To: yarddog
Herodotus placed Xerxes army at a million. Modern historians say it might have been as few as 35,000. An understandable exaggeration, since they didn't have a word that was the equivalent of "shitload."
10 posted on
03/23/2019 5:42:11 PM PDT by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: Mr Ramsbotham
You make a good point. “shitload” and “many orders of magnitude” and “!!!!!!” are more or less interchangeable.
17 posted on
03/23/2019 7:43:32 PM PDT by
Hieronymus
("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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