Posted on 04/16/2007 7:55:19 AM PDT by bedolido
A village in south-west Ireland has won a fresh round in a battle to change its name in the Irish language back to Fort of the Harlot.
For centuries, the village known as Doon in English had been known in Irish as Dun Bleisce, or Fort of the Harlot, but the name was changed in 2003 when the Government ordered a simpler An Dun, or The Fort.
The unpopular move led to 1,000 locals signing a petition to have 'harlot' added back to the name. They were backed by local politicians and a Limerick County Council motion of support.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
“He called me a two-bit whore; so I hit him with my bag of quarters.”
(FOR THE VERY YOUNG: 2 bits = a quarter.)
How about "HA" as in HARLOT?
I’m a drunkard looking for my village. :)
Talk about a roll in the hay...
Saw that. Good show.
A few comments. Nero pulled Suetonius Paulinus out because he was too harsh with the Britons. The Romans wanted a peaceful province that paid taxes, not a desolation with no people.
I don’t hink Paulinus was responsible for the attack on Boadicea and her daughters originally.
Read about the Battle of Cannae. Hannibal did pretty much the same thing to the Romans that they did to the Celts.
You have to remember that the Celts were warriors, not professional soldiers. Under the right commander, professional soldiers always beat warriors. Sort of like comparing the Spartans to the Athenians.
If you are interested in the Roman Army and its organization, read some books By Adrian Goldsworthy. They are great.
Speaking of Limericks:
There once was a village called Dune
Whose real name was Fort of the Harlot
The Irish were peeved, change the name
back they grieved,
Our whore and our town won’t be parted
A one-whore’s town. That’s a good one. Is a village getting its whore back sort of like getting its idiot back?
> You have to remember that the Celts were warriors, not professional soldiers. Under the right commander, professional soldiers always beat warriors. Sort of like comparing the Spartans to the Athenians.
In New Zealand the Maori were (and are) warriors, and the British were professional soldiers. The Maori were never decisively beaten.
Neither were the Seminoles.
But these are exceptions to a general rule.
Warriors fight as individuals for personal glory or defense. They lack the kind of discipline and training that makes them effective opponents in regular battlefield situations. Had the Iceni resorted to guerilla warfare, they might have had a better chance against the Romans, but their society was not structured in usch a way to allow that. They may have been poorly organized and ill-disciplined, but they weren’t savages. They lived in villages and relied on crops and domestic animals for survival. Fighting an effective guerilla war against an enemy as efficient and ruthless as the Romans in such a situation would have been dead from the start.
Smarter move would have to become Romanized themselves and exploit the system to their own best advantage.
American Indians like the Apaches were perhaps the best guerilla fighters and warriors that ever existed. In the end, they were no match for a modern military force.
Actually it’s more important. Which would you rather get back, a whore who’s so good the town is named for her or an idiot?
I KNOW WHAT LINE I’M GONNA BE IN. That long one.
Fury over plan to relocate historic statue — Locals want faces of Boa to stay on island
Belfast Telegraph | Tuesday, April 17, 2007 | Linda McKee
Posted on 04/21/2007 3:38:52 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
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