Bacon!....wtf?

[thealphajerk]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Next Trivia Question:
Do either AlphaJerk or Zengum ever sleep?

haha
i don't know about you but i have the chronic fatigue so i don't sleep much actually, well i do but i keep strange hours is all.

[BigV]

Game over

Did I mention they're just down the street?

I can walk in any time I like, and casually stroll up and down the meat aisle, no refrigeration required, natch, and make my selectionS at my leisure.

I love this town.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by BigV

Game over

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My fave: What would bacon do?

[thealphajerk]

yes but have you considered the weight of this question?

what WOULD bacon do?

[thealphajerk]

holy fucking shitballs!!!!
it's like a novelty meat paradise..
ok you would win, if it weren't for the lack of meat suits and the like.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Sooner or later, it will all appear on http://www.ilovebacon.com/home/index.shtml

[Clodfobble]

"...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.

[thealphajerk]

so this dude would say this at the end of every speech regardless?

what did he have against Carthage?

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by thealphajerk

so this dude would say this at the end of every speech regardless?

what did he have against Carthage?

Carthago est delenda! Carthage must be destroyed!
Yep, at the end of every speech.

There were three Punic (Rome V Carthage) wars: 264-241, 218-201 and 149-146.
Cato being born in 234, he was 18 when the second started. In this war Hannibal (Carthage) occupied Italy for 16 years, slaughtering people and causing havoc, but was never able to take Rome. Cato, naturally a pretty disagreeable chap, was thoroughly pissed. Consumed by hatred, much as Hitler was consumed by hatred during the bad times in Germany from 1914-33. (Quirks exception, please.)
Anyway, long after the second war ended, Carthage slowly recovered, and Cato was furious that they should be happy and prosperous. The romans found excuses - remarkably similar to WMD - to make war again. War, siege and victory followed, and in those days they had no qualms about finishing off a foe without leaving an "insurgency". Of about 500,000 people, about 450,000 were slaughtered, the rest sold as slaves, the city destroyed, and the ground plowed with salt.
Class dismissed.

PS: since you're in the middle of an election campaign, AlphaJ, you must surely be hearing all the bacomation you could want, with all the pork barreling going on.

[be-bop]

This thread is just too fricken weird

[thealphajerk]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

PS: since you're in the middle of an election campaign, AlphaJ, you must surely be hearing all the bacomation you could want, with all the pork barreling going on.

this guy sounds like one tough mother fucker...
and thank you i feel as though i have stopped to re fuel at the the bacomation station and am filled the brim with girlish glee.. in the form of bacon information that is..

pork barreling .. i like it

p.s. what the fuck am i going on about again?

[smurfalicious]

From YBNBY, best heart attack ever.

"You can improve almost any food by wrapping it in bacon. It’s the American way. Bacon-Wrapped Turkey is becoming quite popular. Here’s the recipe, with a video."

[Clodfobble]

I think it was a bit of a den of hedonism, maybe like Las Vegas or New Orleans.

[DanaC]

Or....

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.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Or....

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!