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Started by Caliga, October 28, 2011, 06:32:54 AM

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Ed Anger

#105
October 30, 2011, 05:12:26 PM
Quote from: Zoupa on October 30, 2011, 05:10:07 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 30, 2011, 01:23:20 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on October 30, 2011, 12:16:31 PM
QuoteActually, I kind of like the Tories.
Why? :blink:

Because they are the party of Maggie Thatcher.  :cool:

What's so cool about Thatcher?

Closed Josq's beloved coal mines.
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Ideologue

#106
October 30, 2011, 05:25:29 PM
She didn't back down to crypto-fascist aggression.  That's a point in her favor, I suppose.
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Zoupa

#107
October 30, 2011, 05:59:11 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 30, 2011, 05:25:29 PM
She didn't back down to crypto-fascist aggression.  That's a point in her favor, I suppose.

Any British PM would have. Big woop.

crazy canuck

#108
October 30, 2011, 07:20:07 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 28, 2011, 08:34:53 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 28, 2011, 06:11:23 PM
Actually the chances of Americans voting for a Martian are greater.
Sure.  You and Marti should write a book about everything you know about America.  At least it would be cheap to print, having just the front and back covers.  :rolleyes:

Were you going to say when the last time an openly athiest President was elected...

grumbler

#109
October 31, 2011, 06:07:14 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 30, 2011, 07:20:07 PM
Were you going to say when the last time an openly athiest President was elected...

Another non sequitur contest!  :w00t:

Okay, my entry: Mohammed Ali was born Cassius Clay.
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Razgovory

#110
October 31, 2011, 06:27:21 AM
If I had been named Cassius, I sure as hell wouldn't have changed it.  That's a pretty cool name.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Eddie Teach

#111
October 31, 2011, 06:54:18 AM
You might change your mind after growing up with all the kids in the playground calling you "Cassie."
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Razgovory

#112
October 31, 2011, 07:56:31 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 31, 2011, 06:54:18 AM
You might change your mind after growing up with all the kids in the playground calling you "Cassie."

I'm named after a town in Britain.  I can take it.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Brazen

#113
October 31, 2011, 08:05:33 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 31, 2011, 07:56:31 AM
I'm named after a town in Britain.  I can take it.
Good for you, Scunthorpe.

None of us will live to see the day Wills and Kate's first-born ascends the throne anyhow. If the Queen lives as long as her mother, she's got a good 15 years left in her before Charles gets a bash.

Razgovory

#114
October 31, 2011, 08:19:51 AM
Quote from: Brazen on October 31, 2011, 08:05:33 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 31, 2011, 07:56:31 AM
I'm named after a town in Britain.  I can take it.
Good for you, Scunthorpe.

None of us will live to see the day Wills and Kate's first-born ascends the throne anyhow. If the Queen lives as long as her mother, she's got a good 15 years left in her before Charles gets a bash.

Actually, there is a elementary school near by named, "Thorpe J. Gordon", so presumably there was someone who lived here named "Thorpe".
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

HVC

#115
October 31, 2011, 08:20:15 AM
this annoys me for some reason. if we're keeping the insitiution around for traditions sake (which i have no problem with) changing the tradition seems... off.
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Viking

#116
October 31, 2011, 09:07:32 AM
Quote from: Barrister on October 30, 2011, 01:23:20 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on October 30, 2011, 12:16:31 PM
QuoteActually, I kind of like the Tories.
Why? :blink:

Because they are the party of Churchill, of Disraeli, of Pitt the Younger, of Edmund Burke, and yes of Maggie Thatcher.  :cool:

So were Redmond O'Hanlon and the Papist Partisans of James II :contract:
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First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
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jimmy olsen

#117
October 31, 2011, 12:01:34 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 31, 2011, 06:54:18 AM
You might change your mind after growing up with all the kids in the playground calling you "Cassie."
Somehow I have to believe there weren't that many kids willing to tease Cassius Clay.
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The Brain

#118
October 31, 2011, 12:06:25 PM
Didn't one steal his bike or something? Which made him pick up boxing?
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grumbler

#119
October 31, 2011, 12:07:01 PM
Quote from: HVC on October 31, 2011, 08:20:15 AM
this annoys me for some reason. if we're keeping the insitiution around for traditions sake (which i have no problem with) changing the tradition seems... off.
I don't think that male-preference primogeniture was kept around for traditions' sake, I think it was kept because it was the law.  Updating laws to fit modern sensibilities seems to me a worthwhile exercise.
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