1 posted on
07/23/2004 6:33:13 AM PDT by
presidio9
To: presidio9
Competitors had to swear an oath on a slice of boar's meat that they had not used magic to boost their performances.
Ancient equivalent to performance enhancing drugs.
Prostitutes made a year's wages in five days at the Greek spectacular.
Anyone think this has changed?
The start of the Games was pure Hollywood -- 40 chariots hurtling round the tight turns of a deadly course offering non-stop thrills and spills.
We need NASCAR in the Olympics!
2 posted on
07/23/2004 6:38:01 AM PDT by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: presidio9
3 posted on
07/23/2004 6:38:34 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
To: presidio9
"Wrestlers could tear out their opponent's intestines..."
Sounds like a little poetic license.
5 posted on
07/23/2004 6:56:17 AM PDT by
NYFriend
To: presidio9
It must be a really slow day in the news today.
6 posted on
07/23/2004 7:05:29 AM PDT by
TBarnett34
(CA Dems: "Ohmigawd! We are soooo not girly!")
To: presidio9
"For the Greeks, it was almost a social duty for adult males to take adolescent boys as lovers," Perrottet said.
An oft-repeated libel of the ancient Greeks by the Left. This assertion is made contrary to considerable information that we have documenting that the majority of ancient Greeks lived a normal family life and were not very dissimilar in this regard from modern Americans or Britons.
8 posted on
07/23/2004 10:16:36 AM PDT by
George W. Bush
(It's the Congress, stupid.)
just adding it to the GGG list of articles, not sending a general distribution. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
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12 posted on
10/01/2004 8:42:43 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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