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#114322 - 10/25/03 01:50 AM Re: Fame
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#114323 - 10/27/03 06:07 AM Re: Fame
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Ah yes, old "Carthago delenda est" himself. Bumptious, conservative to a fault and as full of Roman gravitas as any modern prig ...

And the grandson wasn't much better, either!


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#114324 - 10/27/03 08:50 AM Re: Fame
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I suspect you're thinking of his great-grandson: Cato the Younger, die-hard (quite literally) opponent of Julius Caesar.

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#114325 - 10/27/03 01:45 PM Re: Fame
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Yeah, yeah. Cato the Toddler. Waddever. It was all a bit before my time. Bruce Willis would have approved, n'est-ce pas? Cato II died hard, and with a vengeance!


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#114326 - 10/28/03 04:58 AM Re: Fame
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*wonders what it would be like to spend the rest of eternity with an obelisk crushing one's skull*

*makes a mental note to ask Joan how painful her last bar-b-q was to see if it would compare*




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