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[Weedpacket]

Go me 😉

[bpat1434]

only you would write it like that........

[Weedpacket]

And only because I can't write superscripts.

[NogDog]

When I first saw it, I figured it was one of those geek acronyms I wasn't familiar with, the sort where some/all letters are replaced with numbers/symbols ("1<<14" == "ILLIA"?). Took me awhile to think of the "<<" operator.

[Weedpacket]

Hmm.. put a 'D' on the end of that and it would be a far more interesting word...

[bpat1434]

Because of this?

[NogDog]

bpat1434 wrote:

Because of this?

Well, for those of us with a more classical education, it would be "interesting" with the "D" on the end if you also got rid of one of the "<". Then we might have to start thinking about the source of a lot of the Trojan Horse viruses on the 'net. :p

[Weedpacket]

Yeah, but honestly, would you read "Weedpacket's Iliad"? I mean, there haven't even been any chase scenes in it yet, let alone battles.

[bpat1434]

Interesting you bring that up... I'm taking a classical mythology class now.... a butt-load of names and some weird family trees.... Don't have to read the Iliad but do have to read some stories from Ovid.

[NogDog]

Just to show you how weird I am, I recently read the Gilgamesh epic just for fun. Well, maybe not for fun, but just because I wanted to, not because I had to. I even did the same thing with "The Song of Roland" a couple years ago. (I tried to do the same with "Don Quixote", but it was just too long and slow for me. The bookmark is still at about 20% of the way through, and hasn't moved for at least a couple years. 🙂 )

[Weedpacket]

bpat1434 wrote:

Don't have to read the Iliad

Now there's a buttload of names - easily more than five hundred. Most of them are just spear-carriers, though, who are only kept around to be killed by the main characters (They spend the rest of the time standing outside the door, waiting for their master to shout "Guards! Guards!". This post is dedicated to them.)

NogDog wrote:

I recently read the Gilgamesh epic just for fun.

Basically, the oldest surviving work of fiction, that. On a smaller scale, Beowulf is basically the oldest work of English literature, so you might want to add that to the list (not because of the film). Okay, I say "English", but really it wasn't English but another language of the same name.

[NogDog]

Weedpacket wrote:

Now there's a buttload of names - easily more than five hundred. Most of them are just spear-carriers, though, who are only kept around to be killed by the main characters (They spend the rest of the time standing outside the door, waiting for their master to shout "Guards! Guards!". This post is dedicated to them.)

LOL - my first experience of the Discworld. 🙂

Basically, the oldest surviving work of fiction, that. On a smaller scale, Beowulf is basically the oldest work of English literature, so you might want to add that to the list (not because of the film). Okay, I say "English", but really it wasn't English but another language of the same name.

Beowulf was one I had to read for some English course or other. Foggy recollection of it now, but I don't recall being blown away by it. But that could simply be a symptom of automatically not liking something a teacher says I have to read. :rolleyes:

I guess of the various "classics" I've read, I liked "The Song of Roland" best, followed by "The Odyssey". One of these days though I think I'd like to revisit "The Canterbury Tales", as I just sort of skimmed through it for whatever course required it at the time, not giving myself a chance to appreciate it, just trying to pass the upcoming test. And maybe some day - if I live long enough - I'll finish Don Quixote. 🙂

[bpat1434]

Ah... Don Quixote De La Mancha.... (or some perverse spelling of that sort).... All I need to know about that book, I learned by watching Wishbone!!! Interestingly enough, as I sat through my Classic Mythology course this morning, we were talking about Odysseus and Homor's "The Odyssey" and the "trials" that Odysseus had to endure to get home after the Trojan war. The whole time I'm picturing the damn Jack Russell Terrier doing all these things, then finally shooting the arrow through the rings (which in Wishbone were axes with square holes).

Wishbone took some creative liberties with the stories, but the plot was just the same..... Gotta love PBS

[NogDog]

Seems like whenever I think of Odysseus sailing all around the Mediterranean trying to get home, I usually start flashing back to the scenes from the 1963 "Jason and the Argonauts" movie (with all those wonderful Ray Harryhausen stop-motion miniatures special effects). Then I get the two stories jumbled up in my head and can't remember who did what, except that Odysseus was the only one who could shoot his bow, and Jason was the one who got the Golden Fleece. 🙂

[bpat1434]

Hahahahaha.... You should watch the movie "Medea" a 1969 video by an Italian (it has english subtitles). It's the story of Jason and the Argonauts 😉