

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Two Americas

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Thu Mar-19-09 12:09 AM
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23. well, ancient, yes

At least in my case.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Wed Mar-18-09 11:29 PM
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21. they didn't have a clue, at least most didn't

US citizens have no clue...

By the way, we are stuck (part of the problem) in the 14th century, how the fuck we went from the Enlightenment to that religious insanity will be for some historian (Perhaps a descendant of CATO) to decide

And yes, a few in Rome knew... even before 409 rolled around... but most... didn't

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Two Americas

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Thu Mar-19-09 04:08 AM
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25. hey!

Are you trying to blame Obama for the fall of the Roman Empire?

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Delphinus

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Thu Mar-19-09 06:52 AM
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26. I'm learning a lot in this thread.

Thanks, all!

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