This site has been set up to share thoughts and photographs with friends and relatives regarding Peter. This is a work in progress and will change and improve as time goes on. Our thoughts and ideas are, just that, ours. They may or may not agree with Peter's, but that's what makes the world go around (and seems to be an endless source of enjoyment). If your not going to respect Peter's opinions, than please continue reading. He is a conservative in every sense of the word. He feels that a civilized society cannot function without rules and regulations, rights and obligations. Letting the past guide us keeps our society from falling into chaos. Keeping the things that work, to allow for order and freedom, freedom for all, not just the special interest groups. Peter has come to realize that life is short. We should tell the people that we love that we love them as often as possible. One never knows when this may be ones last opportunity to do so. By the way, we will all be watching what is said, not doubt even his mother may very well be reading this. And YES, please wear your shoes into the Parlor!
posted by Mike Dubuc | 8:14 AM
13 Comments:
Mikey, your newest is divine. Love the potato!
There's nothing like a limerick on a Friday afternoon! Xerxes, which way to the Pan-Hellenic challenge?
Do I take a left at Mt. Olympus, or a right at the Oracle of Delphi???
Three cheers for Mikey Dubuc!
I will raise a toast to him on Sunday!
(love the other poem too Xerxes)
Mighty Ajax and I will await you on the field.
Hey Zerks sees, I heard the last battle you were at you got caught in the crapper!
Wow, things seem to have taken a rather lyrical turn around here--and Pedro’s not even involved! (directly or indirectly as the brunt)
Joe, I’m afraid your invoking of Ajax is a bit anachronistic. Ajax (famous warrior at the Battle of Troy [c. 1200BC] in the Iliad) would have died roughly 700 years before the Battle of Thermopylae (c. 500BC?). Unless you have his skeleton… Anyway, there is an awful lot of blobber on blobber crime going on around here. Who is this masked Persian anyway?
Have to give kudos for expanding our horizons to haiku, though!
Donny M, dear lad, I used Ajax as a sort of hand grenade cover. Ajax was easy to use(I was drawing a blank). There were several demi-gods/heroes named Ajax(there frequently, but not always is a surname to distinguish them, but the Greeks don't seem to mind the mushing of characters) in the Classical Greek Mythos. They fortunately span some time and locations. I haven't had time to look it up and confirm my thoughts, but I think Thermopolae was a sea battle anyway, so my use of "field" was inappropriate I think, anyway. So, when stuck in a corner in an intellectual debate with a Classisist, you can ususally pull the pin on "Ajax" and be safe(not so with Hector).
Fair enough. Thermopylae was not a sea battle, though. It is perhaps the most famous 'mis-match' battle ever fought in history. It was in a mountain pass where Leonidas (sp?) and a few hundred Spartan hoplites withheld the huge (reputedly hundreds of thousands) army of Xerxes (not this ‘Malevolent’ character—no offense Xerx) including his famous elite guard, the Immortals. (They were thought to be invincible.) It was a hopeless cause meant only to buy Athens some time to build up their fleet and evacuate before the city was sacked. The Greeks were sold out by one of their own who showed the Persians a small path around the Greek positions. (I suspect this is the source of the quip to ‘watch behind you’.) They were subsequently flanked and defeated. Supposedly no one surrendered, but all fought to the death. Xerxes was pretty impressed, though upset at the delay. He did sack Athens, but eventually had to return to Asia Minor because the Athenian fleet had gained decisive control of the sea and he could no longer support his huge army. History would have been very different if he were able to roll all the way through Greece. No one could withstand his army, but its very scope was its weakness. Just think—Alexander was not to be born for another hundred years or so!
I think I had to write a paper on this in high school or something, but none-the-less the history of ancient Greece (and military history in general) has always fascinated me.
It is all coming back to me now. Thanks for the refresher. Those crazy Spartans! Hey If you like Ancient Military History-I've got some books for you. Most of them are as dry as Agamemnon's bones, but it's good stuff none the less.
One Potato,
Two Potato,
Three Potato,
Four...
Hey-he counts better than you spell.
I like my meat rare.
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