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I knew Alkibiades. Alkibiades was my friend.
ER — (archived)

You're no Alkibiades.

Remember the guy rowing on the upper thwart just in front and above you, the one whose farts smelled like garlic? That was me. I'm not surprised you were seasick half the time.

You got the Brittania time sequence a little off, too. First it was Celts, then Romans, then Arturius, then Anglo-Saxons, THEN came the Normans. All spread out over 700 years. Don't you recall the mnemonic...

In 1066 at Hastings,
The Normans gave the Saxons a Pasting!

Well, it's funnier in Latin.

So why are Americans so freedom loving when everyone else isn't. Are our past lives different from everyone else's? Better than everyone else's?

And while were talking Alkibiades, remember, the Sicilian Expedition was his idea, that's what finished off democracy in Athens, fighting and losing the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong enemy for the wrong reasons. All to feed his ambition and his lust for gold and power and tax cuts. And afterwards, he betrayed us and went off to live with his pals the Persians. Now do you remember me? I was Thukidedes and I wrote it all down 2500 years ago.

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