[lilylangtree]

Too much in-breeding.

[sauropod]

Man, I hope that the Clinton Library in Little Rock doesn't engulf the whole town!

[Hodar]

Power Corrupts
Knowledge = Power
Study Hard
Be Evil

[cake_crumb]

"It’s like someone — a president or a king or you know, Bill Gates — turning St. Peter’s into their entrance hall"

Bill just didn't think of it. Hillary might, though.

Seriously though, everyone knows Caligula was insane. He threatened to make his horse a member of the nobility and had a silence decree so the horse wouldn't be disturbed. Some historians say that was just his quirky sense of humor. I say it's proof he was a psychopath and a megalomaniac.

[dighton]

One day [Caligula] was on the Oration Platform in the Market Place dressed as Jove and making a speech. “I intend shortly,” he said, “to build a city for my occupation on top of the Alps. We Gods prefer mountain-tops to unhealthy river-valleys. From the Alps I shall have a wider view of my Empire -- France, Italy, Switzerland, the Tyrol and Germany. If I see any treason hatching anywhere below me, I shall give a warning growl of thunder so! (He growled in his throat.) If the warning is disregarded I shall blast the traitor with this lightning of mine, so! (He hurled his piece of lightning at the crowd. It hit a statue and bounced off harmlessly.) A stranger in the crowd, a shoemaker from Marseilles on a sight-seeing visit to Rome, burst out laughing. Caligula had the fellow arrested and brought nearer the platform, then bending down he asked frowning: “Who do I seem to you to be?” “A big humbug,” said the shoemaker. Caligula was puzzled. “Humbug?” he repeated. “I, a humbug!” “Yes,” said the Frenchman, “I’m only a poor French shoemaker and this is my first visit to Rome. And I don’t know any better. If anyone at home did what you’re doing he’d be a big humbug.”

Caligula began to laugh too. “You poor half-wit,” he said. “Of course he would be. That’s just the difference.”

-- Robert Graves, I, Claudius.

[cake_crumb]

"But later historians and archaeologists suggested some of the stories could have been politically motivated by those who wanted to slander the slain emperor"

Yeah, musta been that nasty Roman VRWC.

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