To: BGHater
My great, great, great, great, grandfather was Jerome Bonaparte, the youngest brother to Napoleon. I guess he would have been referred to in his time by Jerome's children as Uncle Nap. 8-)
3 posted on
06/11/2007 9:59:10 AM PDT by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: edcoil
Shame that Kubrick never got to make that movie. Too expensive, they told him.
To: edcoil
Well, I believe that Napoleon, traced to its Romance roots, means “lion’s mane,” so linguistically you’d be justified in calling him “nappy” and it would have meaning also in the Imusian sense.
21 posted on
06/11/2007 11:04:35 AM PDT by
Erasmus
(My simplifying explanation had the annoyng side effect of making the subject hopelessly complex.)
To: edcoil
Joseph Bonaparte (former King of Spain during the occupation) lived (briefly) in Bordentown, NJ, nine miles down the road from me
35 posted on
06/11/2007 8:10:20 PM PDT by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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