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Post by Dianne on Oct 13, 2008 17:58:36 GMT -5
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Post by torisweettooth on Oct 14, 2008 11:34:06 GMT -5
That's funny. I like the Gerry monkeys. ;D
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Post by Dianne on Oct 14, 2008 13:02:55 GMT -5
I like the weird Gerry pidgeon...That is just creepy.....HA!!!!
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Post by torisweettooth on Oct 14, 2008 16:42:48 GMT -5
(shivers) sooo bag over head or lights just off.  |
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Post by sassenach on Oct 14, 2008 16:58:52 GMT -5
Hmmmm...I never got that "Leonidas" thing about Gerard.....
I mean he was a great Leonidas, yet for me, Leonidas hasn't Gerard's face.....
So i just can't see anything actually funny about "This is Sparta: To me the movie was epic( too epic) macho ( too macho) and certainly sentimental towards the end ( i cried my eyes out) . Can found funny the way men got obseseed with it and start mimicing Leonidas, yet i can't find funny Leonidas himsef in Gerard's face.....too tragic a figure to be funny...
*said she, feeling as she just turned off the party !!!
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Post by Dianne on Oct 14, 2008 18:17:16 GMT -5
Hmmmm...I never got that "Leonidas" thing about Gerard..... I mean he was a great Leonidas, yet for me, Leonidas hasn't Gerard's face..... So i just can't see anything actually funny about "This is Sparta: To me the movie was epic( too epic) macho ( too macho) and certainly sentimental towards the end ( i cried my eyes out) . Can found funny the way men got obseseed with it and start mimicing Leonidas, yet i can't find funny Leonidas himsef in Gerard's face.....too tragic a figure to be funny... *said she, feeling as she just turned off the party !!! Awe that's okay...  |
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Post by torisweettooth on Oct 16, 2008 10:00:08 GMT -5
Hmmmm...I never got that "Leonidas" thing about Gerard..... I mean he was a great Leonidas, yet for me, Leonidas hasn't Gerard's face..... So i just can't see anything actually funny about "This is Sparta: To me the movie was epic( too epic) macho ( too macho) and certainly sentimental towards the end ( i cried my eyes out) . Can found funny the way men got obseseed with it and start mimicing Leonidas, yet i can't find funny Leonidas himsef in Gerard's face.....too tragic a figure to be funny... *said she, feeling as she just turned off the party !!! Okay I get that. The only (ONLY) funny Leonidas I thought was the apple scene. [He takes another bite of apple, as the Captain notices a Persian soldier, still alive] King Leonidas: Besides, there's no reason we can't be civil, is there? I laughed becuase his mouth was full and then the Captian killed the man. It was the best. ;D |
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Post by Dianne on Oct 16, 2008 14:38:51 GMT -5
Hmmmm...I never got that "Leonidas" thing about Gerard..... I mean he was a great Leonidas, yet for me, Leonidas hasn't Gerard's face..... So i just can't see anything actually funny about "This is Sparta: To me the movie was epic( too epic) macho ( too macho) and certainly sentimental towards the end ( i cried my eyes out) . Can found funny the way men got obseseed with it and start mimicing Leonidas, yet i can't find funny Leonidas himsef in Gerard's face.....too tragic a figure to be funny... *said she, feeling as she just turned off the party !!! Okay I get that. The only (ONLY) funny Leonidas I thought was the apple scene. [He takes another bite of apple, as the Captain notices a Persian soldier, still alive] King Leonidas: Besides, there's no reason we can't be civil, is there? I laughed becuase his mouth was full and then the Captian killed the man. It was the best. ;D HA! I know he ate the apple like he was at a picnic!!! HA!!! |
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Post by Leppardlady on Oct 17, 2008 21:55:33 GMT -5
Hmmmm...I never got that "Leonidas" thing about Gerard..... I mean he was a great Leonidas, yet for me, Leonidas hasn't Gerard's face..... So i just can't see anything actually funny about "This is Sparta: To me the movie was epic( too epic) macho ( too macho) and certainly sentimental towards the end ( i cried my eyes out) . Can found funny the way men got obseseed with it and start mimicing Leonidas, yet i can't find funny Leonidas himsef in Gerard's face.....too tragic a figure to be funny... *said she, feeling as she just turned off the party !!! Okay I get that. The only (ONLY) funny Leonidas I thought was the apple scene. [He takes another bite of apple, as the Captain notices a Persian soldier, still alive] King Leonidas: Besides, there's no reason we can't be civil, is there? I laughed becuase his mouth was full and then the Captian killed the man. It was the best. ;D I laughed at that scene, too. Here's all this carnage and King Leonidas is standing there eating an apple among the dead bodies like it was nothing. |
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Post by Dianne on Oct 18, 2008 6:01:46 GMT -5
It is supposed that the Spartan society wasn't so inventing in culinary stuff. In fact, Spartan soldiers had to nutrish on an unbelievably stuff, kind of soup, that it supposed to make them strong, yet it was discgusting and ... of black colour !! So, for Leonidas, a mere apple was the equivalent of .....ambrosia !!! YICK! Ha!!! Do you know Sass what the soup was made of. And that is really interesting...give us a little more Spartan trivia. ;D Note to Sass, I didn't modify our last post, I just hit the wrong button....ooops... |
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Post by sassenach on Oct 18, 2008 7:58:27 GMT -5
Well, remember Dianne, YOU asked for it.  This Spartan dish, named "Melanas zomos" ( Black juice), was basically made by pork meat, vinegar,and barley flour. They fried in saucepan meat with its fat. Then they added water till it boiled and when it comes on boiling, they poured a mixture of porc's blood and barley flour and vinegar.  In addition they had balrey bread, red wine and cheece and olives. "Melanas zomos" was notorious for NOT being tasteful at all..... Being a Spartan was really a tough job.... I remember as a child, when i was reading and been tought Greek History i never liked particular the Spartans, i was in Athenian ( Sparta's BIG rival) side.... Athens was the democracy and freedom and culture and wealth where poor Sparta was Oligarchy and restrain and lack of arts and culture and a society where money had no value.... Has anyone made the parallellism to 20th Century  !!! |
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Post by Dianne on Oct 18, 2008 17:31:17 GMT -5
Well, remember Dianne, YOU asked for it. This Spartan dish, named "Melanas zomos" ( Black juice), was basically made by pork meat, vinegar,and barley flour. They fried in saucepan meat with its fat. Then they added water till it boiled and when it comes on boiling, they poured a mixture of porc's blood and barley flour and vinegar. In addition they had balrey bread, red wine and cheece and olives. "Melanas zomos" was notorious for NOT being tasteful at all..... Being a Spartan was really a tough job.... I remember as a child, when i was reading and been tought Greek History i never liked particular the Spartans, i was in Athenian ( Sparta's BIG rival) side.... Athens was the democracy and freedom and culture and wealth where poor Sparta was Oligarchy and restrain and lack of arts and culture and a society where money had no value.... Has anyone made the parallellism to 20th Century !!! Wow that is so interesting!!! It sounds like Sparta was more of a mind set and an ideology. Sometimes those people are the most dangerous. In Sparta they were. |
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Post by sassenach on Oct 18, 2008 18:04:10 GMT -5
Everything in Sparta was about discipline and obey to rules...no matter how cruel they might be.... Remember the epigraph on the 300 collective tomb " Passer by, go tell to Spartans that we lie here , faithful to Sparta's orders"
That's how Sparta maintained its power and rule over Greek cities (even for a brief) time.... Yet, the only contibute of Sparta in Greek history is the heroic sacrifice of "300" and Leonidas.
They just couldn't go back...for a Spartan, to turn his back to enemy was consindered a fate worst than death itsef...
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Post by Dianne on Oct 19, 2008 14:34:29 GMT -5
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Post by torisweettooth on Oct 23, 2008 11:40:31 GMT -5
Well, remember Dianne, YOU asked for it. This Spartan dish, named "Melanas zomos" ( Black juice), was basically made by pork meat, vinegar,and barley flour. They fried in saucepan meat with its fat. Then they added water till it boiled and when it comes on boiling, they poured a mixture of porc's blood and barley flour and vinegar. In addition they had balrey bread, red wine and cheece and olives. "Melanas zomos" was notorious for NOT being tasteful at all..... Being a Spartan was really a tough job.... Melanas zomos...Yes I think I've had that at the Mexico prison....HA! Hey me too! I never cared for Sparta until I saw GB. My friends were all gaga for Spartans. I was like well maybe you should FIRST study up on them to know what they did and went through. Alas they are not book smart so did not follow my advice. ;D They are more rent movie instead of read book. ;D ;D |
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In addition they had balrey bread, red wine and cheece and olives. "Melanas zomos" was notorious for NOT being tasteful at all..... Being a Spartan was really a tough job.... 
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