Lest We Forget

[SOCL]

Today, a little over two thousand years ago, in the year 44 Before Common Era (BCE), a man by the name of Gaius Julius Caesar (also spelled: Caius Iulius Caesar) died while addressing the imperial Senate of Rome. He was stabbed to death by conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Marcus Licinius Crassus, both senators and men who claimed to be Caesar's freinds, who felt that what they were doing was the only way to prevent despots like Marius (Gaius Marius) and Sulla (Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix) from rising-up and taking the dictatorship as an office for life--they believed that by killing Caesar, they would end rule by what was basically a king. In the end, though, this assassination would result in a civil war that would find the conspirators--or Liberators, as they called themselves--dead and Caesar's adopted son, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, as victor, eventually coming to be known as "Imperator Caesar" and "Augustus", the first emperor of the Roman Empire.

 

Today, my friends, is the Ides of March. In commemoration of that day so many years ago, I declare that today everyone wear green and pinch anyone who is not!

[Vero]

still wednesday here

[Mad78]

Do what ever you which SOCL but i don't think i shall follow that way of action.

[SOCL]

Do what ever you which SOCL but i don't think i shall follow that way of action.

Huh? I must have missed what you're talking about.

 

You, jeez, I'm an idiot! I posted this today and meant to do it yesterday! And, in reality, I did confuse the fact that today is not Ides of March by St. Patrick's Day...though it was intentional for me to have the joke about people where green and pinching those who don't....

[Jahled]

..speaking of St.Patrick's day... did you know he was Welsh? Kidnaped by a very violent tribe of the Irish called the Gails? Did you also know that the so called 'loyalists' in the North of Ireland are the Scots who migretated to Scotland FROM Ireland intime for the Romans to name Scotland after it's hardest tribe? It was these guys who migretted back to the the north of ireland with subsequent non-catholic beliefs that have remained steadfast to the British Crown.

 

Julias Ceaser highlighted the incredible energy of military conquest that the Romans demonstrated. He finnished his campaigns in Gaul with about a million slaves. I think only the Qin dynesty of ancient China could match such a record for military conquest..and triamph.. though they passed into history far sooner than the Romans.

[SOCL]

..speaking of St.Patrick's day... did you know he was Welsh? Kidnaped by a very violent tribe of the Irish called the Gails? Did you also know that the so called 'loyalists' in the North of Ireland are the Scots who migretated to Scotland FROM Ireland intime for the Romans to name Scotland after it's hardest tribe? It was these guys who migretted back to the the north of ireland with subsequent non-catholic beliefs that have remained steadfast to the British Crown.

It's always interesting to learn new things, since I'm not too aquainted with the history of the British Isles.

 

Julias Ceaser highlighted the incredible energy of military conquest that the Romans demonstrated. He finnished his campaigns in Gaul with about a million slaves. I think only the Qin dynesty of ancient China could match such a record for military conquest..and triamph.. though they passed into history far sooner than the Romans.

His record would have either been grander or destroyed had he lived past the Ides since he had been planning a campaign against the proven Parthian military. Actually, it would be interesting to know how such a protracted campaign commanded by a many Caesar would have turned out...

[Trejiuvanat]

Soothsayer (Zootsayer?): 'Beware the Ides of March'

Caesar: He is a dreamer, let us leave him.

 

(Shakespeare: Julius Caesar)

 

St Patricks Day? What's so special about it, other than being a Irish holiday?

[Guest JediIgor]

His record would have either been grander or destroyed had he lived past the Ides since he had been planning a campaign against the proven Parthian military. Actually, it would be interesting to know how such a protracted campaign commanded by a many Caesar would have turned out...

 

Well, according to Rome: Total War, once I have an empire the size of Caesasr's I can roll over any faction..err.. nation.. in under 10 years . Heh, heh, heh.

[kaja]

10:22 PM, Wednesday for me, I hope The Next day goes by quickly (And I'm Better of this Wretched Sickness!), Because the Eighteenth is my Birthday!!

[dinochick]

well, now I am confused, but that may be just because I am just now waking up So, anyway, Happy St. Patricks Day

[SOCL]

St Patricks Day? What's so special about it, other than being a Irish holiday?

It's not just an Irish holiday (or so it seems), but it's much more: It's a day when Americans who have never been to Ireland, much less Europe or any other nation celebrate their "Irish heritage" (most of which is 10 or 20 generations back and survives in maybe 5% of their blood) by drinking too much, getting into drunken car accidents, getting into bar brawls, and then turn around and blame the Irish.

 

Because the Eighteenth is my Birthday!!

Happy early birthday, kaja!

 

His record would have either been grander or destroyed had he lived past the Ides since he had been planning a campaign against the proven Parthian military. Actually, it would be interesting to know how such a protracted campaign commanded by a many Caesar would have turned out...

 

Well, according to Rome: Total War, once I have an empire the size of Caesasr's I can roll over any faction..err.. nation.. in under 10 years . Heh, heh, heh.

Yes, and every time I play Axis & Allies as the Axis, I somehow win at this world domination business.

 

well, now I am confused, but that may be just because I am just now waking up So, anyway, Happy St. Patricks Day

Yeah, let's not talk about that...it seems that days are confused inside that piece of misfiring organ I call my brain. Apparently I thought yesterday (16 March) was the 15th and, thus, the Ides of March, and--for some other strange reason--I also thought it was St. Patrick's Day... As it turns out, I was incorrect on both counts and got the skin pinched off me today for wearing nothing green.

[Paul]

SOCL, some of us who celebrate St. Patrick's Day are closer than 5% Irish. My Grandfathers on both sides of my family came over "on the boat" so to speak. I do celebrate-but do not drive drunk anymore (when I was younger I did a few times). Please don't think that all Irish Americans are trouble makers. No insult intended.-Grand Moff Paul Conway

[SOCL]

SOCL, some of us who celebrate St. Patrick's Day are closer than 5% Irish. My Grandfathers on both sides of my family came over "on the boat" so to speak. I do celebrate-but do not drive drunk anymore (when I was younger I did a few times). Please don't think that all Irish Americans are trouble makers. No insult intended.-Grand Moff Paul Conway

I knew someone would say something, but no worries, dude, I didn't mean any harm. I was only making fun of those people who say they're Irish, yet they've related through their cousin's uncle's brother's aunt's grandfather's sheep herder...it was meant as a joke and not to be offensive to real Irish folks.

 

 

EDIT: After some consideration, I thought I would clear something up. I have nothing against the Irish and actually admire them. Additionally, the comment I made above was to make fun of the people who claim they are Irish, but are not whatsoever, it was in no way meant against any who is Irish. Further, when I talked about how people get into drunken brawls and then blame it on the Irish, I was ridiculing people I know who are A) Not Irish, B) Go out and drink a TONNE because of St. Patrick's Day, C) Get into druken brawls or car accidents, and D) Blame their stupidity on the Irish, an unwarranted blame I do not agree with in any way. The post I made above was simply to ridicule those people who use St. Patrick's Day as an excuse to be stupid, not to ridicule the Irish or Irish-related. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[Jahled]

That makes sense to me! Same this side of the water...