vegetarianism is only an ego trip for the developed world's social inadequates and pseudo-intellectuals.
Off Topic but I saw an old routine by an American comedian named Chris Rock, last night and he made two comments which bear directly on your signature line, RK.
1- "Red meat won't kill you.......GREEN meat will kill you."
2- "If you are one of the chosen people on this planet that can get his hands on a steak....bite the shit out of it."
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Blair Tells Bush They Should Start Seeing Other People
British Prime Minister Signals End to Exclusive Relationship
British Prime Minister Tony Blair stunned diplomatic circles today by telling President George W. Bush that the time had come for the two men to start "seeing other people."
In case you haven't figured it out, Borowitz is insane.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
ok, i'm back up north and have drug out liddell & scott.
barbaros & keltoi.
by the way, for those of you unfamiliar with liddell & scott, its an ancient greek dictionary, first published in 1889 and updated regularly since. i consider it the oxford dictionary of anc. greek.
i'm using the seventh edition, here. as the words themselves are in greek script, you must be able to read greek to use the dictionary. so i have converted them into phonetic english. my appenda are are contained in parentheses.
barbaros, 'ou, i.e., not greek, foreign, known to Hom. (Homer), as appears from the word barbaraphonos in Il. (Iliad): - as Subst. barbaroi, 'oi, originally all that were not greeks, specially the Medes and the Persians,
Hdt., Att. : so the hebrews called the rest of mankind gentiles. From the Augustan age however the name was given by the Romans to all tribes which had no Greek or roman accomplishments. II. after the Persian war the word took the sense of outlandish, amathes kai barbaros Ar. (Aristotle); barbarotatos Id., Thuc. (Thucidides) (Deriv. uncertain.)
keltoi, 'oi, the kelts or celts, Htd. (Heroditus), Xen. (Xenophon): - hence keltikos, 'e, 'ou, celtic, gallic.
its very interesting to me that the greeks made a distinction between an (apparently) larger group of celtic people, "keltoi", and the gallic celts "keltikos".
The Greeks would certainly have come in contact with Gauls who settled in Central Turkey. They are known to history as The Galatians.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
I seem to have missed this one.
That's true enough Bob, but Marseilles (Massilia) was also a Greek trading colony, so they would likely have been familiar with them anyway.
For that matter Carthage established trading networks in Spain as well as Southern Gaul and would have spread Gallic goods throughout the Med.
One suspects that among the mercantile class, geographic knowledge was fairly widespread. It would almost have to have been.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
