On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Jim Lux wrote:
But seriously, in response to an earlier query...
Seriously. Right...:-)
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine,
public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health,
what have the Romans ever done for us?
My favorite Reagan near-quote (can't google up the original text, which
doubtless his supporters wished quietly forgotten, along with his
assertion that Evolution was "only a theory" and maybe wrong):
"publicly funded research never came up with anything''.
But I digress, ever more off topic. Sorry.
But of all things, remember that it's not meant to be taken literally, it's a
general endorsement of all manufacturers of dairy products.
And, that the verb takes the imperative, and it's "motion towards" so the
noun takes the locative, so it's Romani ite domum.
Or (my new favorite quote, which I hope to learn in the original language),
as the namesake of this list said, upon discovering that some fool had stolen
a piece of treasure from a dragon's horde, thereby annoying the dragon and
disrupting 50 years of peace, "There's only one thing to do, bring me my
sword" {sorry, my paraphrase isn't as good as Seamus Heaney's translation,
but you get the idea}
Sancho! My lance!
But >>are<< pigeons happy? If not, are they sad? Do pigeons have
Buddha nature? We've now spent an entire dinner hour at my table
discussing the issue. Any thoughts?
rgb
(P.S. -- I was just kidding about the pigeons... too off topic. Instead
let's try "can pigeons solve NP-complete problems in P time in their
heads?". That's more on-topic...:-)
--
Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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