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Old 10-25-2007, 03:52 AM   #61
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Sooner or later, it will all appear on http://www.ilovebacon.com/home/index.shtml
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Old 10-25-2007, 09:17 AM   #62
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My fave: What would bacon do?
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Old 10-25-2007, 09:42 AM   #63
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yes but have you considered the weight of this question?

what WOULD bacon do?

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Old 10-25-2007, 10:44 AM   #64
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Ubernerd status will be conferred upon whoever guesses the identity of this person:
Clue : still related to bacon.
Since interest has rapidly waned, I'll tell you that the gentleman in question is:
Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), quaestor, aedile, praetor, and finally consul of Rome.
Also known as Cato the Elder and Cato the Censor, and sometimes as Cato the uptight grumpy frustrated puritanical bastard with a huge chip on his shoulder.
His middle name is indeed Porcius, which translates roughly as Piggy, and which was a respectable name back then. Yep, Mark Piggy Cato. No wonder he was grumpy.
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Old 10-25-2007, 03:17 PM   #65
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"...Also, I think Carthage should be destroyed." --Cato the Elder, who after visiting the city made it a habit to end all his speeches to the Senate with this phrase.

That's a close paraphrase of something in the cookie file. It's one of my favorites.
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Old 10-25-2007, 08:22 PM   #66
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so this dude would say this at the end of every speech regardless?

what did he have against Carthage?
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Old 10-25-2007, 08:28 PM   #67
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I think it was a bit of a den of hedonism, maybe like Las Vegas or New Orleans.
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Old 10-25-2007, 08:35 PM   #68
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From wiki: Hiero's intervention had placed Carthage's military forces directly across the narrow channel of water that separated Sicily from Italy. Moreover, the presence of the Carthaginian fleet gave them effective control over this channel, the Strait of Messina, and demonstrated a clear and present danger to nearby Rome and her interests.

As a result, the Roman Assembly, although reluctant to ally with a band of mercenaries, sent an expeditionary force to return control of Messana to the Mamertines.

The Roman attack on the Carthaginian forces at Messana triggered the first of the Punic Wars. Over the course of the next century, these three major conflicts between Rome and Carthage would determine the course of Western civilization. The wars included a Carthaginian invasion led by Hannibal, which nearly prevented the rise of the Roman Empire.

Shortly after the First Punic War, Carthage faced a major mercenary revolt which changed the internal political landscape of Carthage (bringing the Barcid family to prominence), and affected Carthage's international standing, as Rome used the events of the war to base a claim by which it seized Sardinia and Corsica.
A hundred years of conflict with the rival regional power. The den of hedonism thing was one of the justifications for wreaking utter destruction upon a defeated enemy, destruction designed primarily to ensure that they were never going to be an enemy again.
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Old 10-25-2007, 08:45 PM   #69
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you guys sure know your loosely related to bacon information..

ha! "bacon information" sounds like a hip new phrase to me
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Old 10-25-2007, 08:48 PM   #70
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@ Zen,

fuckadoodle doo, I thought that looked like Cato, but had forgotten the Piggy bit.

Very good. I am impressed. *looks suitably impressed*
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Old 10-25-2007, 10:33 PM   #71
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ha! "bacon information" sounds like a hip new phrase to me
Bacomation?
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Old 10-25-2007, 11:01 PM   #72
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exactly!

we all need a little bacamation and once i figure out how to slip it into some sort of compulsory curriculum, i will rule the bacon world
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Old 10-26-2007, 01:24 AM   #73
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A photo of me and some Canadian Bacon !

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Old 10-26-2007, 01:26 AM   #74
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I just noticed that guy was wearing my sister-in-laws pants !
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Old 10-26-2007, 08:52 AM   #75
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A hundred years of conflict with the rival regional power. The den of hedonism thing was one of the justifications for wreaking utter destruction upon a defeated enemy, destruction designed primarily to ensure that they were never going to be an enemy again.
I thought the rationale was that Carthage had WMD. Bacomundo!
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