IN THE MEME TIME!: Buffoon Edition
Lots goin on this week from Justin T's cast of characters he pretends to be, to Beto's Buffoonery, joey and corn pop. Dems Debates, liberal lunacy and who could forget climate change.
Have a laugh on me,
Carl
Have a laugh on me,
Carl
And who makes memes out of Jonny Quest? That was a classic from my childhood!
At Thermopylae, 300 Spartans under Leonidas and allies held the pass for three days against a massive Persian army.
When the Persian king Xerxes asked the Spartans to drop their weapons, the reply from Leonidas was
μολων λαβε
'molōn labe'
'come and get them'.
A traitor led a Persian force via the Anopaia path over the mountains, to the rear of the Spartans.
The three days was sufficient for the Greek city states to unite.
Persia was defeated at Plataea and at sea at Salamis.
The course of history was changed.
A laconic phrase may be used for efficiency (as in military jargon), for emphasis, for philosophical reasons (especially among thinkers who believe in minimalism, such as Stoics), or to deflate a pompous interlocutor.
A prominent example involves Philip II of Macedon. After invading southern Greece and receiving the submission of other key city-states, he turned his attention to Sparta and asked menacingly whether he should come as friend or foe. The reply was "Neither."
Losing patience, he sent the message:
You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city.
The Spartan ephors again replied with a single word:
If.
The Spartan Soldiers were pedophiles.
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Oh, when the 300 version of Kimg Leonidas mentioned "those Athenians and their boy lovers" me dino was thinking about the pot calling the kettle black.
The pass, a narrow slip of land between mountain and sea, suitable for defending by a few hundred trained motivated and heavily armored force.
But pictures of it today show it wider than than you may imagine.
The sea level has dropped. (!)
And, the origin of another well used expression
(I cannot track this story, someone may assist?)
when Leonidas was captured his body was decapitated and mutilated on the orders of the Persian general. When the Greeks got their act together that general was captured. There was a clamor for like-for-like retribution.
The Greek general said, "No, we are not barbarians".
You are right about the armor the Greeks wore. In Homer they were always described as the "well grieved Achaeans". Grieves refers to armor and it was that armor that made the phalanx so formidable in its day.
Unlike 300, The 300 Spartans totally omitted the 500 warriors that came from another city state to help out. What was left of the 500 was gracefully allowed to get lost before what was left of the 300 made their last stand beneath a storm of arrows.
A brief peek of what Xerxes likely looked like is included in The 300 Spartans trailer~~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncviq...
I have the 1962 "The 300 Spartans" in my movie library. I first saw it back near when it first came out (I was 10 in '62). It's still a good movie to watch today in spite of it being "dated" as action movies go. Movies like that sparked my lifelong interest in history. Not that I'm a "dyed-in-the-wool" history buff, but I figure I have a greater interest than the average bear.
Edit add: I've been collecting some of those old movies for my library because so many of them are better than the crap being produced today (especially remakes with added PC propaganda). I recently acquired "The Vikings" with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis. Good flick! Watched "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" (again) the other night.
Rented Rise from Netflix out of sheer curiosity. 300 was bloody but Rise way overdid it. Early on a man got socked in the face and blood splashed all over the place. Me dino was saying, "Aw, c'mon!" at the sight.
At the end a vengeful queen for a Spartan widow was hopping from Persian ship to Persian ship swinging a sword as expertly as any Spartan warrior.
"Aw, c'mon! AW, C'MON!"
Gave it one star for hating it.
"Aw, c'mon! AW, C'MON!"
If I had a buck for all the times I've said that regarding the same type of stuff in many other today movies, I'd have a sizeable sum to spend here in my retirement, LOL!
Love the original The Magnificent Seven and enjoyed the Chris rides again sequels to a lesser degree. But that recent remake sucks for all the unbelievable fancy trick shots. Saw the whole thing but now realize I can hardly remember any of that tripe. Guess me fragile dino mind just plain doesn't want to.
You got me thinking, Dino! Maybe tonight I'll watch "A Fistful of Dollars". Or maybe "A Few Dollars More"...
"Fistful" got sued by copying "Yojimbo" by famous Jap director Kowa-something for giving him no credit. Kowa-something also made Seven Samurai (got credit for The Magnificent Seven's story) and Throne Of Blood (guess Kowa-etc. gave Shakespeare credit for Macbeth).
Sergio Leone got off easy for only giving up money his Fistful made in Japan.
TGTB&TU had to be a prequel if about the touted Man With No Name whose name was 1. Joe 2. Manco and 3. Blondie consecutively. Blondie and Tuco blew up a bridge with dynamite before it was invented after the Civil War. They were loading cap and ball black powder with full metal jacket rounds. The remade "conversion" revolvers came mostly after the Civil War. Believe it was Smith & Wesson who made full metal jacket dinky .32-cal. pocket pistols during Civil War but maybe only spies used 'em I dunno.
Correction, that was Kuro-something, not Kowa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne_...
Looked this up afterwards. Saw several classic Kuwo flicks.
Bought a CW Army and Navy Colt $100 each almost three decades ago. Me dino actually had black powder mailed to me! Delivered by the US Mail! Those cheap Spanish made guns fired for a little while before the hammers locked shut on both of them. Kept one for show. Gave the other to my son.
Edit add: I have CW re-enactment friends in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and California that do western battles all the time. I was amazed at how many there were. They gave me an education.
Yeah, the black powder pistols. I fired mine once, cleaned them and put them away.
PS Never heard of the Sibley Tent either--until now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibley_...
https://www.google.com/search?q=sible...
https://www.google.com/search?q=lesbo...
After that, Troy was a contested city there.
And later on Greeks and Persians squabbled over that real estate.
Finally, Darius followed by Xerxes solidly made that land part of their Persian Empire.
Then Alexander the Great took it all away by conquering all Persia.
Ownership that followed went back and forth, back and forth.
Yes, Turkey had different names way back when.
One was Gobblelania.
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And the Dem's new campaign slogan! Goodness you are really outdoing yourself this week! Love 'em all! Not a bad one in the bunch!
I do think the best of the bunch (a hard choice) is Acme Impeachment rocket!
Edit add: YES, I have fond memories of Vicks, LOL!
Oh, instead of a kid, I would have had Biden sniff the ear of an unvaccinated homeless person passed out on a sidewalk.
Biden sniffing an unvaccinated kid is superb.
Also the portrait of the democrats.
Thanks Carl.