Re: Chez Watt Re: OT: Holocaust denier get three years jail.

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:45:31 GMT, "Deadrat" <ephemera1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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"John Wilkins" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dtearh$141v$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Deadrat wrote:
"Cyde Weys" <cydeweys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sayeth John Wilkins:

unrestrained_hand@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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Remember; when it comes to historical revisionism, one man's Mede is
another man's Persian.
If that is original, I am unable to strangle you for clapping. If it's
not, I am jealous that I didn't steal it first.
Would you mind explaining it? I don't know who Mede is and Persian is an
ethnicity ... is this another one of your puns?

Oh, you bet. The Medes and Persians were two ancient peoples from the area
that's Iran today. They were antagonists but eventually were united in one kingdom
by Cyrus the Great. This about 2500 ago. Since in English 'Mede' sounds like 'meat'
and 'Persian' sounds somewhat like 'poison,' the saying becomes a pun on the
saying 'One man's meat is another man's poison.'

Way to stomp on the subtle interplays, dude...

Ooops! Sorry. I should have posted the usual disclaimer that
an explanation takes all the fun out of it. But if he didn't know
his Assyrian from Holofernes in the first place, there wasn't
much there to take the fun out of, eh?

You do tend to babyl on. . .

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the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger." -- Hermann Goering

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