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Started by Admiral Yi, July 22, 2009, 03:15:40 PM

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Valmy

#1905
January 20, 2012, 12:54:26 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on January 20, 2012, 12:50:51 PM
Who was King of France when Jacques Cartier died?

Um...Henri II?
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Grey Fox

#1906
January 20, 2012, 01:03:24 PM
Yes.

You are on deck.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Valmy

#1907
January 20, 2012, 01:06:22 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on January 20, 2012, 01:03:24 PM
Yes.

You are on deck.

Holy crap that was a wild guess.  I just knew it was in the 16th century so I guessed a 16th century king.

Ok...the French Revolution attempted to fund itself through what means and what was the name of the paper money that resulted?

Hint: not futures on the Aristocratic head harvest and they were not called 'Francs'.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Eddie Teach

#1908
January 20, 2012, 01:18:51 PM
Quote from: Valmy on January 20, 2012, 01:06:22 PM
Hint: they were not called 'Francs'.

Euros?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Syt

#1909
January 20, 2012, 01:30:40 PM
Ecu?
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Valmy

#1910
January 20, 2012, 01:31:18 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 20, 2012, 01:18:51 PM
Euros?

Yes!  The EU wants to glorify the French Revolution foreva! :frog: :wub:

Ok actually no but that would be funny.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Valmy

#1911
January 20, 2012, 01:31:32 PM
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

PDH

#1912
January 20, 2012, 01:32:18 PM
assignats
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Valmy

#1913
January 20, 2012, 01:33:15 PM
Quote from: PDH on January 20, 2012, 01:32:18 PM
assignats

Ding ding!  And what were they based on?

Ron Paul will be sad to know it was not gold.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Malthus

#1914
January 20, 2012, 01:37:53 PM
Quote from: Valmy on January 20, 2012, 01:33:15 PM
Quote from: PDH on January 20, 2012, 01:32:18 PM
assignats

Ding ding!  And what were they based on?

Ron Paul will be sad to know it was not gold.

Shares of the plunder of Italy?
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Grey Fox

#1915
January 20, 2012, 01:39:02 PM
Spices?
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

PDH

#1916
January 20, 2012, 01:40:37 PM
They were based on stolen property, specifically church property.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Drakken

#1917
January 20, 2012, 01:41:36 PM Last Edit: January 20, 2012, 01:47:16 PM by Drakken
Quote from: Valmy on January 20, 2012, 01:33:15 PM
Quote from: PDH on January 20, 2012, 01:32:18 PM
assignats

Ding ding!  And what were they based on?

Ron Paul will be sad to know it was not gold.

Lands and properties seized to the Church.

PDH beat me to it by a minute.

Valmy

#1918
January 20, 2012, 01:48:10 PM
Quote from: PDH on January 20, 2012, 01:40:37 PM
They were based on stolen property, specifically church property.

Ding ding!  You are up.

Nothing like a church-persecuting based economy.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

HVC

#1919
January 20, 2012, 01:49:23 PM
Quote from: Valmy on January 20, 2012, 01:48:10 PM
Quote from: PDH on January 20, 2012, 01:40:37 PM
They were based on stolen property, specifically church property.

Ding ding!  You are up.

Nothing like a church-persecuting based economy.
somewhere out there Marti creamed himself and he doesn't know why
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
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