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[MIflyer]

Okay, so what does that big tank in my garage that I paid $500 for do?

Wouldn't it be fun to paint up some water towers to look like the Martian Tripods from War of the Worlds?

 

[at6]

Well they do say a committee of one gets things done

I think that was Napolean.

Was that before or after he blew his Bonaparte?

 

[don4331]

 

[Greg Boeser]

By the way, has anyone thought of shipping surplus Florida gators to the Rio Grande?

PETA would have a fit. You can't make gators eat Mexican food. You'd probably make them fly coach, too.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Wouldn't it be fun to paint up some water towers to look like the Martian Tripods from War of the Worlds?

I'm in!

 

[Greg Boeser]

 

[at6]

Was looking at earlier posts attacking Adler. Our moderators are working their asses off for free to keep our forum on an even keel. Would it kill us to show a bit more respect and appreciation for their hard work?

 

[Snautzer01]

 

[Snautzer01]

 

[Snautzer01]

 

[MiTasol]

 

[Airframes]

 

[syscom3]

 

[Snautzer01]

 

[MIflyer]

Another giveaway is "Fabrique in Estates Unions"

 

[Wurger]

 

[cherry blossom]

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It was a real problem for historians. Here is how Thucydides tries to give the exact date for the start of the Peloponnesian War:

The thirty years' truce which was entered into after the conquest of Euboea lasted fourteen years. In the fifteenth, in the forty-eighth year of the priestess-ship of Chrysis at Argos, in the ephorate of Aenesias at Sparta, in the last month but two of the archonship of Pythodorus at Athens, and six months after the battle of Potidaea, just at the beginning of spring, a Theban force a little over three hundred strong, under the command of their Boeotarchs, Pythangelus, son of Phyleides, and Diemporus, son of Onetorides, about the first watch of the night, made an armed entry into Plataea, a town of Boeotia in alliance with Athens.

 

[WARSPITER]

I was right with you up until "The thirty years".....

 

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