From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:48:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [OT] Raising the Double-headed Eagle on the Theodosian Walls, was Re: Roger's Quiz :-(
> --- Laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote: Yeah, well, so I make the usual Marxist use of that phrase look silly. Turning the clock back 70 years in a backwoods part of the Roman commonwealth isn't counterrevolution, but blowing those damn minarets off IS!!
From: Edward Lipsett <translation@i...>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 15:55:31 +0900
Subject: RE: [OT] Raising the Double-headed Eagle on the Theodosian Walls, was Re: Roger's Quiz :-(
The Japanese were more polite, and called it the Meiji Restoration... > -----Original Message-----
From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 00:05:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: [OT] Raising the Double-headed Eagle on the Theodosian Walls, was Re: Roger's Quiz :-(
--- "Edward Lipsett (work)" > <translation@intercomltd.com> wrote: You can be polite if you don't have to throw the Turks out of Anatolia for your restoration.:)
From: Edward Lipsett <translation@i...>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 16:11:25 +0900
Subject: RE: [OT] Raising the Double-headed Eagle on the Theodosian Walls, was Re: Roger's Quiz :-(
There is nothing incompatible about politeness and the willingness to blow someone's head off. You just do it with less screaming. > -----Original Message-----
From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 00:24:51 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: [OT] Raising the Double-headed Eagle on the Theodosian Walls, was Re: Roger's Quiz :-(
--- "Edward Lipsett (work)" > <translation@intercomltd.com> wrote: We don't scream when we're planning to blow someone's head off. They'd hear us coming. As long as you can hear us, you're safe. Unless, of course, we've bribed the Pechenegs to burn your camp while you're watching us scream.