[grey_whiskers]

Anonymity on the net is a good thing, unless one wants to make sure one's group is free from conspiratorial totalitarian moles.

Cheers!

[freedumb2003]

"Thundercleese approves..."

[grey_whiskers]

Polycrates wanna cracker birdcage *PING*...

By the way, this is either my 999^th or 1000^th thread.

Cheers!

[tumblindice]

Obama has the wolfish look of Alcibiades but keep in mind that the Four Hundred took power during the war and a plague, and didn’t last long at all.
After the fleet got involved they were soon replaced by a more moderate oligarchy, the Five Thousand. That group lasted about ten years and democracy was restored in 410 (?). Then Pericles, the `School of Athens’ and the Athenians were pretty much it until the new kids on the block, the Womans moved on them.
Then they were pretty much relegated to the position of England with US as:
Big Dickus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K8_jgiNqUc

So yeah, I could see some wuff sledding ahead.

[Verginius Rufus]

Thucydides probably doesn't need anonymity. He hasn't been seen alive in more than 2400 years and is generally presumed to be dead.

I don't know which edition has this as Chapter XXV. The usual numbering has this as Book VIII, chapters 66 to 68.